Rocco landesman biography
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Rocco landesman biography
Rocco Landesman
American stage producer (born )
Rocco Landesman (born July 20, )[1] is a long-time Broadway theatreproducer. He served as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts from August to December [2][3] He is a part owner of Jujamcyn Theaters.
Early life
Landesman was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He is the nephew of writer, publisher and nightclub owner Jay Landesman and songwriter Fran Landesman.[4] Rocco studied at Colby College and then the University of Wisconsin, Madison (BA English Literature ), and the Yale School of Drama (MFA Dramatic Literature and Criticism , DFA ).[1] At the Yale School of Drama, he became a protégé and friend of Robert Brustein.[5] He also got to know novelist Jerzy Kosinski and worked with Kosinski on two of his novels, Being There and The Devil Tree.
Landesman helped Kosinski, not a native speaker of English, with his English syntax and writing.[5&