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8 unusual facts about La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club


J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner

After stints as a regular teenager on the New York City based television show This Week's Music (1984) and as an actor in theater off-Broadway, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club.

Josef Mundy

Josef Mundy died in New York City at the age of 59 while rehearsing one of his plays at La Mama Theatre.

Kosovo Ballet

Among them, the Kosovo Ballet worked with American experimental theater La Mama to perform the musical "Diana".

La Mama

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in East Village, Manhattan, New York City, founded 1961

Marianne de Pury

In 1965 she began a collaborative project with playwright and director Megan Terry who was working on a devised performance piece for the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club protesting the Vietnam War.

Music of Buryatia

Their collaborations with La MaMa theater in New York in late 1990s led to their embrace of traditional music and shamanic roots too, and eventually to formation of the group Namgar that represents Buryat traditional music at world music festivals since 2001.

Tadeusz Kantor

In the 1990s, his works became well known in the United States due to presentations at Ellen Stewart's La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club which inspired Lower East Side cultural leaders such as the Nuyorican poet Giannina Braschi.

The Rhodopi International Theater Collective

The RITC/RITL developed performances that went on to subsequent productions, runs and tours at a number of theaters, including, in the United States alone, the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, the Long Wharf Theatre, the McCarter Theater, and the Mixed Blood Theatre Company, among others.


Cypher Zero

2005 - Nominated for a New York Innovative Theater Award for Ellen Stewart's play Perseus at La MaMa, E.T.C., Honoree for Outstanding Choreography/Movement, along with Renaurd Gee, Maureen Fleming, Juliana Lau, Frederico Restrepo and Chris Wild.


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