Lawrence Sacharow
LAWRENCE SACHAROW received the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Direction of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize Winning play Three Tall Women Off Broadway and was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award. He received an Obie Award for directing Len Jenkins' Five of Us. He is a recipient of The Last Frontier Directing Award for lifteime achievment from the Edward Albree Prince William Sound Theater Conference in Alaska. He directed Beckett/Albee at the Century Theater, Dylan's Line by Jack Gelber at McCarter Theatere, The Golem at Manhattan Ensemble Theatre and a new revival of The Beard by Michael McClure at La MaMa ETC. He conceived and directed The Road Home, Stories of Children of War a multimedia performance at Asia Society and on tour Nationally and Internationally at the famed Taganka Theatre in Moscow. He is a pioneer in the field of biographical theatre with the acclaimed play the Concept performed by recovering drug addicts from Daytop Village, which played for three years Off Broadway at the Winte House and the United Nations. In 1994 it toured under the auspices of the U.S. State Department to the Moscow Art Theatre and the Gorky Theatre in St. Petersburgh. He has directred Off Broadway and regionally at The Promenade Theater, The Vinyard Theare, BAM, Cafe Cino, Cafe La MaMa, Judson Poests Theater, CSC, Hudson Guild, TNC, Young Playwright's Festival, Bardavon Opera House, The Kennedy Ceneter, The Alley Theatere, The Mark Taper Forum, Dallas Theatre Center, Arizona Theatre Co., Williamstown Theatre Festival, and many others. He is founding Artistic Director of River Artts Repertory wich operated for fourteen years in Woodstock, N.Y. where he directed The Seagull with Joanne Woodward, The Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya, As You Like It, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Bus Stop, Tooth of Crime and Angel City by Sam Shepard, Not I and Foothills by Samuel Beckett, and the American premiers of Edward Albee's Three Tall Women, Hunting Cockroaches by Januscz Glowacki, Insignificance by Terry Johnson, Viva Detroit by Derrick Walcott, A Country Doctor by Len Jenkins the only stage version of the movie Casablanca adopted by Michael Christofer, and many others. He produced two International Festivals at River Arts Summer Festival Theatre in Woodstock, NY including an Israeli/Palestinian festival of workshops and new plays, and an American/Russian festival of music, new plays and distinguished panels. He created a partnership with The Moscow Art Theatre for a Russian/American playwrights exchange and translation project funded by the USIA. River Arts Repertory is now a resident company in NYC developing new work including an opera The Strange Life of Ivan Osokin, music by Peter Gordon, libretto by Constance Congdon and based on the novel by P.D. Ouspensky, which premiered at La MaMa Annex. He has served as Chairman of the NYSCA Theatre Panel, has taught in the NYU Graduate Acting Program, and directed the The Lorca Play, a new play by Edward Albee based on the life of Frederico Garcia Lorca, Off Broadway. In 2006 Mr. Sacharow died as a result of complications from leukemia. Bio as of September, 2009. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Working in the Theatre (video) Playwright and Director - September, 2002 - Watch now. Playwright and Director - September, 1994 - Watch now. SDCF Masters of the Stage (audio) Edward Albee - December, 2000 - Listen Now.