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Elizabeth LeCompte (born April 28, 1944) is an American director of experimental theater, dance, and media. A founding member of The Wooster Group , she has directed that ensemble since its emergence in the late 1970s.
Hilton Als is the theater critic at The New Yorker and an advisory editor of The Paris Review. Hilton Als talks with the director Elizabeth LeCompte about her theater company, the Wooster Group.
Elizabeth LeCompte is a small, slender, fine-boned woman of sixty-three, with dark-green eyes and silvery blond hair that she winds up into a floppy twist at the back of her head,...
With our many artistic associates, we have created and performed over fifty works directed by Elizabeth LeCompte. Our commitment to working as an ensemble and self-producing outside the commercial system has allowed us to create work in-depth over long periods of time.
Elizabeth LeCompte, much-feted director of the Wooster Group, on her life at the apex of the avant-garde—and reimagining a legendary moment in ’70s feminism.
The group took its name in 1980; the independent productions of 1975–1980 are retroactively attributed to the group. [1] The ensemble is directed by Elizabeth LeCompte and it launched the careers of many actors including founding member Willem Dafoe.
Interview with the founding member of The Wooster Group, director Elizabeth LeComp. As contained within The Art of the Rehearsal, Conversations with Contempo...
Elizabeth LeCompte was a founding member of The Wooster Group experimental theater company in the 1970s and has been its director since its formal founding in 1980. Under her direction, the group has created over fifty innovative theater, film, and media pieces.
The Wooster Group originated in 1975 with works composed by Spalding Gray and director Elizabeth LeCompte around Gray's personal history (the THREE PLACES IN RHODE ISLAND trilogy: Sakonnet Point, Rumstick Road, and Nayatt School).
Elizabeth LeCompte, the director of the experimental theater company the Wooster Group, has been awarded the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, which is given annually to an artist who...