John Hirsch

John Hirsch

Infobox actor
name = John Hirsch


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location = Siófok, Hungary
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deathplace = Toronto, Ontario

John Stephen Hirsch (May 1, 1930 – August 1, 1989) was an Hungarian-Canadian theater director. He was born in Siófok, Hungary, and escaped Hungary during World War Two as a refugee orphan. Hirsch was the adoptive son of Pauline Shack who resided in Winnipeg who had two children of her own, Sybil Shack and Frida Shack Katz. "HIRSCH, John", Globe & Mail. August 3, 1989.]

In 1957, Hirsch and Tom Hendry co-founded Theatre 77, which they combined with the Winnipeg Little Theatre in 1958 to form the Manitoba Theatre Centre (with Hirsch as artistic director). MTC was destined to be the model for regional theatres across Canada. He directed many productions at MTC, the Stratford Festival, the National Arts Centre, Toronto Arts Productions, Young People's Theatre, the Shaw Festival. His 1976 Stratford production of "Three Sisters" won great acclaim. [ [http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Hirsch%2C%20John%20Stephen Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia ] ]

He was co-director at the Stratford Festival (1967-1969), head of television drama for the CBC (1974-1978), and Artistic Director at the Stratford Festival (1981-1985).

In the United States, Hirsch won the Outer Circle Critics' Award for "Saint Joan" at Lincoln Center, and an Obie Award for "AC/DC" at the Chelsea Theater in New York. In 1975, he won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for "The Dybbuk" at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, a play he translated and adapted. In 1967, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his contribution to the performing Arts". [ [http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=770 Order of Canada] ]

Hirsch died after being hospitalized at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario on August 1, 1989.

ee also

* Stratford Festival of Canada
* The Time of Your Life

References

External links

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* [http://www.mbwriter.mb.ca/mapindex/h_profiles/hist_hirsch.html Manitoba Writers' Guild Inc. profile]
* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0003781 John Stephen Hirsch] at The Canadian Encyclopedia


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