Liz McCann, a groundbreaking Broadway producer who, as one of the first and most successful women to achieve a prominent leadership role in the theater industry – a term she hated, preferring “theater community” – died yesterday of cancer at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx.
She was 90.Her death was announced by her longtime associate and friend Kristen Luciani.Elizabeth Ireland McCann – known throughout the Broadway community simply as Liz – started her career in theater as a production assistant and manager with Proscenium Productions at the Cherry Lane Theatre in the 1950s.
In 1955, the company would be the first Off Broadway theater to win a Special Tony Award for its seminal productions of The Way of the World and Thieves’ Carnival.Follow
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