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Blau, Herbert

LC control no.n 81132175
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Personal name headingBlau, Herbert
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See alsoFounded corporate body of person: Actor's Workshop (San Francisco, Calif.)
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Associated countryUnited States
Associated placeSan Francisco (Calif.) Milwaukee (Wis.) Seattle (Wash.)
Birth date1926-05-03
Death date2013-05-03
Place of birthBrownsville (New York, N.Y.)
Place of deathSeattle (Wash.)
Field of activityTheater--Production and direction English literature--Study and teaching (Higher) Comparative literature--Study and teaching (Higher) Drama--Study and teaching (Higher) Acting--Study and teaching
AffiliationUniversity of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Department of English
University of Washington. Department of English
University of Washington. School of Drama
Profession or occupationTheatrical producers and directors College teachers English teachers Drama teachers Acting teachers Authors
University and college faculty members
Found inHis The impossible theater, 1964.
His Take up the bodies, c1982: CIP t.p. (Herbert Blau) data sheet (b. 5/3/26) info. fr. publisher (Dept. of Engl., Univ. of Wisc., Milwaukee)
New York times (online), viewed May 8, 2013 (in obituary published May 7: Herbert Blau; b. May 3, 1926, Brownsville, Brooklyn; d. Friday [May 3, 2013], Seattle, aged 87; fiercely iconoclastic theater director, scholar, and theorist who staged some of the earliest productions of Beckett, Brecht, and Genet in the United States)
Wikipedia, August 18, 2017 (Herbert Blau (May 3, 1926-May 3, 2013) was an American director and theoretician of performance. He was named the Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University of Washington. Blau earned his B.Ch.E., Chemical Engineering from New York University (1947). Later, his M.A. in Drama (1949), and Ph.D., English & American Literature (1954), both from Stanford University. As co-founder (with Jules Irving) of The Actor's Workshop in San Francisco (1952-1965) and co-director of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center in New York City (1965-67), Blau introduced American audiences to avant-garde drama. In 1968, Blau was named founding provost and dean of the School of Theatre and Dance of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) where Blau led the way in designing its educational model. In 1971, after three years at CalArts, Blau formed the experimental group KRAKEN. He married actress Beatrice Manley in 1949 and they divorced in 1980. They had three children: film professor Dick Blau, Tara Gwyneth Blau, and Dr. Jonathan Blau. Blau married a second time to Kathleen Woodward and they had one daughter, Jessamyn Blau)
The Seattle times, May 6, 2013, viewed online August 18, 2017: obituaries (Herbert Blau, a major force in the development of modern American drama, died at his home in Seattle on Friday, his 87th birthday. Professor Blau was an influential theater director, author and scholar. At the University of Washington, he held several posts: professor emeritus of English and comparative literature, adjunct professor in the School of Drama and the Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor Emeritus of the Humanities. He retired from teaching in 2012. Professor Blau, who earned a doctorate in English from Stanford University, also held teaching positions at the University of Maryland and at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, before coming in 2000 to UW, where he spent the remainder of his academic career. His wife, Kathleen Woodward, also a scholar and educator, is the director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities at UW)
Associated languageeng