Tanya Berezin(1941-2023)

Well-known to theatre-goers in New York, where she has appeared in scores of plays over the past four decades. She was a founder of Circle Repertory Company, one of the most influential theatres of the '60s and '70s, and for a time was its Artistic Director. Circle Rep produced new plays by such playwrights as Lanford Wilson, Jules Feiffer, Sam Sheppard, and Jon Robin Baitz; the loosely-organized acting company included Jud Hirsch, Robin Bartlett, John Hurt, Mary-Beth Hurt, Mary-Louise Parker, Berezin herself, and her husband Barnard Hughes, among many others. All this in a 150-seat bandbox in the West Village.