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Alan Schneider papers
- Title
- Alan Schneider papers, 1923-1984.
- Author
- Schneider, Alan, 1917-1984.
- Supplementary Content
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Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 27 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1985-002 Box 27 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 26 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1985-002 Box 26 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 25 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1985-002 Box 25 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 24 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1985-002 Box 24 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 23 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1985-002 Box 23 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 22 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1985-002 Box 22 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 21 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1985-002 Box 21 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 20 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1985-002 Box 20 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 19 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1985-002 Box 19 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 18 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1985-002 Box 18 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 17 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1985-002 Box 17 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 16 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1985-002 Box 16 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 15 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1985-002 Box 15 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 14 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1985-002 Box 14 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 13 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1985-002 Box 13 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 12 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1985-002 Box 12 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 11 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1985-002 Box 11 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 10 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1985-002 Box 10 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 9 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1985-002 Box 9 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 8 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1985-002 Box 8 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 14.96 linear ft. (27 boxes)
- Summary
- The Alan Schneider papers consist of correspondence, clippings, programs, scripts, production materials, photographs, personal papers, plans, and administrative records and reports for a number of institutions with which Mr. Schneider was involved.
- Subject
- Schneider, Alan, 1917-1984
- Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956
- Ciulei, Liviu, 1923-2011
- Fichandler, Zelda, 1924-2016
- Guthrie, Tyrone, 1900-1971
- Ramsay, Maggy
- Tuttle, Frank
- Weller, Michael, 1942-
- Yeaton, Kelly
- Acting Company (Theatrical group)
- Arena Stage (Organization : Washington, D.C.)
- Theatrical producers and directors
- Theater > United States
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence.
- Scripts.
- Photographs.
- Programs.
- Clippings.
- Posters.
- Access (note)
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Collection is open to the public. Photocopying prohibited. Advance notice may be required.
- Source (note)
- Schneider, Eugenie
- Biography (note)
- Director Alan Schneider was born Abram Leopoldovich Schneider in Kharkov Russia on December 12, 1917 (There is some confusion surrounding the date-the true date being December 11).
- Language (note)
- The Arena Stage and Organizations series contain material in Russian.
- Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
- Finding aid available in repository and on internet.
- Call Number
- *T-Mss 1985-002
- OCLC
- NYPT04-A24
- Author
- Schneider, Alan, 1917-1984.
- Title
- Alan Schneider papers, 1923-1984.
- Restricted Access
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Access
- Collection is open to the public. Photocopying prohibited. Advance notice may be required.
- Biography
- Director Alan Schneider was born Abram Leopoldovich Schneider in Kharkov Russia on December 12, 1917 (There is some confusion surrounding the date-the true date being December 11). He arrived in New York with his parents, Leopold Victorovich Schneider and Rebecka Samilovna Malkin Schneider, both physicians, on July 4, 1923 and spent his childhood in Maryland. Mr. Schneider received a B.A. magna cum laude in political science from the University of Wisconsin in 1939 and an M.A. in Dramatic Literature from Cornell University in 1941. His first New York production was A Long Way from Home by Maxim Gorki, adapted by Randolph Goodman and Walter Carroll, which opened at Maxine Elliott's Theatre on February 8, 1948. The only director to receive a Tony Award (Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1963) and an Obie Award (The Dumb Waiter and The Collection, 1963) in the same year, Mr. Schneider directed well over one hundred works, including the original American productions of such playwrights as Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, Robert Anderson, Joe Orton, and Michael Weller.In addition to the New York theater, he was active in regional theater, especially in his association with The Acting Company and as artistic director of the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. (1951-1953, 1961-1963 and 1973). For the proposed Ithaca Festival, he served as artistic director from 1963 to 1968. Mr. Schneider received several international prizes for his work on Samuel Beckett's Film (1964). He also directed for television. He toured the U.S.S.R. in1973 with the Arena Stage production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town and was also the U.S. delegate of the International Theatre Institute that year.Mr. Schneider maintained a lifelong interest in theater education, subsequently teaching at Boston University, ca. 1970, the Juilliard Theatre Center from 1976-1979, and the University of California, San Diego where he was head of the Graduate Directing Program from 1979 to 1984. Mr. Schneider traveled extensively in his professional capacity, especially in Eastern Europe and Russia and also directed productions in England and Israel. In 1949, he received a Rockefeller Foundation grant for a study of European theater and traveled to Eastern Europe as a cultural representative for the U.S. State Department.He married Eugenie Muckle in 1953; they had a daughter, Viveca and a son, David. Alan Schneider died May 3, 1984 in London from head injuries suffered when he was hit by a motorcycle. At the time of his death, Mr. Schneider served as the president of Theatre Communications Group and had just completed the first volume of his autobiography, Entrances: An American Director's Journey, published posthumously by Viking in 1986.
- Language
- The Arena Stage and Organizations series contain material in Russian.
- Indexes
- Finding aid available in repository and on internet. http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/ead/rose/theschne
- Location of Other Archival Materials
- Alan Schneider papers; Also located at; Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Dramatists
- Added Author
- Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956.Ciulei, Liviu, 1923-2011.Fichandler, Zelda, 1924-2016.Guthrie, Tyrone, 1900-1971.Ramsay, Maggy.Tuttle, Frank.Weller, Michael, 1942- Loose ends.Weller, Michael, 1942- Moonchildren.Yeaton, Kelly.
- Research Call Number
- *T-Mss 1985-002