Julian Beck
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Emerging from a Manhattan upbringing, he briefly attended Yale before abandoning formal studies to pursue writing, abstract expressionist painting, and a passion for theatre that blossomed after meeting Judith Malina in 1943; together they founded the avant-garde Living Theatre in 1947, where he co-directed productions inspired by Antonin Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty and often courted controversy,…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
