Gene Feist
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Gene Feist is an American
playwright, theatre director and co-founder of the Roundabout Theater Company.
Feist is the author of fifteen plays or adaptations, of which two were published by Samuel French Inc.
— James Joyce's Dublin and The Lady from Maxim's.
They revived the New Theater in Nashville, Tennessee
, and, in 1965, Gene and Kathe Feist founded the Roundabout Theatre Company, first located in the basement of a supermarket building owned by the housing development in Manhattan
where the Feists lived, known as Penn South. Owens appeared in more than 30 plays over the next 25 years. Gene Feist remains as the Roundabout's Founding Director.
, aged 77, on March 7, 2005. She is survived by her husband, two daughters, a grandson and a granddaughter.
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playwright, theatre director and co-founder of the Roundabout Theater Company.
Feist is the author of fifteen plays or adaptations, of which two were published by Samuel French Inc.
Samuel French Inc.
Samuel French, Inc. is an American company, founded by Samuel French and Thomas Hailes Lacy, who formed a partnership to combine their existing interests in London and New York...
— James Joyce's Dublin and The Lady from Maxim's.
Marriage
He married stage actress Irma "Kathe" Schneider (February 26, 1928 — March 7, 2005; known professionally as Elizabeth Owens) on February 10, 1957; they had two daughters.They revived the New Theater in Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee
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, and, in 1965, Gene and Kathe Feist founded the Roundabout Theatre Company, first located in the basement of a supermarket building owned by the housing development in Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
where the Feists lived, known as Penn South. Owens appeared in more than 30 plays over the next 25 years. Gene Feist remains as the Roundabout's Founding Director.
Kathe Feist's death
Kathe Feist died from breast cancerBreast cancer
Breast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...
, aged 77, on March 7, 2005. She is survived by her husband, two daughters, a grandson and a granddaughter.