1. Larry Carpenter was born on August 12,1948 and is an American theatre and television director and producer.
14 Facts About Larry Carpenter
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Larry Carpenter has served as executive vice president of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, the national labor union for professional stage directors and choreographers.
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Larry Carpenter is a member of the Directors Guild of America PAC.
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Larry Carpenter enrolled in Boston University's School of Fine and Applied Arts as an undergraduate designer and director.
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Larry Carpenter graduated as a director and actor and spent the next several years acting, singing and dancing with the Oregon and San Diego Shakespeare Festivals, the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and with the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, CT.
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From Stratford, Larry Carpenter moved to New York to become managing director of Garland Wright's Lion Theatre Company; and then general manager of the Harold Clurman Theatre.
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Larry Carpenter served as associate artistic director for the Berkshire Theatre Festival.
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Larry Carpenter then combined his theatre career with television to become a director of daytime drama.
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Larry Carpenter has directed the daytime drama As the World Turns, winning his first Daytime Emmy Award.
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Larry Carpenter wrote a new libretto for the Goodspeed Opera House production of Oscar Strauss's operetta The Chocolate Soldier.
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Larry Carpenter significant reworked Meredith Willson's Here's Love for Goodspeed Opera House; and Kiss Me, Kate for the Pioneer Theatre Company.
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Larry Carpenter created a new version of Dion Boucicault's The Shaughraun; for the Huntington and Seattle Repertory theatres; and he adapted The Captain of Koepnick for the Huntington and ACT, San Francisco.
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Larry Carpenter has taught and directed performance projects at the Juilliard School: Theatre Division; New York University: Tisch School of the Arts; American Conservatory Theater Training Program; SUNY Purchase School of Theatre; Rutgers University: Mason Gross School of the Arts; and Marymount Manhattan College.
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In 2002, Larry Carpenter completed his master's degree in 19th Century British Theatre at New York University.