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Additional authors

1. Perloff, Carey
2. Winer, Linda
3. Robins, Isobel
4. Slaughter, Harriet
5. Mayleas, Ruth
6. Corwin, Betty L
7. Isaacson, Robert
8. Malone, Audra D
9. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.
10. League of Professional Theatre Women, producer.
11. City University of New York.
12. League of Professional Theatre Women, donor.
13. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), donor.

Description

1. 1 videocassette (VHS) (29 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. Carey Perloff discusses her career with Newsday critic Linda Winer. In 1992, Perloff took over as artistic director of San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater which was in debt, homeless due to a recent earthquake, and conservative. Perloff, who previously ran a 200-seat theater in New York City, rebuilt the larger ACT into a successful theater, attracting much attention for her non-traditional programs and multicultural casts. Perloff discusses her reasons for getting into the theater, running a theater as a woman able to hire women actors and directors, her opportunity in San Francisco to choose the plays she wants to stage, the importance of casting American actors instead of importing British actors for classical plays, learning how to direct from her actors, the lack of correspondence between the work being produced on Broadway and in the regional theatre, how she markets her theater, and the unique ability of women to be efficient theater professionals.

Series statement

1. Women in theatre

Alternative title

1. Dialogues with notable women in American theatre

Subject

1. Television
2. Theater > California > San Francisco
3. Theater > United States
4. American Conservatory Theater
5. Theater > Production and direction
6. Theatrical producers and directors > Interviews
7. Interviews
8. Women theatrical producers and directors > Interviews
9. Talk shows
10. Women in the theater
11. Perloff, Carey > Interviews

Genre/Form

1. Television.
2. Talk shows.
3. Interviews.

Call number

1. NCOX 2041

Note

1. Credits at end of tape.
2. Program is also available at www.cuny.tv.
3. "Discussion program spotlighting prominent women from the theatre, including performers, playwrights, producers and designers."

Performer (note)

1. Interviewer: Linda Winer.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. on Nov. 17, 2003. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, May 21, 2004.

Title

1. Women in theatre. Carey Perloff [videorecording] / produced by the League of Professional Theatre Women, Isobel Robins, Harriet Slaughter, co-presidents ; Ruth Mayleas, executive producer ; Betty L. Corwin, director of special projects, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive ; Bob Isaacson, executive in charge of production ; Audra D. Malone, director ; [produced for] CUNY-TV.

Imprint

1. New York : CUNY-TV, c2004.

Series

1. Women in theatre

Performer

1. Interviewer: Linda Winer.

Event

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. on Nov. 17, 2003. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, May 21, 2004.

Local note

1. Gift of The League of Professional Theatre Women and CUNY-TV.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre on Film and Tape Archive Special Collections material

Added author

1. Perloff, Carey, interviewee.
2. Winer, Linda, interviewer.
3. Robins, Isobel, producer.
4. Slaughter, Harriet, producer.
5. Mayleas, Ruth, producer.
6. Corwin, Betty L, producer.
7. Isaacson, Robert, producer.
8. Malone, Audra D, director.
9. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.
10. League of Professional Theatre Women, producer.
11. City University of New York.
12. League of Professional Theatre Women, donor.
13. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), donor.

Research call number

1. NCOX 2041