Background
Geidt, Jeremy Wollaston was born on February 25, 1930 in London, England. Son of Frederick Bernard and Audrey Caroline Geidt.
Geidt, Jeremy Wollaston was born on February 25, 1930 in London, England. Son of Frederick Bernard and Audrey Caroline Geidt.
Degree, Wellington College, England, 1946.
Born in London in 1930, Geidt was diagnosed as dyslexic in his youth and dropped out of school. At the age of 16, he auditioned and was accepted into The Old Vic School, where he would later teach under Michel Saint-Denis. Around 1961, after appearing in stage and television productions, he began to tour with the ensemble "The Establishment", who performed satire.
He became a professor of acting at Yale University"s School of Drama.
He was also taught acting at Harvard University in 1998. Of his students in his 2000 American Repertory Theater acting workshop, Geidt stated, "I"m hoping they come away with their imaginations touched, enlarged and having experienced something that is, hopefully, joyful..with something they found within themselves — or in the text — that they didn"t know they had." Around 2000, Geidt was diagnosed with cancer.
However, he refused to stop performing. On 6 August 2013, he suffered a heart attack and died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Partial stage work = With the American Repertory Theater.
He was a founding member of both the American Repertory Theater and the Yale Repertory Theatre. Geidt stayed in the States, becoming a founding member of the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1966. He went on to become a founding member of the American Repertory Theater and an acting instructor at its Institute for Advanced Theater Training.
Married Jan Graham, August 31, 1964. Children: Jennifer Wollaston Holmwood, Sophie Wollaston, Lucy Wollaston Durman.