Edwin Sherin was an American-Canadian director and producer.
15 Facts About Edwin Sherin
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Edwin Sherin grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and Inwood, Manhattan.
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Edwin Sherin had a sister, Edith Sherin Markson, who was among the founders of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater.
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When he was 16 years old, Edwin Sherin dropped out of DeWitt Clinton High School and traveled to West Texas, where he worked on a cattle ranch.
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Edwin Sherin eventually resumed his education at the Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs, graduating in 1948.
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Edwin Sherin started out as an actor, training at the Paul Mann's Actors Workshop and studying with John Houseman at the American Shakespeare Theatre.
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Edwin Sherin met Jane Alexander while serving as the resident director at Washington, DC's Arena Stage, where he cast her and James Earl Jones in The Great White Hope.
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Edwin Sherin directed Alexander in First Monday in October on Broadway in 1978, Hedda Gabler at the Hartman Theatre in 1981 in the American Playhouse television movie A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, in 1991.
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Edwin Sherin directed six plays at Washington, DC's Arena Stage, one per season for six consecutive seasons: The Wall, Galileo, St Joan, Macbeth, The Iceman Cometh, and King Lear.
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Edwin Sherin won the 1969 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director for The Great White Hope and was nominated for a 1974 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, for Find Your Way Home.
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In 1974, Edwin Sherin directed a revival of A Streetcar Named Desire at London's Piccadilly Theatre with Claire Bloom, Martin Shaw, Joss Ackland, and Morag Hood.
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In 2009, Edwin Sherin directed Alexander again in Thom Thomas's A Moon to Dance By at The Pittsburgh Playhouse, an then at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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Edwin Sherin directed the television films Lena: My 100 Children, The Father Clements Story, Settle the Score, Daughter of the Streets, and A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz.
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Edwin Sherin directed two theatrical films: Valdez Is Coming with Burt Lancaster and Susan Clark and My Old Man's Place with William Devane and Michael Moriarty.
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Edwin Sherin died on May 4,2017, in Nova Scotia, aged 87.