Joe Masteroff

Emerging from a Philadelphia Jewish family, he completed studies at Temple University before serving in the Army Air Forces and later refining his craft at the American Theatre Wing between 1949 and 1951. Initially an actor, he appeared on Broadway in 1953 and soon after launched his first play, The Warm Peninsula, at the Hayes Theater in 1959. His reputation grew with the 1963 musical She Love… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources