George Ferencz, a longtime mainstay of the Off Broadway scene who directed premieres and revivals of plays by Sam Shepard, Aishah Rahman and Amiri Baraka, died Sept.
14 following a long illness. He was 74His death was announced today by the three-time Emmy Award winning costumer designer Sally Lesser, his wife of 35 years and collaborator on more than 65 theater productions.Among the other then-new playwrights directed by Ferencz in significant stagings were Jean-Claude van Itallie, Mac Wellman, and Yasmine Rana.
Ferencz also directed established works by playwrights including Eugene O’Neill, Bertolt Brecht, Tennessee Williams, Sean O’Casey, and Agatha Christie.“We would regularly run into his colleagues and former students on the street,”
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