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Theatre, Film, and Television Biographies
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Brigitte Nielsen to Bill Owen
Dorothy Olim Biography (1934-)
Addresses: Office: 1540 Broadway, New York, NY, 10036.
Miss Olim has lectured around the country on the subjects of "How to produceOff-Broadway" and "economics of the theatrical industry." She is a former president and current board member if the League of Advertising Agencies, of which her agency, Krone-Olim Advertising, Inc., is a member.
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- manager, producer
- Birth Details
- October 14, 1934
- New York
Famous Works
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Debut
- Sorceress, The Boys from Syracuse, Lambertville Music Circus, NJ,1953 (also served as assistant treasurer).
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New York Debut
- The Signora, Tonight We Improvise, Living Theatre, 1954.
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Producer
- Plays--The One-Eyed Man Is King, Theatre East, NY, 1956; (associate with Lore Noto and Sheldon Baron) The Fantasticks, Sullivan Street Playhouse, NY, 1960; (with Gerald Krone) A Worm in Horseradish, MaidmanPlayhouse, NY, 1961; (with Gerald Krone) The Golden Apple, York Playhouse, NY, 1962; The Lion in Love, One Sheridan Square, NY, 1963; Pimpernal, Gramercy, NY, 1964; (with St. John Terrell and Gerald Krone), I Must Be Talking to My Friends, NY, Orpheum, 1967; also, forty-five plays at the Saranac Lake Summer Theatre, 1956-60.
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Manager
- General Manager, St. John Terrell's Music Circus, Sterling Forest Gardens, Tuxedo, NY, 1960; General Manager, E. 11th Street Theatre, NY, 1961-62.As Dorothy Olim Associates, Inc., has been the General Manager of The River Niger, Bob and Ray--The Two and Only, Your Own Thing, America Hurrah, MacBird, Fortune and Men's Eyes, Vietrock, Collision Course, Red Cross &Muzeeka, Tom Paine, Happy Ending & Day of Absence, We Bombed in New Haven, You Never Know, Rosebloom, Big Time Buck White, Father's Day, Curse ofan Aching Heart, Solomon's Child, Poppie Nongena, A Weekend Near Madison,Piano Bar, others. Her firm also represents Theatre Four, a 299-seat Off-Broadway theatre.
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