1. Michael E Feingold was an American critic, translator, lyricist, playwright and dramaturg.
22 Facts About Michael Feingold
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Michael Feingold was the lead theater critic of The Village Voice from 1982 to 2013, for which he was twice named a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism finalist, and was a two-time recipient of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.
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Michael Feingold was a judge for the Obie Awards for 31 years, and the chairman for nine years.
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Michael Feingold grew up in Chicago and in Highland Park, where he attended the local high school and was a member of the school's drama club.
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Michael Feingold graduated from Columbia University in 1966 with a degree in English and comparative literature.
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At Yale, Michael Feingold intended to study playwriting, but moved towards criticism at Brustein's suggestion.
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Michael Feingold was the first literary manager of the Yale Repertory Theatre, and served as literary director of The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and literary manager of the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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In 1982, Michael Feingold was serving as a dramaturg for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut, and was instrumental in furthering the career of playwright August Wilson, helping to edit Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, which impressed New York Times theatre critic Frank Rich, who was in the audience for the reading of the trimmed-down version of the play.
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Michael Feingold began contributing to the Village Voice in 1971 and served as its chief theater critic from 1983 through May 2013.
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Michael Feingold shared nominations for two Tony Awards in 1977 for the Brecht-Weill musical "Happy End": for Best Book of a Musical, for his adaptation of Elisabeth Hauptmann's libretto, and for Best Score, for his adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's lyrics.
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Michael Feingold was the translation lyricist for the 1972 revue Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill.
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On May 17,2013, after 42 years as a writer at the Village Voice, and over three decades as its primary theater critic, Michael Feingold's contract was not renewed.
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On January 12,2016, Michael Feingold announced his return to the Village Voice to write a twice-monthly column for a new Voice website.
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Michael Feingold was a judge for the Obie Awards for 31 seasons, and served as its chairman from 2006 to 2011 and from 2012 to 2014.
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Michael Feingold was a member of the New York Drama Critics Circle, which presents the annual New York Drama Critics Circle Awards.
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Michael Feingold was a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1977.
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Michael Feingold was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, in 1992 and 2010.
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Michael Feingold had the ability to take an aerial view of the work under consideration.
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Michael Feingold wrote with an understanding of the practical demands of theatrical production.
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Michael Feingold wrote for insiders, in which group he included everyone with a passionate regard for the art form.
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Michael Feingold's loyalty was to the theatre and its tenuous survival.
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Michael Feingold died on November 21,2022, at Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital in Manhattan, New York City from aortic valve disease at the age of 77.