Joseph Papp

Joseph Papp was an American theatrical producer and director. He established The Public Theater in what had been the Astor Library Building in Lower Manhattan. There Papp created a year-round producing home to focus on new plays and musicals. Among numerous examples of these were the works of David Rabe, Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Charles Gordone's No Place to Be Somebody, and Papp's production of Michael Bennett's Pulitzer Prize–winning musical A Chorus Line. Papp also founded Shakespeare in the Park, helped to develop other off-Broadway theatres and worked to preserve the historic Broadway Theatre District.

22 June 1921

Born on the same birth date (22 June 1921): Barbara Perry (actress) • Barbara Vucanovich • Radovan Ivšić

Born on the same birth day (22 June): Carson Daly • Daniel Xuereb • Ebenezer Erskine • Garry Gary Beers • Ian Kinsler • James H. Pomerene • Oskar Fischinger • Rachid Solh • Stephanie Jacobsen • Thomas Leuluai • Tom Dula

Born in the same month (June 1921): Alexis Smith • Arthur Hertzberg • Barbara Perry (actress) • Betty Freeman • Bobby Wanzer • Byron Farwell • Christopher Derrick • Ernie Royal • Erroll Garner • Forbes Carlile • Gerhard Sommer • Gordon McLendon • James Archibald Houston • Jean Kent • Jean Lacouture • LeRoy Neiman • Lennart Strand • Milan Komar • Muriel Pavlow • Radovan Ivšić • Reinhard Mohn • Violette Szabo • William Edwin Self