Jack Gelber, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jack Gelber

American playwright

Date of Birth: 12-Apr-1932

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 09-May-2003

Profession: writer, playwright, author

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Jack Gelber (April 12, 1932 – May 9, 2003) was an American playwright best known for his 1959 drama The Connection, depicting the life of drug-addicted jazz musicians.
The first great success of the Living Theatre, the play was translated into five languages and produced in ten nations.
Gelber continued to work and write in New York, where he also taught writing, directing and drama as a professor, chiefly at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, where he created the MFA program in playwriting.
In 1999 he received the Edward Albee Last Frontier Playwright Award in recognition of his lifetime of achievements in theatre.