Overview
Joe Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and, subsequently, The Public Theater—arguably the most important theatre in North America—is profiled in this documentary that neither sanctifies nor vilifies him. He brought us free Shakespeare in the Park, Hair and A Chorus Line, and nurtured many of America’s greatest playwrights, directors and actors. His complex personality and mercurial behavior are much in evidence and spoken of with frankness through interviews with some of America’s most celebrated artists, including Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Kevin Kline, and James Earl Jones.
Production
The Papp Project
Cast & Characters
Olympia Dukakis
Self
David Hare
Self
David Henry Hwang
Self
James Earl Jones
Self
Larry Kramer
Self
Joseph Papp
Self
David Rabe
Self
Meryl Streep
Self
Christopher Walken
Self
George C. Wolfe
Self
Directors & Crew
Karen Thorsen
Writer
Tracie Holder
Writer
Tracie Holder
Director
Karen Thorsen
Director
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