Jack Gelber
Playwright, Author
1932 – 2003
Who was Jack Gelber?
Jack Gelber was an American playwright best known for his 1959 drama The Connection, depicting the life of drug-addicted jazz musicians. The first great success of the Living Theatre, the play was translated into five languages and produced in ten nations. Gelber continued to work and write in New York, where he also taught writing, directing and drama as a professor, chiefly at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, where he created the MFA program in playwriting. In 1999 he received the Edward Albee Last Frontier Playwright Award in recognition of his lifetime of achievements in theatre.
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- Born
- Apr 12, 1932
Chicago - Parents
- Spouses
- Carol Westenberg
(1957/12/23 - 2003/05/09)
- Carol Westenberg
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journalism
( - 1953)
- Bachelor of Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Lived in
- Manhattan
( - 2003/05/09)
- Manhattan
- Died
- May 9, 2003
Manhattan
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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