biography
pronunciation:
[chiykin]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1935– )
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| biography:
| Actor and theatre director, born in New York City, USA. His early work as an actor was with the Living Theater, notably in The Connection (1960) and Man is Man (1962). In 1963 he founded The Open Theater, which for a decade produced some of the most original work in the US theatre, such as America Hurrah (1965), Terminal (1969), and Nightwalk (1973). He suffered a stroke in 1984 but went on to co-write The War in Heaven (1991) with Sam Shepard. |
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