Jean-Claude van Itallie
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| Born | 25 May 1936 Brussels, Belgium |
| Citizenship | American |
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| Occupation | Playwright, educator |
| Organization | The Open Theatre |
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Jean-Claude van Itallie is a Belgian-born American playwright and educator best known for his work with The Open Theatre in the 1960s.[1][2][3][4]
Early life and education
Jean-Claude van Itallie was born in Brussels, Belgium on May 25, 1936.[1][2] He emigrated to the United States with his family to flee the Nazis in 1940 and grew up in Great Neck, New York on Long Island.[1][2] He graduated from Harvard University in 1958.[1][5]
Career
He has taught at Princeton University, New York University, Harvard University, Yale University, Amherst College, Columbia University, Middlebury College, the University of Colorado, Naropa University, the Esalen Institute, the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, the NY Open Center, etc.[1]
Personal life
He lives on a farm in Massachusetts, where he runs the Shantigar Foundation.[2]
Selected plays
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- America Hurrah
- The Serpent
- War
- Ancient Boys
- Mystery Play
- Struck Dumb (co-written with Joseph Chaikin)
- Bag Lady
- Almost Like Being
- I'm Really Here
- The Traveler
- Light, Voltaire, the Mathematician, and the King of Prussia
- Fear Itself, Secrets of the White House
- Tibetan Book of the Dead or How Not to Do It Again
- A Fable
References
- Articles with hCards
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- 1936 births
- People from Brussels
- Harvard University alumni
- American dramatists and playwrights
- American people of Belgian-Jewish descent
- Jewish American dramatists and playwrights
- Writers from Massachusetts
- Princeton University faculty
- New York University faculty
- Harvard University faculty
- Yale University faculty
- Amherst College faculty
- Columbia University faculty
- Middlebury College faculty
- University of Colorado faculty
- Naropa University faculty
- Belgian emigrants to the United States
- Belgian Jews
- Living people
- Guggenheim Fellows
