User:Fiddlerrob/Bob moss

Bob Moss is an icon of 20th century American Theatre. He is best known for founding Playwrights Horizons in 1971, which grew under his watch to become a major contributor to the development of more than 100 playwrights, including Albert Innaurato, Ted Tally, Wendy Wasserstein and James Lapine. In addition, he was the director of the Playwrights Horizons Theatre School and co-founded the Off-Off Broadway Alliance in 1972 and the Forty-Second Street Gang in 1975. Some parts of his work and life are detailed in the book, Ghosts of 42nd Street. Later he served as Artistic Director of both the Hangar Theatre and Syracuse Stage. Moss has worked at many of the nation's regional theatres as a freelance director and been a board member of Theatre Communications Group as well as an onsite evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts.