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National Actors Theatre The National Actors Theatre (NAT) was a theatre company founded in 1991 by Tony Randall, whose dream it was to create such an organization. He was chairman until his death in 2004, when the theatre also subsequently closed down. At first the company was housed at the Belasco Theatre, New York, then at the nearby Lyceum Theatre, and in 2002 was based in the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University in New York City. It was the only professional theatre company housed in a university in New York City.
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Tony Randall Tony Randall (born Aryeh (Arthur) Leonard Rosenberg; February 26, 1920May 17, 2004) was an American actor, producer, and director, best known for his role as Felix Unger in the television adaptation of Neil Simon's play "The Odd Couple".
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Murray Melvin Murray Melvin (born 10 August 1932) is an English stage and film actor noted for his work with Joan Littlewood, Ken Russell and Stanley Kubrick. He is the author of two books: "The Art of Theatre Workshop" (2006) and "The Theatre Royal, A History of the Building" (2009).
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Radu Stanca National Theatre The Radu Stanca National Theatre (Romanian: "Teatrul Național "Radu Stanca" Sibiu" ) is the largest and the most important establishment of performing arts in Sibiu, Romania. Founded in 1949 as the "State Theatre of Sibiu", it was given the name of the Romanian playwright and theatre director Radu Stanca.
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Trevor Cooper Trevor "Trev" Cooper (born 21 May 1953) is an English actor.
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Tom Fleming (actor) Thomas Kelman Fleming, CVO, OBE, FRSAMD (29 June 1927 – 18 April 2010) was a Scottish actor, director, and poet, and a television and radio commentator for the BBC.
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Martin Esslin Martin Julius Esslin OBE (6 June 1918 – 24 February 2002) was a Hungarian-born English producer, dramatist, journalist, adaptor and translator, critic, academic scholar and professor of drama, best known for coining the term "Theatre of the Absurd" in his work of the same name ("Theatre of the Absurd"; 1961). This work has been called "the most influential theatrical text of the 1960s" by some reviewers.
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Nicholas Hytner Sir Nicholas Robert Hytner (born 7 May 1956) is an English theatre director, film director, and film producer. He was previously the Artistic Director of London's National Theatre. His major successes while director include "Miss Saigon", "The History Boys" and "One Man, Two Guvnors".
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Seán O'Casey Seán O'Casey ( ; Irish: "Seán Ó Cathasaigh" , ] ; born John Casey, 30 March 1880 – 18 September 1964) was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.
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Timothy West Timothy Lancaster West, CBE (born 20 October 1934), is an English film, stage and television actor.
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Nicholas Pegg Nicholas Pegg is a British actor, director and writer.
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Oliver Tobias Oliver Tobias Freitag (born 6 August 1947), known professionally as Oliver Tobias, is a Swiss-born UK-based film, stage, and television actor and director.
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Antony Sher Sir Antony Sher, KBE (born 14 June 1949) is an English actor of South African origin, a two-time Laurence Olivier Award winner and four-time nominee. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 and toured in many roles, as well as appearing on film and TV, and working as a writer and theatre director. In 2001, he starred in his cousin Ronald Harwood’s play "Mahler's Conversion", and said that the story of a composer sacrificing his faith for his career echoed his own identity struggles. Sher and his partner and collaborator Gregory Doran became one of the first gay couples to enter into a civil partnership in the UK.
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Gratien Gélinas Gratien Gélinas, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (December 8, 1909 – March 16, 1999) was a Canadian author, playwright, actor, director, producer and administrator who is considered one of the founders of modern Canadian theatre and film.
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John English (theatre director) John English, OBE, MA (13 January 1911 – 20 December 1998), was a theatre director, actor, writer and entrepreneur in Birmingham, England, and the founder of the Highbury Theatre Centre, the Midlands Arts Centre as well as being one of the founding members of the Little Theatre Guild of Great Britain.
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Val Gielgud Val Henry Gielgud (28 April 1900 – 30 November 1981) was an English actor, writer, director and broadcaster. He was a pioneer of radio drama for the BBC, and also directed the first ever drama to be produced in the newer medium of television.
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Jonathan Miller Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBE (born 21 July 1934) is an English theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humourist, and medical doctor. While training in medicine, and specialising in neurology, in the late 1950s, he first came to prominence in the early 1960s with his role in the comedy revue "Beyond the Fringe" with fellow writers and performers Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett.
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Actors Studio The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights at 432 West 44th Street in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded October 5, 1947, by Elia Kazan, Cheryl Crawford and Robert Lewis and Anna Sokolow, who provided training for actors who were members. Lee Strasberg joined later and took the helm in 1951 until his death on February 17, 1982. It is currently run by Al Pacino, Ellen Burstyn, and Harvey Keitel. The Studio is best known for its work refining and teaching method acting. The approach was originally developed by the Group Theatre in the 1930s based on the innovations of Konstantin Stanislavski. While at the Studio, actors work together to develop their skills in a private environment where they can take risks as performers without the pressure of commercial roles.
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Andrew Tighe Andrew Phillip Tighe (born 23 November 1955) is an Australian actor and theatre director.
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Michael Byrne (actor) Michael Byrne (born 7 November 1943) is an English actor noted for his roles in the National Theatre and in Hollywood films and on television.
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Michael Townsend Smith Michael Townsend Smith (born October 5, 1935) is an American man of the theater. He has worked as a playwright, director, impresario, critic, and lighting designer.
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Kenneth Spring Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Arthur Spring {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (23 October 1921 – 25 December 1997) was a British Army officer, artist and co-founder of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain.