Career
He is best known for his role as the creator and producer of the Broadway show The Gathering in 1999. Mr. Arje Shaw is Jewish. His father fled the Nazis, after being nearly beaten to death, and settled in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Later, the family spent three years in a refugee camp at Bergen-Belsen, where hunger and deprivation played a searing role.
Ultimately the family migrated to the United States. His childhood experiences were said to make their mark in Shaw"s plays.