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John Broome

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Choreographer 1913–1999

John Broome (May 4, 1913 – March 14, 1999), who additionally used the pseudonyms John Osgood and Edgar Ray Meritt, was an American comic book writer for DC Comics. Along with Gil Kane, he co-created the supervillain Sinestro and the Green Lantern Guy Gardner.

Also credited on1 work

Stop the World- I Want to Get Off

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature6 passages

  • Artistic Director, Tina Packer; Associate Director, Dennis Krausnick; Movement, John Broome, Susan Dibble; Fights/Tumbling, B. H. Barry; Business Manager, Ann Olson; Assistant to Miss Packer, Bemadette Colbert; Development, Tim Salvner, Jayne Gall; Sets/Technicaltheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1981-82 Season, v. 38 (Willis).txt
  • COMPANY: Zoe Alexander, Bill Ballou, B. H. Barry, John Broome, Kaia Calhoun, David Coffin, Gregory Uel Cole, Kevin Coleman, Merry Conway, Dawn Darfus, J. P. Elins, John Hadden, Gregory Johnson, Dennis Krausnick, Michael Lamothe, Kristin LinUater, Judianna Lunseth, Paul Massie, Virginia Ness, James Newcomb, Bruce Odland, Tim Saukiavicus, R…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1981-82 Season, v. 38 (Willis).txt
  • Tina Packer; Associate Director, Dennis Krausnick; Movement, John Broome; Fights and tumbling, B. H. Barry; Sets/Lighting/Technical Director, Bill Ballou; Costumes, Kiki Smith; Assistant Designer, Janet Kalas; Stage Managers, J. P. Elins, Rich Meyer, Ann Ostermayer; Managing Director, Walter Perner, Jr.; Business Manager, Ann Olson; Press…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1982-83 Season, v. 39 (Willis).txt
  • Dennis Krausnick; Director of Fight and Tumbling. B. H Barrv; Movement. John Broome; Sets and Lighting. Bill Ballou: Costumes.'Kiki Smith; Production Manager. Bill Ballou; Wardrobe. Georgia Camcs; General Manager. Ann Olson; Press, Judv Salsbup,. Kathy White, Susannah Rake; Development, Beth Logan Balmuth; Marketing. Eric Pourchot; Assist…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1984-85 Season, v. 41 (Willis).txt
  • PRODl'CTIONS AND CASTS A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM by William Shakespeare; Directors. Tina Packer, Kevin Coleman; Music. BruceOdland;Choreography. John Broome; Clown Master. Merry Conway; Stage Manager. J. P. Elins.theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1984-85 Season, v. 41 (Willis).txt
  • verman- Lighting, Michael J. Whitfield, Elizabeth Asselstine; Assistant Michael Shamata, Brian Rintoul; Fight Supervision, John Broome; Stage Managers, Campbell (King Victoria Klein, Peter McGuire; Sound, John Hazen. CAST: Douglas Nicholas Pennell, James Lear), Patricia Collins, Maria Ricossa, Seana McKenna, Lewis Gordon. Renton, Blendick…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1985-86 Season, v. 42 (Willis).txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — choreographer — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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