Gene Feist

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Eugene "Gene" Feist (born January 16, 1930, New York City) is an American stage actor, theatre director and co-founder of the Roundabout Theater Company.

He married stage actress Kathe Schneider (known professionally as Elizabeth Owens) on February 10, 1957; they had two daughters, Nicole and Gena.

They revived the New Theater in Nashville, Tennessee, and, in 1965, Gene and Kathe Feist founded the Roundabout Theater, which was first located in a supermarket of the housing development where the Feists lived, known as Penn South, where the Feists continued to live for the rest of their lives. Eventually the Company moved to Broadway, where Elizabeth Owens appeared in more than 30 plays over the next 25 years. Gene Feist remains as the Roundabout's Founding Director.

Kathe Feist (aka Elizabeth Owens) died from breast cancer, aged 77, in March 2005.

She was survived by her husband, her two daughters and a grandson, all of whom live in the Penn South housing complex in Manhattan.

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