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Warren Kliewer Biography (1931-)

Addresses: Home: 281 Lincoln Avenue, Secaucus, NJ, 07094.

Mr. Kliewer is also a widely published writer of poetry. "For me everything has a history. When I write a piece for the theater and it is performed, it takes place in the present: a performance takes place right now, this very moment. But I'm always conscious that any event is originated in a previous time to which it is still related. I'm sure this is why I'm drawn to historical or traditional subjects, which on stage can convey presentness andpastness simultaneously."

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

writer, actor, director

Birth Details

September 20, 1931

Mountain Lake, Minnesota

Famous Works

• Principal Stage Appearances
• (New York) Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr; Legendre/General Dillon, Danton's Death; Cutbeard, Epicoene, 1975; Witness #1, The Investigation, 1980; (Regional) Bishop of Lax, See How They Run and Pool's Paradise; First Guard/Chorus, Antigone; HenryPeabody, Tobacco Road, Fulton Opera House, 1975; Reverend John Hale, The Crucible, Fulton Opera House, 1975; Dr. Bonfant, The Waltz of the Toreadors, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, 1980; (Stock) Queeg, Caine Mutiny Court Martial; Gordon Lowther, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Keller, The Miracle Worker; Gordon Miller, Room Service.
• Major Tours
• Dr. Mayberry, I Never Sang for My Father; Judge/Major, Inheritthe Wind; Faustus (one-man show); The Seven Ages of an American (one-man show); Dissenters (one-man show).
• Directed: Plays
• Bell, Book and Candle, Wichita Summer Theater; Our Town, Eagles Mere Playhouse; Antigone, Woman, Mark the Humor in Twain, Carolina Readers' Theatre, 1974; Under Milkwood, The Skin of Our Teeth, Actors' Company of Pennsylvania; Ah, Wilderness!, Little Theatre ofWinston-Salem; Halfway up the Tree, Playhouse on the Hill; Ever SoHumble, Stage Directors and Choreographers Workshop Foundation, LincolnCenter, John Drew, Old Sturbridge Village, Smithsonian Institution, 1975; Charles the Second, Classic, 1977; The Divided Bed, Equity Library, 1978; A New England Legend, La Ronde, Equity Library, 1979; Paterson, Equity Library, 1980; The Yellow Wallpaper, Stage Directors and Choreographers Workshop, Lincoln Center, Jersey City, New Rochelle, Chicago, Philadelphia, 1980; Hypocrites, Frauds, and Cheats, college tour, 1981.
• Principal Film Appearances
• Hair; Ragtime; Svengali.
• Principal Television Appearances
• The Adams Chronicles.
• Plays, Produced
• The Summoning of Everyman, Bethany College, KS, 1961; In the Suburbs of Nineveh, Earlham College, 1962; A Bird in the Bush, University of Southern California, 1962; The Harrowing of Hell, Professional Institute, Richmond, VA, 1962; Philip Melanchthon, Religious Arts Festival Theater, Rochester, NY, 1963; The Wounded, Taylor University, 1964; A Trial Can Be Fun, If You're the Judge, Firehouse Theater, Minneapolis, MN, 1965; Seventy, Times Seven, Eagles Mere Playhouse, PA,1965; The Wrestler, Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI, 1964; The Offering, Hamline University, 1964; In the Beginning Was Eve, United Theological Seminary, Minneapolis, MN, 1966;
• What Do You Care? It's Beyond Repair, University Theatre, Wichita, KS; Madame Cleo Here, At Your Service, Wichita State University,1970. Washington Theatre Club, 1971. Princeton Inn College, 1979; The Great Debate, Kaleidoscope Players, midwestern cities, 1971-74; From Ten to Twenty, Kaleidoscope Players, midwestern cities, 1974-75; A Lean andHungry Priest, Scorpio Rising Theatre, Los Angeles, 1973; Meet Ben Franklin, Kaleidoscope Players, midwestern cities, 1973; Half Horse, Half Cockeyed Alligator, Fulton Opera House American Heritage Festival, 1974, East Lynne Company, Jersey City, 1981; Heroes and Failures, Hamden Hall Theatre, 1976, Gettysburg College, 1977; The Berserkers, New Dramatists, NY, 1977; The Booth Brothers, New Dramatists, 1978; Hypocrites, Frauds and Cheats, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1981.
• Plays Published
• The Summoning of Everyman, 1961; A Bird in the Bush, 1962;The Horrowing of Hell, 1962: The Prodical Son, 1962; The Devil Comes to Claim His Own, 1963; Seventy Times Seven, 1965; TheWrestling, 1967; A Trial Can Be Fun, If You're the Judge, 1969; What Are We Going to Do with All These Rotting Fish?, 1970; A Lean and Hungry Priest, 1975; How Can You Tell the Good Guys from the Bad Guys, 1975; The Doubting Saint, 1975.
• Books
• Red Rose and Gray Cowl, 1960; Kansas Renaissance: An Anthologyof Contemporary Kansas Writing, 1961; Moralities and Miracles, 1962; The Violators, 1964; Liturgies, Games, Farewells, 1974.
• Fiction in Periodicals
• "With Fear and Trembling," Mennonite Life, 1958; "The Hermitage,"Descant, 1959; "The Sibyl," Kansas Magazine, 1959; "The Homecoming," Mennonite Life, 1960; "UHF," Descant, 1960; "The Barn-Climber," Kansas Magazine, 1961; "War and Rumors of War," Mennonite Life, 1962; "The Voices," Descant, 1962; "Of Mercy and Judgment," Kansas Magazine, 1962; "Madeleine d'Evereaux, the Whole Earth Must Know I Love You So," Kansas Magazine, 1968; "The Prince of Egypt," Kansas Magazine.
• Theatre-Related Career
• Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS, instructor in English and drama, 1959-61;Earlham College, Richmond, IN, assistant professor English, 1961-65; WichitaState University, Wichita, KS, associate professor of English and Theatre, 1966-69; National Humanities Series, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Princeton, NJ, production director, 1970-73; Artistic director of Carolina Readers' Theatre, 1974; director of productions, Wichita State University Experimental Theatre, Wichita Summer Theatre, 1968, Eagles Mere Playhouse, PA, 1969, Kaleidoscope Players, Raton, NM, American Heritage Festival, Fulton Opera House; artistic director, East Lynne Company, 1980-present.