• JoAnne Akalaitis (born June 29, 1937, in Cicero, Illinois) is an avant-garde American theatre director and writer. She has won five Obie Awards for direction...
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  • film director Susan Seidelman, theater directors Robert Wilson and JoAnne Akalaitis, and musicians including Byrne, Bono and Michael Stipe. In the 1990s...
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    sculptor Richard Serra and his wife Nancy Graves), actors and directors (JoAnne Akalaitis, Ruth Maleczech, David Warrilow, and Lee Breuer, with whom Glass later...
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    Are Free, she continued to do experimental work with artists such as JoAnne Akalaitis and at the Public Theatre. Archived January 16, 2013, at the Wayback...
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  • including Peter Brook, Erwin Piscator, Roger Blin, Giorgio Strehler, and JoAnne Akalaitis. It has been adapted as a film and given operatic treatment. The play's...
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    in a production of four short plays by Samuel Beckett directed by JoAnne Akalaitis. Baryshnikov was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and...
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    the musical Hair in 1967. Since Papp, the theatre has been led by JoAnne Akalaitis (1991–1993), and George C. Wolfe (1993–2004), and is currently under...
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    contribution to dance. She collaborated with Lee Breuer, JoAnne Akalaitis, David Warrilow, Ruth Maleczech, Anne Bogart, Yvonne Rainer, and Barbara Dilley. Mary...
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    opposite Anthony Mackie from August 11 to 30, 2009; it was directed by JoAnne Akalaitis and produced as a part of the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park...
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  • by JoAnne Akalaitis, a Mabou Mines production American Notes – Joseph Papp Public Theater – Susan Stein Shiva Theater (1988) – directed by JoAnne Akalaitis...
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  • Liz Deschenes Alexander Soros John Ryle Chinua Achebe Andre Aciman JoAnne Akalaitis John Ashbery Artine Artinian Alfred Jules Ayer Bruce Baillie Emily...
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    portion of the film's soundtrack. Byrne also provided a soundtrack for JoAnne Akalaitis' film Dead End Kids (1986), made after a Mabou Mines theatre production...
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    several other productions: Dead End Kids: A Story of Nuclear Power by Joanne Akalaitis Main title theme for Alive from Off Center season 1 (1984) Something...
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  • May 1980 with Rick Cluchey as Hamm and Bud Thorpe as Clov. In 1984, JoAnne Akalaitis directed the play at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts...
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    Shakespeare's Cymbeline at The Public Theater under the direction of JoAnne Akalaitis. She portrayed President J.F.K.'s secretary, a central character in...
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    Theatre in San Francisco. Moscone cites as influences Joseph Papp, JoAnne Akalaitis (particularly her 1989 production of Cymbeline), Irene Lewis, Arden...
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    stage directors who have collaborated with A.R.T. include: JoAnne Akalaitis, Andrei Belgrader, Anne Bogart, Steven Bogart, Lee Breuer, Robert Brustein, Liviu...
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    former wife JoAnne Akalaitis worked on the idea on and off for three years before receiving a commission from ACT Theatre in Seattle. Akalaitis worked closely...
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  • Awards and AFI Award All the persons below play their own life roles. JoAnne Akalaitis Woody Allen Holly Critchlow Philip Glass Errol Morris Nico Muhly Godfrey...
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  • fellowship winners for 1978. Alice Adams, Deceased. Fiction: 1978. JoAnne Akalaitis, Director, New York Shakespeare Festival: 1978. Jervis B. Anderson...
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  • Mysore – pianist Samuel Adler – composer Bruce Adolphe – composer JoAnne Akalaitis – director Joseph Alessi – principal trombone of the New York Philharmonic...
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  • David Warrilow, Lee Breuer, Ruth Maleczech, JoAnne Akalaitis, and Philip Glass, at the house of Akalaitis and Glass near Mabou Mines, Nova Scotia. In...
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  • outstanding director of a play, set design, and supporting actress (JoAnne Akalaitis, George Tsypin, and Frances Conroy, respectively). The overarching...
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  • lifelong rage." Prisoner of Love was staged as a performance piece by JoAnne Akalaitis at the New York Theatre Workshop from 12 May to 25 June 1995, with...
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  • Martinez made a notable Broadway debut in In the Summer House directed by Joanne Akalaitis featuring Dianne Wiest, Frances Conroy and Liev Schreiber. Martinez...
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  • Glass' collaboration with the Mabou Mines quartet, of which he married JoAnne Akalaitis, one of its members. Glass himself decided to extract the music he...
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    improvisational progressive metal guitarist) Thom Yorke (English musician) JoAnne Akalaitis (writer/director/ Mabou Mines) Guillaume Apollinaire (writer) Antonin...
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  • (black box) in the Warehouse District Directors (Vineland Place): JoAnne Akalaitis, Kazimierz Braun, Lee Breuer, Edward Payson Call, Liviu Ciulei, Jon...
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  • Jackson (A Strange Loop); Haruna Lee (Suicide Forest) Directing: JoAnne Akalaitis (MUD/Drowning); Kenny Leon (Much Ado About Nothing); Whitney White...
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  • in JoAnne Akalaitis's anthology of six sketches titled Help Wanted "horrifyingly funny". They also said she was "especially good" in Akalaitis's Dead...
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