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Biography:
Born in Petersburg, Virginia, Leach was the artistic director of New York City's La MaMa experimental theatre company in the 1970s. He also often directed works and designed sets for Joseph Papp's Public Theater and New York Shakespeare Festival, where he first directed The Pirates of Penzance with Kevin Kline, Linda Ronstadt, Rex Smith, and Patricia Routledge in 1980. That same year he helmed a television production with the same cast, and in 1981 he staged the Broadway production, replacing the unavailable Routledge with Estelle Parsons, and winning his first Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical. His association with Pirates continued with a 1983 feature film (with Angela Lansbury replacing Parsons), which he wrote and directed.
Leach's additional theatre directing credits include two projects that originated at the Public and then transferred to Broadway, The Human Comedy (1984) and The Mystery of Edwin Drood, for which he won his second Tony.
While a film and theater professor at Sarah Lawrence, where he taught since 1958, Leach met students Brian De Palma and Cynthia Munroe. In collaboration with the two, he produced, directed, and wrote the screenplay for the 1969 film The Wedding Party, whose cast included newcomers Robert De Niro and Jill Clayburgh. He also directed All's Well That Ends Well (1978) with Frances Conroy for television and a straight-to-video version of Coriolanus (1979), with Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman.
The protagonist of Brian De Palma's film Phantom of the Paradise (1974), Winslow Leach, is named after Wilford Leach.
Leach died from stomach cancer in Rocky Point, New York. wiki
Director (5 credits)
1983 The Pirates of Penzance
1980 The Pirates of Penzance (TV Movie)
1979 Coriolanus (Video)
1978 All's Well That Ends Well (TV Movie)
1969 The Wedding Party
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Enlaces completados:
OK The Wedding Party (VV. DD., 1969)[ver Brian de Palma]