Playwright

Why does someone start a theater? What is its purpose? Who’s it for? Who creates it? How is it kept afloat? Why should anyone care? Also, why am I alive? What is the meaning of existence?

These were the kinds of questions that Joe Papp, who founded New York City’s free New York Shakespeare Festival and the Public Theater, asked himself throughout his career as a theatrical producer. Such questions were basic to his fiercely democratic viewpoint that not only changed American theater in the way that it staged Shakespeare, but also brought into major focus the voices of new American playwrights who had been previously minimized or ignored often due to their ethnicity and gender

Gail Merrifield

Playwright

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Sep 18, 2023

Public/Private – My Life with Joe Papp at The Public Theater: Gail Merrifield Papp in Conversation with George C Wolfe · Public Theater

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