Edward Cornell

Edward Cornell
Born April 2, 1944
Hartford, Connecticut
Occupation artist, theater director, painter
Nationality United States
Website
www.crookedbrookstudios.com

Edward Cornell (born 1944) was an early associate of Joseph Papp at the New York Shakespeare Festival. He was the first managing director of the Festival's experimental wing, The Other Stage, where he directed No Place to Be Somebody,[1] the Festival's first Pulitzer Prize winner.

Life

He lived his early life in the Boston area. His father was a rocket engineer at the MIT's Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. After graduating Williams College, he attended Yale Drama School where he met Joseph Papp and came to New York as his assistant at The Public Theater. He currently resides in the Adirondack Park where he has established a career as a painter and sculptor.[2]

Bibliography

See also

References

External links