ABOUT ALVIN EPSTEIN

Alvin Epstein, former Associate Director of the Yale Repertory Theatre and Artistic Director of the Guthrie Theatre, has staged over twenty productions and performed in over one hundred, most recently in Richard II and The Doctor's Dilemma at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) in Cambridge.

His more than twenty Broadway and Off-Broadway productions include his debut with Marcel Marceau in 1955, the Fool in Orson Welles' King Lear, Lucky in the American premiere of Waiting for Godot with Bert Lahr, Clov in the American premiere of Endgame, the revue From A to Z with Hermoine Gingold, Luc Delbert in the Richard Rodgers musical No Strings with Diahann Carroll and Richard Kiley, Paechum in The Threepenny Opera co-starring with Sting, and the world premiere of Sam Shepherd and Joe Chaikin's When the World Was Green at the Atlanta Olympics and subsequently at the New York Public Theatre, A.R.T. in Cambridge, the Moscow Art Theatre in Russia and at the Singapore Festival of the Arts.

Together with Martha Schlamme, Mr. Epstein performed A Kurt Weill Cabaret on Broadway, throughout the U.S. and on tour in South America.

Mr. Epstein was named Most Promising Actor by the New York Drama Critics in 1956. His other awards include an Obie in 1967 for Dynamite Tonite!, the Brandeis Creative Arts Award, the 1994 Torch of Hope Award, the Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellance in 1996, and the Independent Reviewers of New England 1999 Award for Best Supporting Actor (Shabelsky in Ivanov at ART).

He teaches acting at the A.R.T. /MXAT Institute and is a senior member of the A.R.T. Acting Company.