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La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club is an American not-for-profit cultural organization located in the East Village section of lower Manhattan. East Village Also known as Newmyers Seven Nuts, named for its inventor Chris Newmyer, East Village is a community card poker game. ...
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Founded by Ellen Stewart in 1961, its purpose is to support and present work multi-cultural and multi-national original performance work by emerging artists. Ellen Stewart (born November 4, 1914) Founder of La MaMa Experimental Theater Club AKA Cafe La MaMa, La MaMa e. ...
Originating in a small basement on East 9th Street, the theatre now consists of three main stages and an art gallery at 74A East 4th Street and a six-story rehearsal and workshop space on Great Jones Street.
Over the years La MaMa has hosted full-time resident companies headed by Tom O'Horgan, Wilford Leach, Joel Zwick, Elizabeth Swados, and Tom Eyen, among others. It is the present home of the Great Jones Repertory Company. Tom OHorgan (born May 3, 1926) is an American theatre and film director and composer. ...
Wilford Leach (August 26, 1929 - June 18, 1988) was a Tony Award-winning American theatre director, set designer, film director, screenwriter, and college professor. ...
Joel Zwick, born January 11, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York, USA is an American director of movies and television shows. ...
American musician, director, and composer, she has received five Tony award nominations and three Obie awards for her theatrical productions both on and off Broadway. ...
Tom Eyen Tom Eyen (August 14, 1940 - May 26, 1991) was a Tony Award-winning, Grammy Award-winning, and Emmy Award-nominated playwright, lyricist, television writer, and theatre director. ...
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