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Theatre, Film, and Television Biographies
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Ira J Bilowit Biography (1925-)
Addresses: Home: 240 W. 10th Street, New York, NY, 10014; Office: 41 W. 72nd Street, New York, NY, 10023.
Mr. Bilowit has worked in various fields within the theatre including work asstate manager, production manager, general manager for dance presentations,children's theatre, and Off-Broadway, community, and summer stock productions. He produced, with Unicorn Productions, his musical, Of Mice and Men; with Terese Hayden and Elaine Aiken, The Secret Concubine, Carnegie Hall Playhouse, New York, 1960; and directed his play, For Love of Candy at the Forestburgh Summer Theatre, Monticello, NY, 1971. For PancosmasProductions he has produced films for television and commercial release.
- Nationality
- American
- Occupation
- critic, writer, producer
- Birth Details
- September 12, 1925
- New York
Famous Works
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Non-Theatrical Career
- Graduate Fellow, City College, 1947-50; Tutor, City College, 1950ndash;51.
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Writer: Plays
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Of Mice and Men (adaptation and lyrics), 1958; For Love of Candy, 1971.
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Books
- ANTA publication on Off-Broadway Theatre.
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Periodicals
- Editor and reviewer for Show Business, 1953-58, and managing editor, Show Business, 1961-63 and 1972-75; contributing editor, Back Stage (also responsible for Annual Legit Section of Anniversary Issues) 1980-83; editor-publisher, New York Theatre Review, 1976-80: articles inAmerican Way Magazine, Theatre Crafts, Other Stages.
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