Arvin Brown
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Arvin Brown
Brown, Arvin (b. 1940), director and manager. He was born in Los Angeles and studied at Stanford, Harvard, the University of Bristol (England), and at the Yale School of Drama. Brown has directed both classics and new works, as well as the American premieres of foreign plays. He has occasionally worked on Broadway and at the Circle in the Square, but he is most associated with the Long Wharf Theatre where he served as artistic director for many years. Broadway has praised his revivals of A View from the Bridge (1983), Joe Egg (1984), All My Sons (1987), Ah, Wilderness! (1988), and Private Lives (1992), though few were commercial successes. Brown's direction is never flashy or highly conceptual but instead focuses on realism and ensemble acting.
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Arvin Brown
Arvin Brown (born May 24, 1940) is an American theatre and television director and was the Artistic Director of the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut for 30 years. He was married to actress Joyce Ebert until her death in 1997.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Brown made his Broadway directorial debut with a 1970 revival of Noël Coward's Hay Fever. Subsequent credits include The National Health (1974), Ah, Wilderness! (1975), Watch on the Rhine (1980), A View from the Bridge (1983), American Buffalo (1983), Open Admissions (1984), Requiem for a Heavyweight (1985), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1985), All My Sons (1987), Private Lives (1992), and The Twilight of the Golds (1993).
Brown has directed for numerous television series, including multiple episodes of NCIS, Leverage, Lie to Me, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Crossing Jordan, Kevin Hill, Everwood, and The Closer, and single episodes for Picket Fences, Party of Five, Chicago Hope, Dawson's Creek, Judging Amy, Ed, Private Practice and Shark, among many others.
He has made one feature film, Diary of the Dead (1976), starring Geraldine Fitzgerald, Hector Elizondo, and Salome Jens.
Awards and nominations
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play (Ah, Wilderness!, nominee)
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play (A Memory of Two Mondays/27 Wagons Full of Cotton, nominee)
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play (The National Health, nominee)
- Drama Desk Vernon Rice Award (Long Day's Journey Into Night, winner)
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