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Mann, Theodore [né Goldman] (b. 1924), director and manager. Born in Brooklyn, he studied law and was a practicing lawyer prior to co‐founding the Circle in the Square in 1950 and its school in 1961. He has frequently directed that group's warmly received productions. On occasion he has served as co‐producer on Broadway, including Long Day's Journey into Night (1956), Hughie (1964), and The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1965).
Theodore Mann is an American theatre producer and director and the Artistic Director of the Circle in the Square Theatre School.
Mann co-founded Circle in the Square Theatre, widely regarded as the birth of the off-Broadway theatre movement, with Jose Quintero in 1951. Ten years later, he established the Circle in the Square Theatre School to provide training for aspiring actors. It presently offers a two-year program including courses in scene study, text analysis, speech, dance, and singing technique.
Mann has produced and/or directed more than two hundred productions starring such luminaries as Geraldine Page, Colleen Dewhurst, James Earl Jones, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Maureen Stapleton, Rip Torn, George C. Scott, and Jane Alexander. In addition to his Broadway and off-Broadway credits, he has directed The Turn of the Screw for the New York City Opera, La Boheme for the Juilliard School, and The Night of the Iguana for Moscow's Maly Theater.
Mann has received two Tony Awards, one as producer of the 1956 revival of Long Day's Journey Into Night and a special award acknowledging twenty-five continuous years of quality productions at Circle in the Square. He has been nominated for twelve additional Tonys and seven Drama Desk Awards.
Mann received the 1999 Tao House Award from the Eugene O'Neill Foundation for his distinguished career in theatre and for his dedication to the works of O'Neill.
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