Born February 12, 1939· Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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Emerging from a Midwestern upbringing-born in Kansas City, Missouri, raised between Chicago and a fruit farm in La Porte, Indiana-John D. Hancock earned a Harvard degree and continued theatrical studies in Europe on a grant, where he observed Bertolt Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble. He began directing Off-Broadway at twenty-two with Brecht’s Man Equals Man, later won an Obie for a 1968 staging of A Mid…