Robert Brustein
Robert Sanford Brustein was an American theater critic, producer, playwright, writer, and educator. He founded the Yale Repertory Theatre while serving as dean of the Yale School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut, as well as the American Repertory Theater and Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was a creative consultant until his death, and was the theatre critic for The New Republic.
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- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- Columbia UniversityAmherst CollegeUniversity of NottinghamHigh School of Music & ArtYale School of Drama
- Awards
- 🏆 George Jean Nathan Award🏆 Fulbright Scholarship🏆 George Polk Award🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 National Medal of Arts
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1927
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