Tom O'Horgan

Infobox actor
name = Tom O'Horgan


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birthname =
birthdate = birth date and age|1926|05|03|df=y
birthplace = Chicago, Illinois, USA
occupation = Theatre director, composer
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yearsactive = 1960s-1990s
awards = Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Director
1968 "Tom Paine"
1969 "Futz"
19971 "Lenny"

Tom O'Horgan (born May 3 1926) is an American theatre and film director and composer.

Biography

Born in Chicago, Illinois, O'Horgan received his degree from DePaul University. Most of his early career work was in off-Broadway experimental theatre productions, including "To the Water Tower", "When the Owl Screams", and "The Wrecking Ball" as composer, "Tom Paine", "Masked Men", and "Birdbath" as director, and "Futz!" as both. In 1974, he conceived and directed a stage adaptation of the Beatles' classic recording "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".

Career

O'Horgan made his Broadway directorial debut in 1968 with the ground-breaking musical "Hair", garnering a Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Musical. Additional Broadway credits include "Lenny", with Cliff Gorman as controversial comedian-satirist Lenny Bruce, "Jesus Christ Superstar", "Dude", "Inner City", "The Leaf People", and "I Won't Dance".

O'Horgan won three Drama Desk Awards for his direction of the off-Broadway plays, "Lenny", "Futz!", and "Tom Paine", and was named Theatrical Director of the Year by "Newsweek" in 1968.

O'Horgan composed the score for and directed the screen adaptation of "Futz!" with Frederic Forrest, Sally Kirkland, and Jennifer O'Neill, composed the score for "Alex in Wonderland", and directed the film version of Eugene Ionesco's "Rhinoceros" with Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, and Karen Black.

References

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* [http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=people&first=Tom&middle=&last=O%27Horgan Tom O'Horgan] at the Internet off-Broadway Database