Ellis Rabb | |
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Born | Ellis W. Rabb June 20, 1930 Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
Died | January 11, 1998 Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. | (aged 67)
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Awards | Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play 1976 The Royal Family |
Ellis W. Rabb (June 20, 1930 – January 11, 1998) was an American actor and director who in 1959 formed the Association of Producing Artists, a theatre company that brought new works and noteworthy revivals to Broadway and to regional theatres. The APA merged with the Phoenix Theatre in 1964 and as the APA-Phoenix went on to mount Broadway revivals of Man and Superman, The Show Off, Right You Are If You Think You Are, and Hamlet (in which Rabb played the title role) among others, with the APA-Phoenix receiving a special Tony Award for distinguished achievement prior to disbanding in 1969.
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