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Additional authors

1. Stewart, Ellen, 1919-2011
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 videodisc (DVD) (29 min.) : sd., col. SP; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Ellen Stewart, founder and artistic director of La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, talks with Newsday critic Linda Winer. Stewart discusses how she created La Mama in New York in 1961 with virtually no financial resources, establishing an environment where American writers and such as Sam Shepard, and Harvey Fierstein, and prominent directors from the international avant-garde found encouragement and a home for their work. Stewart speaks about being subject to frequent raids and arrests during her theater's early days on the grounds that she lacked a license to present entertainment; the acquisition in 1968 of her present headquarters, a dilapidated building on East Fourth St. which she renovated with financial assistance from the Ford Foundation; the "guardian angels," who helped her survive; her arrival in New York City in 1950, and one of her first jobs as an executive in the design department of Saks Fifth Avenue; the vagaries of government funding; and how she has been able to produce such a wide array of theatre on her own terms for over 43 years.

Series statement

1. Women in theatre

Alternative title

1. Dialogues with notable women in American theatre

Subject

1. Stewart, Ellen, 1919-2011 > Interviews
2. La Mama Experimental Theatre Club
3. Women in the theater
4. Experimental theater > New York (State) > New York
5. Off Off-Broadway theater
6. Theater > New York (State) > New York
7. Theater > Production and direction
8. Theatrical producers and directors > Interviews
9. Women theatrical producers and directors > Interviews
10. African Americans in the performing arts

Genre/Form

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

Call number

1. NCOX 2326

Note

1. Credits at end of videodisc.
2. Program is also available at www.cuny.tv
3. On container: Season 3, episode 11.
4. "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 Oct. 22, 2004. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, Nov. 18, 2005.

Title

1. Women in theatre. Ellen Stewart [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, c2005.

Series

1. Women in theatre

Performer

1. Interviewer: Linda Winer.

Event

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. on Oct. 22, 2004. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, Nov. 18, 2005.

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. Stewart, Ellen, 1919-2011, 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 2326