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Wilford Leach

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Director 1929–1988

Carson Wilford Leach (August 26, 1928 – June 18, 1988) was an American theatre director, set designer, film director, screenwriter, and professor.

Also credited on3 works

The Pirates Of Penzance
The Human Comedy
The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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 literature8 passages

  • That was the most fun job I’ve ever had. It was an incredible group of people: [director] Wilford Leach, [choreographer] Graciela Daniele, [producer] Joe Papp, [author] Rupert Holmes, [actors] George Rose, Cleo Laine, Patti Cohenour, Howard McGillin … Amazing, amazing group! It was a great show. So much fun!ebooks/Shapiro, Eddie/Nothing Like a Dame_ Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater - Eddie Shapiro.txt
  • directed by Wilford Leach choreographed by Graciela Daniele produced by Joseph Papp for the New York Betheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
  • nically dazzling, were too arch and silly and old-fashioned for popular consumption. Or so it appeared, when Joe Papp gave director Wilford Leach and musical adapter William Elliott a Shakespeare-in-the-Park slot to give it a go. The rejuvenated, rambunctious, centenarian Pirates commandeered Manhattan, sailing downriver (via Columbus Cir…theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
  • Producer, Joseph Papp; Associate Producer, Bernard Gersten; Direction and Sets, Wilford Leach; Costumes, Carol Oditz; Light-theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1978-79, v. 35 (Willis).txt
  • MARIE AND BRUCE By Wallace Shawn; Director, Wilford Leach; Scenery, Jim Clayburgh, Wilford Leach; Costumes, Patricia McGourty; Lighting, Martin Tudor; Assistant to Director, Jack Chandler;theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1979-80 Season, v. 36 (Willis).txt
  • Wilford Leach; Costumes, Patricia McGourty; Lighting, Jennifer Tipton; Associate Set Designer, Jack Chandler; Production Supervisor, Jason Steven Cohen; Production Assistant, Jeff Marcus; Assistant to Director, Jack Chandler; Hair, Wigs and Make up, Marliestheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1979-80 Season, v. 36 (Willis).txt

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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 — director — 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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