Ralph G. Allen Biography (1934-)
Full name, Ralph Gilmore Allen; born January 7, 1934, in Philadelphia, PA; son of Ralph Bergen and Sara Beddoe (Walker) Allen; married Harriet Phyllis Nichols, August 24, 1957. Addresses: Office: City University of New York,Queens College, Department of Drama, Flushing, NY 11367.
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- dramatist, producer, drama educator
- Birth Details
- January 7, 1934
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Famous Works
- Credits; Stage Work; Director
- (And producer) Everyman, Clarence Brown Company, Knoxville, TN, 1972-75.
- (With others) The Second Shepherd's Play, Clarence Brown Company,1974-75.
- (With others) An Elizabethian Miscellany, Clarence Brown Company,1974-75.
- (With others) Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, Clarence Brown Company, 1974-75.
- (With others) Scenes from Shakespeare, Clarence Brown Company, 1974-75.
- (With others) An Afternoon with Eva LeGalliene, Clarence Brown Company, 1974-75.
- (With others) Playboy of the Western World, Clarence Brown Company, 1974-75.
- (With others) Aristotle's Bellows, Clarence Brown Company, 1974-75.
- Macbeth, Clarence Brown Company, 1975-76.
- (And producer) Rip Van Winkle (also see below), Clarence Brown Company, John F. Kennedy Center, Wahsington, DC, 1976.
- (And producer) The Tax Collector (also see below), Clarence BrownCompany, then on tour, 1977.
- The New Majestic Follies & Lyceum Gardens Revue (also see below), Clarence Brown Company, 1977.
- Hamlet, Clarence Brown Company, 1977-78.
- The Imaginary Invalid, Clarence Brown Company, 1977-78.
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Clarence Brown Company, 1977-78.
- Do You Turn Somersaults?, Clarence Brown Company, 1977-78.
- Sugar Babies II, Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles, 1991.
- Credits; Plays
- (With Joshua Logan) Rip Van Winkle, produced by Clarence Brown Company, then John F. Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, 1976.
- (With Logan) The Tax Collector (adapted from Lesage's Turcaret), first produced by Clarence Brown Company, 1977.
- The New Majestic Follies & Lyceum Gardens Revue, produced by Clarence Brown Company, 1977.
- (And creator with Harry Rigby) Sugar Babies (a burlesque musical in two acts), first produced at Curran Theatre, San Francisco, CA, then touredU.S. Cities, 1979-86, later Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre, Indianapolis, IN, 1986-87.
- (With others) Diamonds (a musical in two acts; also see below), Circle in the Square, New York City, 1984-85.
- (With David Campbell and Michael Valenti) Honky Tonk Nights (a musical in two acts), Biltmore Theatre, New York City, 1986.
- Also author of A Horse of a Different Color (with Campbell and Valenti), 1989.
- Credits; Other
- Author of books, including Theatre and Drama in the Making (with John Gassner), 1965; Sugar Babies, c. 1980; and Gaiety: The Life andTimes of the American Burlesque Show, 1980. Contributor of articles to professional journals. Editor, Theatre Survey, 1965-69.