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Joseph Chaikin Biography (1935-)
Born September 16, 1935, in Brooklyn, NY. Addresses: OFFICE--c/o Artservices, 463 W. Street, New York, NY, 10014.
- Nationality
- American
- Birth Details
- September 16, 1935
- Brooklyn, New York, United States
Famous Works
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Credits
- OFF-BROADWAY DEBUT--Mr. Atkins, Dark of the Moon, Carnegie Hall Playhouse, New York City, 1958.
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Credits; PRINCIPAL STAGE APPEARANCES
- Serafina's boy friend and real estate agent, Many Loves, Ephron, The Caveat Machpelah, Leach, The Connection, and Mangini, Tonight We Improvise, allLiving Theatre, New York City, 1959.
- title role, Santa Claus, Lazarus, Calvary, and Folial, Escurial, all GateTheatre, New York City, 1960.
- Serafina's boy friend and real estate agent, Many Loves, Living Theatre,1961.
- Galy Gay, Man Is Man, Living Theatre, 1962.
- Leach, The Connection, and C. Maynes, In the Jungle of Cities, both Living Theatre, 1963.
- furniture mover, "The New Tenant," and detective, "Victims of Duty," in Two by Ionesco, Writers' Stage Theatre, New York City, 1964.
- the Clown, Sing to Me through Open Windows, Players Theatre, New York City, 1965.
- Coolie, The Exception and the Rule, Greenwich Mews Theatre, New York City, 1965.
- Hamm, Endgame, Open Theatre, Washington Square Methodist Church, New YorkCity, 1970.
- title role, Woyzeck, New York Shakespeare Festival (NYSF), Public Theatre, New York City, 1976.
- Tongues (one-man show), Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA, 1978.
- man, "Tongues" and "Savage/Love" in Tongues (one-man show), Eureka Theatre, San Francisco, CA, then NYSF, Public Theatre, both 1979, later Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, CA, 1981.
- Texts (one-man show), NYSF, Public Theatre, 1981.
- title role, Uncle Vanya, La Mama Experimental Theatre Club Annex, New York City, 1983.
- Also appeared in Captain Fantastic Meets the Ectomorph, New Theatre Workshop, New York City, 1966; Is This Real?, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, 1985.
- FIRST LONDON STAGE WORK--Director, "Interview" in America Hurrah, Open Theatre of New York, Royal Court Theatre, 1967.
- PRINCIPAL STAGE WORK; ALL AS DIRECTOR,UNLESS INDICATED "Interview" in America Hurrah, Pocket Theatre, New York City, 1966.
- The Serpent: A Ceremony, Open Theatre of New York, Public Theatre, New York City, 1969, then Washington Square Methodist Church, New York City, 1970.
- Terminal, Open Theatre of New York, Washington Square Methodist Church, then Theatre at St. Clement's Church, New York City, both 1970, later Theatreat St. Clement's Church, 1973.
- The Mutation Show, Open Theatre of New York, Space for Innovative Development, New York City, then Theatre at St. Clement's Church, both 1973.
- Nightwalk, Open Theatre of New York, Theatre at St. Clement's Church, 1973.
- (also producer) Electra, Theatre at St. Clement's Church, 1974.
- The Seagull, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City, 1975.
- producer (with the Theatre of Latin America), Chile, Chile, Washington Square Methodist Church, 1975.
- A Fable, Exchange Theatre, Westbeth, New York City, 1975.
- Electra, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, CA, 1976.
- The Dybbuk, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, 1977, then Habimah Theatre, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1979.
- (with Sam Shepard) Antigone, NYSF, Public Theatre, 1982.
- Solo Voyages, Interart Theatre, New York City, 1985.
- Also served as assistant to Peter Brook on productions of US and The Tempest, both 1966.
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Credits; MAJOR TOURS
- Leach, The Connection, Living Theatre, European cities, 1961-1962.
- Also appeared with the Open Theatre of New York, U.S., Canadian, European, and Middle Eastern cities.
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Credits; PRINCIPAL FILM APPEARANCES
- Julius Orlovsky, Me and My Brother, New Yorker, 1969.
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Writings
- See production details above.
- STAGE; ALL AS COLLABORATOR,UNLESS INDICATED The Serpent: A Ceremony, 1969Terminal, 1970.
- The Mutation Show, 1973.
- Nightwalk, 1973.
- Electra, 1974.
- Chile, Chile, 1975.
- A Fable, 1975.
- (with Mira Rafalowicz) The Dybbuk (new version), 1977.
- (with Sam Shepard) Tongues, 1978.
- (with Shepard) Savage/Love, 1979.
- (adaptor) Texts (from the works of Samuel Beckett), 1981.
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Writings;OTHER
- The Presence of the Actor, Atheneum, 1972.
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