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George Ferencz (born February 3, 1947) is an American theater director, producer, and teacher of Hungarian descent who first rose to fame with his productions of Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape(1976) and Dynamo (1976). A major name in American theater, he is renowned for his innovative stagings of plays and musicals by Sam Shepard, Eugene O'Neill, Amiri Baraka. He has taught Theater at Columbia University, Yale University and New York University. He co-founded the Impossible Ragtime Theater in 1975 with Pam Mitchell, Ted Story and Cynthia Crane. Ferencz is known for his extensive work with La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club where he was a resident director from 1982 to 2008. He has directed 19 Shepard productions including Shep’N’Rep (1979), Cowboy Mouth (1981), The Tooth of Crime (1983), and Shepard Sets (1984); the latter began Ferencz’s collaborative partnership with drummer/composer Max Roach. Ferencz’s other Off-and Off-Off-Broadway credits include Paris Lights (1980), Battery (1981), Money: A Jazz Opera (1982), Harm’s Way (1985), Welcome Back to Salamaca (1988), Conjur Woman by Beatrice Manley Blau (2008), and Prague, 1912 (2017).
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3 February 1947
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14 September 2021 (aged 74)
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| Zodiac | Aquarius |
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