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Theatre, Film, and Television Biographies
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Daniel J. Travanti to Dick Vitale
Jose Vega Biography (1920-)
Addresses: Home: 32 King Street, New York, NY, 10014; Office: 1564 Broadway, New York, NY, 10036.
- Nationality
- American
- Occupation
- general/production manager, actor, producer
- Birth Details
- November 7, 1920
- New York City
Famous Works
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First Stage Work
- Dancer, Prince Igor, Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY, 1937.
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Principal Stage Appearances
- Flamenco dancer, Carmen, Mecca Temple, NY, 1940; flamenco soloist,Senia Russakof Ballet, Jordan Hall, Boston, MA, 1940; toured U.S., Jose Vega and His Spanish Ensemble, 1939-42.
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Principal Stage Appearances
- Detective, Mr. and Mrs. North, Catskills, NY, 1942; sailor/consul,My Sister Eileen, Summer tour and with the New York Co. Subway Circuit, 1944; Guildenstern, Hamlet, Bridgeport Summer Theatre, CT, 1945; Croupier, Her Cardboard Lover, Montclair Playhouse, NJ, 1945; Count Giolio Dorse, Within This Hour, Corporal Resnick, Return to Eden, Martha's Vineyard Playhouse, Oak Bluffs MA, 1945; stage manager and understudy property man, Lute Song, Plymouth, NY, 1946; stage manager and general understudy, Another Part of the Forest, Fulton, NY, 1946, Erlanger, Chicago, IL, 1947; assistant stage manager and understudy, A StreetcarNamed Desire, Barrymore, NY, 1947; Bell, Book and Candle, Barrymore, NY, 1950; I Am a Camera, Empire, NY, 1951; Flight into Egypt, Music Box, NY, 1952; The Children's Hour, Coronet, NY, 1952; The Seven Year Itch, Fulton, NY, 1955; The Chalk Garden, Barrymore, NY, 1955; A Very Special Baby, Playhouse, NY, 1956; AnniversaryWaltz, Blackstone, Chicago, IL, 1956; The Genius and the Goddess,Henry, Miller's, NY, 1957; High Spirits, Alvin, NY, 1964.
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Director
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A Streetcar Named Desire, Princeton Summer Theatre, NJ, 1951; producer/director, Roosevelt Playhouse, Miami, FL, 1951; producer/director, AstorTheatre, Syracuse, NY, 1952; summer tour, Bell, Book and Candle, 1953; productions at the Lakewood Theatre, Barnsville, PA, 1955; summer tour, The Bad Seed, 1956; productions at the Joy Thompson's Tent Theatre, Mt. Gabriel, Canada, 1956; summer tour, Show Girl, 1961.
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Principal Stage Work
- Company manager--Mark Twain Tonight--Hal Holbrook, 1962, Oh Calcutta, 1971-72, JFK, 1971-72, A Doll's House (road company), 1971-72; production manager--Aspern Papers, 1961, Night Life, 1962, The Boys from Syracuse, 1963, Semi-Detached, 1963, Something More, 1964-65, High Spirits, 1964-65, Hello Dolly (international company, Las Vegas company), 1965, Oliver (road company), 1965, The Lion in Winter, 1966, Eugene O'Neill Foundation Playwrights' Conference, 1966, Those That Play the Clowns, 1966, Something Different, 1967, The Impossible Years, 1967, To Clothe the Naked, 1967, The Natural Look, 1967, Fire!, 1968, George M!, 1968, The Rothschilds (national company), 1971-72, Forum, 1971-72.
- General manager--Paris Is Out!, 1969-70, Salvation (NY andLos Angeles), 1969-70, A Dream Out of Time, 1970-71, The Me Nobody Knows (Chicago Company), 1970-71, Earl of Ruston, 1970-71, W.C. (summer tour), 1970-71, The Sunshine Boys, 1971-72, The Good Doctor, 1973-74, Scapino, NY and Los Angeles, 1974-75, The Wiz, 1974-75, God's Favorite, 1974-75, Poison Tree, 1975-76, Me& Bessie, 1975-76, California Suite (NY and national company),1976-77, Ain't Misbehavin', 1977-78, Chapter Two (NY and national company), 1977-78, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, 1978-79, They're Playing Our Song (NY and national company), 1978-79, The Mighty Gents, 1978-79, Division Street, 1979-80, I Ought to Be inPictures (NY and national company), 1979-80, Children of a Lesser God (NY and national company), 1979-80, Last Licks, 1979-80, Grownups, 1980-81, Einstein and the Polar Bear, 1980-81, Fools,1980-81, Little Me, 1981-82, Duet for One, 1981-82, GeorgiaBrown and Friends, 1982-83, Master Harold and the Boys, 1982-83, Brighton Beach Memoirs (NY and national company), 1982-83, The RealThing, 1983-84.
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