Roberta Sklar
Roberta Sklar | |
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Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Activist, theatre director |
Organization | OutRight Action International |
Spouse | Sondra Segal |
Children | 2 |
Roberta Sklar is an American activist, feminist and award-winning theatre director. She is currently a communications consultant and senior strategist for OutRight Action International (née IGLHRC)and other LGBT Rights advocacy organizations . She formerly served as Director of Communications for The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the Empire State Pride Agenda. Sklar has provided strategic communications consulting to social justice domestic and international organizations.
As a theater director she was the co director of major works (The Serpent, Terminal, the Mutation show, Endgame ) at the Open Theater (1968-1972), and co artistic director of the Women's Experimental Theater with Clare Coss and Sondra Segal (1976-1986). The women's experimental theater produced three original trilogies: The Daughters Cycle: Daughters, Sister/ Sister, and Electra Speaks; and Women's Body and other Natural Resources: Food, Food Talk and Feast or Famine).
Sklar and long-time partner Sondra Segal, a playwright, poet, and essayist, were married in Vancouver, British Columbia in 2003. They have two children and reside in NYC.
References
- "Roberta Sklar". National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. 2008. Archived from the original on May 12, 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-23.
- Chinoy, Helen Krich; Jenkins, Linda Walsh (2006). "Chapter 6, Feminist Theatre". Women in American Theatre. New York: Theatre Communications Group. pp. 317–319. ISBN 1-55936-263-4.
External links
- Roberta Sklar at the Internet off-Broadway Database
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- José Quintero (1956)
- William Ball (1959)
- Ulu Grosbard (1965)
- Joseph Hardy (1967)
- Robert Moore / Tom O'Horgan (1968)
- Tom O'Horgan / Neal Kenyon / Alan Arkin / Michael Schultz / Gordon Davidson / Edwin Sherin (1969)
- Jerzy Grotowski / Alan Arkin / Ron Field / Joseph Hardy / Harold Prince (1970)
- Robert Wilson / Andre Gregory / Peter Brook / Michael Bennett / Harold Prince / Tom O'Horgan / Paul Sills (1971)
- Mel Shapiro / Andrei Serban / Peter Hall / Jeff Bleckner / A. J. Antoon / Mel Shapiro (1972)
- Victor Garcia / Joseph Chaikin / Roberta Sklar / Harold Prince / Bob Fosse / Michael Rudman / Harold Prince (1973)
- José Quintero / Harold Prince / Frank Dunlop / Marvin Felix Camillo / Harold Prince (1974)
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