The Notebook
(May 25, 1936 – September 9, 2021)
Founder
Jean-Claude van Itallie was a renowned Off-Broadway playwright whose work catalyzed a new era in the revolutionary theatre of the 1960s. His play, America Hurrah, was an Off-Broadway hit, hailed as the watershed political play of the era. As playwright for the Open Theater, Jean-Claude wrote The Serpent with the company. His luminous translations of Chekhov’s major plays are revered by directors and actors. Other plays and operas include Bag Lady, Light, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and Mila.
Jean-Claude taught theater at Harvard (his alma mater), Yale, Princeton, NYU, Amherst, University of Colorado, Middlebury, Columbia, and other schools.
“That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.”
“I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.”
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