Biography

Born in Russia, stage director Alan Schneider worked primarily in the U.S., and was best known for interpreting the plays of Samuel Beckett. Schneider made very infrequent ventures into cinema, the best-known being Film (1965), an experimental silent movie written by Beckett, made in 1964 with Buster Keaton. Schneider corresponded with Samuel Beckett for many years; ironically, and tragically, he was struck and killed by a motorcycle in London while crossing the street to post a letter to Beckett.
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Won Broadway's 1963 Tony Award as Best Director (Dramatic) for Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Subsequently, he was Tony-nominated four more times: as Best Director (Dramatic), in 1964 for Edward Albee's "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe," in 1965 for Edward Albee's "Tiny Alice," in 1967 for Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance," and, in 1968, for "You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running.".

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 709-711. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.

Father: Leo V. Schneider; Mother: Rebecca L. Malkin.