Great North American Stage Directors Volume 3

Harvey Young is Professor of Theatre at Boston University, USA. His research on the performance and experience of race has been widely published in academic journals, profiled in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has published seven books, including Embodying Black Experience, winner of “Book of the Year” awards from the National Communication Association and the American Society for Theatre Research and, most recently, Black Theater is Black Life: An Oral History of Chicago Theater (coauthored with Mecca Zabriskie). He is the current editor of Theatre Survey.

List of Illustrations
Series Introduction, James Peck (Muhlenberg College, USA)
Acknowledgments

Introduction. Living the American Dream, Harvey Young (Boston University, USA)

Elia Kazan
1 Gadget Makes American Theatre, Harvey Young (Boston University, USA)

Jerome Robbins
2 Choreography as Directing: On Jerome Robbins, Julia Foulkes (New School, USA)
3 Jerome Robbins: A Hide-and-Seek Directorial Life, Stuart J. Hecht (Boston College, USA)

Lloyd Richards
4 Lloyd Richards in the Classroom, cfrancis blackchild (University of Miami, USA)
5 The Performative Tradition of Lloyd Richards, Everett C. Dixon (Universidad del Valle, Colombia)
6 Mentoring August: Lloyd Richards and August Wilson, Sandra G. Shannon (Howard University, USA)

Notes on Contributors
Index