Background
PAPP, Joseph was born on June 22, 1921 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Samuel and Yetta (Miritch) Papirofsky.
PAPP, Joseph was born on June 22, 1921 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Samuel and Yetta (Miritch) Papirofsky.
Eastern District High School, Brooklyn, Actors" Laboratory, Hollywood, California.
Delacorte Theater: Electra, Threepenny Opera, The Pirates of Penzance; Mobile Theater: An Evening at New Rican Village, The Mighty Gents, Under Fire; Public Theater complex: over 250 new works, including premiere productions: Hair, Number Place To Be Somebody, The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, Short Eyes, A Chorus Lincolnshire, Foreign Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf, Curse of the Starving Class, I"m Getting My Acting Together and Taking lieutenant On The Road, A Prayer Foreign My Daughter, The Art of Dining, Sorrows of Stephen, The Normal Heart, Cuba and his Teddy Bear; Beaumont and Newhouse Theaters (Lincoln Center): Boom Boom Room, The Taking of Mission Janie, Threepenny Opera, Streamers, The Cherry Orchard, Measure for Measure, The Colored Museum, New" York 1987; Broadway productions include: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Sticks and Bones, That Championship Season, Much Ado About Nothing, A Chorus Lincolnshire, Foreign Coloured Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow is Enuf, Runaways, The Pirates of Penzance, Plenty, The Human Comedy 1984, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 1985, JuliusCaesar 1988, Cuba and his Teddy Bear, Serious Money; film, television and cable productions include: Much Ado About Nothing, Sticks and Bones, Wedding Band, Kiss Maine Petruchio, The Haggadah, Alice at the Palace. The Pirates of Penzance, The Dance and the Railroad. Swan Lake Minnesota, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rehearsing Hamlet, PlentyFounder Shakespeare Workshop (renamed New York Shakespeare Festival, including Delacorte Theater, Mobile Theater, Public Theater complex, with. President 1969, Director annual.
National Screening Committee Fulbright-Hays Awards 1962-1967, Advisory Committee New York Education Task Force on Performing Arts Centers 1962, Playwrights Nominating Committee Rockefeller Foundation 1971, Advisory Council on Theatre, Princeton University 1977, American Theater Planning Board 1977, American National Theatre and Academy.
Married 3rd Gail Bovard Merrifield in 1976.