Marianne de Pury, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Swiss theatre director and composer
Date of Birth: 03-Apr-1935
Place of Birth: St. Gallen, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Profession: theater director
Nationality: Switzerland
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Marianne de Pury
- Marianne de Pury (born 3 April 1935) is a theatre artist and composer born in St.
- Gallen, Switzerland.
- She is best known as the musical composer of two 1966 anti-war plays, Jean-Claude van Itallie's social satire America Hurrah and Megan Terry's rock musical Viet Rock.De Pury studied piano and composition at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève.
- She enjoyed the performing arts from a young age and, as a teen, she made frequent trips to Paris to see theatre.
- Later she moved to New York City, where she studied as an apprentice under the Open Theatre's director Joseph Chaikin.
- There she forged connections with artists active in New York's avant-garde theatre scene as well as the Black Panther Party.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.
- Their ensemble improvisations at the Open Theatre laboratory resulted in Viet Rock, widely recognized as the first rock musical written and produced in the United States.
- De Pury followed the production as an accompanist when it premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1966 and later transferred to the Off-Broadway Martinique Theatre on 10 November 1966.During her time in the United States, de Pury also served as composer-in-residence for the Yale School of Drama and worked as a translator for the French playwright Jean Genet.De Pury is founder of the Santa Fe Ensemble Theatre in New Mexico and has directed free-lance productions in Basel, Bern, Bonn, Dublin, Sarajevo, Melbourne, New York and Cameroun.
- Upon returning to Switzerland, she became the administrative director of the Theatre de Carouge, a three-stage performing space in Geneva, Switzerland.
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