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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.