Judith Malina (born June 4, 1926) is an American theater and film actor, writer, and director, who is one of the founders and leaders of The Living Theatre. June 4 is the 155th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (156th in leap years), with 210 days remaining. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle &#8212... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke while waiting between takes during location filming An actor or actress is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... 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. ... The Living Theatre is an American theatre company founded in 1947 and based in New York City. ...

Malina was born in Kiel, Germany, the daughter of a rabbi. In 1928 she moved with her father to New York City, where she has lived with few interruptions ever since. Kiel ( ) is a city in northern Germany and the capital of the Bundesland Schleswig-Holstein. ... Rabbi, in Judaism, means ‘teacher’, or more literally ‘great one’. The word Rabbi is derived from the Hebrew root word , rav, which in biblical Hebrew means ‘great’ or ‘distinguished (in knowledge)’. Sephardic and Yemenite Jews pronounce this word ribbī; the modern Israeli pronunciation rabbī is derived from a recent (18th... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... New York, NY redirects here. ...

Interested in acting from an early age, she began attending the New School for Social Research in 1945 to study theatre under Erwin Piscator. Malina was greatly influenced by Piscator's philosophy of theatre, which was based on Bertolt Brecht's principles of "epic theatre" but went further than Brecht in departing from traditional narrative forms, and which saw theatre as a form of political communication or agitprop—though Malina, unlike Piscator, was committed to nonviolence and anarchism. New School University is an institute of higher learning in New York City. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator, (December 17, 1893 – March 30, 1966), German theatrical director and producer who, with Bertolt Brecht, was the foremost exponent of epic theater, a genre that emphasizes the sociopolitical context rather than the emotional content or aesthetics of the play. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Epic theater, also known as theater of alienation or theater of politics, is a theater movement arising in the early to mid-20th century, inextricably linked to the German director Bertolt Brecht. ... Agitprop poster by Vladimir Mayakovsky. ... Nonviolence (or non-violence) can be both a political strategy or moral philosophy that rejects the use of violence in efforts to attain social or political change. ... Anarchism is a political philosophy or group of doctrines and attitudes centered on rejection of any form of compulsory government (cf. ...

Malina met her long-time collaborator and husband, Julian Beck, when she was 17. Beck, originally a painter, came to share her interest in political theatre, and in 1947 the two founded The Living Theatre, which they directed together until Beck's death in 1985. Malina's and Beck's marriage was as unconventional as their work: Beck was bisexual and had a male partner, and Malina was involved with a series of men. The couple had one son. Julian Beck (May 31, 1925–September 14, 1985) was an American actor, director, poet, and painter. ... Painting by Rembrandt self-portrait Detail from Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez, in which the painter portrayed himself at work For the computer graphics program, see Corel Painter. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... The Living Theatre is an American theatre company founded in 1947 and based in New York City. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

When the company ran afoul of the IRS in 1963, the theatre was seized by the government, and Malina and Beck were convicted of contempt of court. They received a five-year suspended sentence, and decided to leave the U.S. The company spent the next five years touring in Europe and creating increasingly radical works, culminating in Paradise Now, which they returned to the U.S. to present in 1968. Malina's book The Enormous Despair, part of her series of diaries, records the sense of danger and unfamiliarity she felt on returning to the U.S. in the midst of the social upheavals of the late 1960s. . The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the United States government agency that collects taxes and enforces the tax laws. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Contempt of court is a court ruling which, in the context of a court trial or hearing, deems an individual as holding contempt for the court, its process, and its invested powers. ... World map showing the location of Europe. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ...

When the main Living Theatre company disbanded in 1969, Malina and Beck continued to work together, and in 1971 they traveled with other company members to Brazil, where they were imprisoned for two months on political charges. On returning to New York, they reconstituted a new Living Theatre group. After Beck's death from cancer, company member Hanon Reznikov, who had become Malina's lover, assumed co-leadership of the company. For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1). ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday. ...

Malina's occasional film career began in 1975, when she had a small role in Dog Day Afternoon. She played larger roles in the movies The Addams Family (1991), Household Saints (1993) and in the low-budget production Nothing Really Happens (2003). She appeared in an episode of The Sopranos in 2006. Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Frank Pierson. ... The Addams Family is the creation of American cartoonist Charles Addams. ... Household Saints is a 1993 film starring Tracey Ullman, Vincent DOnofrio, Vincent DOnofrio, and Lili Taylor. ... This article is about the TV series. ...

On March 9, 2006, Judith Malina will be performing as The Princess in Witold Gombrowicz's "Operetta" at La Mama Theatre. The production is being directed by Zishan Ugurlu and is Eugene Lang College (a branch of The New School where Malina worked early on in her career in NYC) 20th Year Anniversary Production. She will celebrate her 80th birthday on June 4, 2006 with performances in Rome and Berlin taking place on May 26 and June 8. March 9 is the 68th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (69th in leap years). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Witold Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904, Małoszyce, near Kielce, Poland – July 24, 1969, Vence, near Nice, France) was a Polish novelist and dramatist active from the 1930s until the end of his life. ... The New School is an institution of higher learning in New York City, located around Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan. ... New York, New York redirects here. ...

Bibliography

• (1972) The Enormous Despair. New York: Random House.
• (1984) The Diaries of Judith Malina: 1947-1957. New York: Grove Press.

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External links

• The Living Theatre official site