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Theatre Biographies-- Online
Credo Reference
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This resource contains theatre-specific resources that may locate biographical information.
Credo Reference: Biography
This resource may assist you in locating biographies of those involved in the Theatre.
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Provides biographical information on dramatists. This is an electronic resource. You will need your NetID and password in order to access it from off-campus.
Theatre Biography--Print
Performing arts biography master index: a consolidated index to over 270,000 biographical sketches of persons living and dead, as they appear in over 100 of the principal biographical dictionaries devoted to the performing arts. Detroit: Gale, 1981.
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Edited by Barbara McNeil and Miranda C. Herbert.
Call Number: 790.209 X M169p 1981
Stage deaths: a biographical guide to international theatrical obituaries, 1850 to 1990. 2 vols. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
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Bryan, George B.
Call Number: 791.0922 X S779, v.1-2.
Contemporary theatre, film, and television. Vol. 1-present. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co., c1984-
Call Number: 792 W6281 v.01
Theatrical directors: a biographical dictionary. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.
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Edited by John W. Frick.
Call Number: 792.0232 T374
The great stage directors: 100 distinguished careers of the theater. New York, NY : Facts on File, 1994
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Leiter, Samuel L.
Call Number: 792.0233 L533g
International dictionary of theatre. 3 vols. Chicago: St. James Press, c1992-
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Hawkins-Dady, Mark.
Call Number: 792.03 I612
Who's who in comedy : comedians, comics, and clowns from vaudeville to today's stand-ups. New York: Facts on File, 1992.
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Smith, Ronald L.
Call Number: 792.2 S658w
Contemporary American dramatists. 1st ed. Detroit: St. James Press, c1994.
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Berney, K.A.
Call Number: 812.509 C761
Contemporary British dramatists. London ; Detroit : St. James Press, c1994.
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Berney, K.A.
Call Number: 822.9109 C7613
Obituaries in the Performing Arts. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co.
Call Number: 790.20922 O12 1995
Theatrical designers: an international biographical dictionary. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992.
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Edited by Thomas J. Mikotowica
Call Number: 792.02503 T374
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