Playbill Biography: GENE FEIST

GENE FEIST

GENE FEIST , since founding Roundabout in 1965, has been intimately involved as producer-director for more than 150 productions. For Broadway, he directed The Play�s the Thing (1973) and produced A Taste of Honey (1981) and the Tony Award-winning revival of Joe Egg (1984). He sent The Winslow Boy and A Raisin in the Sun on national tour. Among the produced plays he has written are James Joyce�s Dublin, Jocasta and Oedipus, Wretched the Lionhearted, A Toy of the Clowns and Building Blocks. He has provided distinguished adaptations of the works of Feydeau, Ibsen, Chekhov and Strindberg. Most recently, Mr. Feist produced a festival of Israeli plays at the Public Theater. A WWII Army Air Force veteran, he holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon and New York universities. Member: Dramatists Guild, Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, the Broadway League. He is the recipient of the 1996 Lucille Lortel Foundation�s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Currently appearing in
Show	Theatre	Role
Bye Bye Birdie	Henry Miller's Theatre	Founding Director

Previously seen in
Show	Theatre	Role
Waiting for Godot	Studio 54	Founding Director
Man For All Seasons, A	American Airlines Theatre	Founding Director
Sunday in the Park With George	Studio 54	Founding Director
Pygmalion	American Airlines Theatre	Founding Director

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