Cheryl Crawford

Cheryl Crawford (* September 24, 1902 in Akron, Ohio; † October 7, 1986 in New York City ) was an American theater director and producer.

Cheryl Crawford studied drama at Smith College in Massachusetts. After graduation, she went to New York and began in the late 1920s to work on Broadway, first as an actress. In 1931 she founded with Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg, the Group Theatre. Here began her work as a director. Your third staging for this theater collective Men in White in 1933 laid the foundation for the continued successful existence of the group and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1934. 1937 she moved back from the work as a director and began to work exclusively as a producer. First, they introduced other Group Theatre productions to financial success, then broke up but gradually from the group and self-produced Broadway successes. In 1946 she co-founded with actress Eva La Galienne the American Repertory Theatre, which attempted a repertory theater in European style as opposed to en suite played Broadway pieces to 1948 build. In this short time, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays like a musical version of Alice in Wonderland Thus arose as well.

In 1947, Cheryl Crawford, together with Elia Kazan and Robert Lewis, the famous Actors Studio in New York. Kazan and Lewis were former comrades during the time of the Group Theatres. In 1951 the Lee Strasberg added as artistic director and major drama teacher.

Selection of theater productions

List of major productions that have been produced by Cheryl Crawford for Broadway.

• Theater director
• Americans
• Born in 1902
• Died in 1986
• Woman