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Benjamin Mordecai III: 1944-2005.(in memoriam)(Obituary)
American Theatre, September, 2005 by Wilson, August
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Benjamin Mordecai, who was associate dean and chairman of the Yale School of Drama's department of theatre management, as well as a former managing director of Yale Repertory Theatre and founder/producing director of Indiana Repertory Theatre, was the only person to have worked on all the plays in August Wilson's 10-play cycle.
Mordecai brought five Wilson works (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson and Two Trains Running) to Broadway. In partnership with Wilson, Mordecai subsequently founded the production company Sageworks, dedicated to ...
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