Gerald Freedman (born June 25, 1927) is an American theatre director, librettist, and lyricist, and a college dean. June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 189 days remaining. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... A theatre director is a principal in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a play by unifying various endeavors and aspects of production. ... Libretto can also refer to a sub-notebook PC manufactured by Toshiba. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... In an educational setting, a dean is a person with significant authority . ...

Born in Lorain, Ohio, Freedman was educated at Northwestern University, where he received both BA and MA degrees. He began his career as assistant director of such projects as Bells Are Ringing, West Side Story, and Gypsy. His first credit as a Broadway director was the 1961 musical The Gay Life. Additional Broadway credits include the 1964 and 1980 revivals of West Side Story, Arthur Miller's The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972), the 1975 and 1976 productions of The Robber Bridegroom, both of which garnered him Drama Desk Award nominations as Outstanding Director of a Musical, The Grand Tour (1979) with Joel Grey, and The School for Scandal (1995) with Tony Randall. Lorain is a city located in Lorain County, Ohio. ... Northwestern University is a prestigious private, coeducational, non-sectarian research university, located in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois. ... Bachelor of Arts (B.A., BA or A.B.), from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus is an undergraduate bachelors degree awarded for either a course or a program in the liberal arts or the sciences, or both. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate (or graduate) course of one to three years in duration. ... Bells Are Ringing was a romantic comedy film was released in 1960 and was directed by Vincente Minnelli. ... For The Games song, see Westside Story (song). ... Gypsy: A Musical Fable is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. ... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist, and author. ... The Creation of the World and Other Business is a play by Arthur Miller. ... The Robber Bridegroom is a Southern fairy tale, set in a Mississippi as unexplored as any woods in the Brothers Grimm. ... Created in 1955, the Drama Desk Award was created to recognize Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway shows in addition to Broadway shows. ... The Grand Tour is a musical with a book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. ... Joel Grey (born 11 April 1932 as Joel Katz in Cleveland, Ohio, United States) is a Jewish-American stage and screen actor. ... The School for Scandal, a play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is a comedy of manners. ... Tony Randall (February 26, 1920 – May 17, 2004) was an American comic actor. ...

Freedman wrote the book and lyrics for and directed A Time for Singing, the short-lived 1961 musical adaptation of How Green Was My Valley. How Green Was My Valley is a novel of 1939, by Richard Llewellyn. ...

Freedman has served as the Artistic Director of the Great Lakes Theatre Festival. At present he is Dean of Drama at the North Carolina School of the Arts. An arts conservatory of international renown, the North Carolina School of the Arts was the first state-supported, residential school of its kind in the nation. ...

External links

• Internet Broadway Database listing
• Internet Movie Database listing