Jack Gelber
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Jack Gelber (b:1932 - May 09, 2003) was a Chicago-born US American playwright best known for his 1959 drama The Connection, depicting the dead-end life of drug addicts.
[edit] Career
He wrote the confrontational The Connection,a stage play performed in 1959 by the Living Theater at the age of 26, later made into a film in 1961 by Shirley Clarke. Gelber was also a theater director and teacher and wrote a dozen plays, but "The Connection," remained the cornerstone of his career.
"I was so affected and energized by 'The Connection,' " Edward Albee said after his death. "It was exciting, dangerous, instructive and terrifying -- all things theater should be."
