About
Producer of Broadway hits and the New York Shakespeare Festival.
Before Fame
He studied under Eulalie Spence.
Trivia
He founded an arts organization in New York City called The Public Theater in 1954.
Family Life
He was born to two Jewish immigrants from Russia named Yetta (nee Miritch), who was a seamstress, and Samuel Papirofsky, who was a trunk maker.
Associated With
He and Vic Tayback were both born in Brooklyn.
