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van Itallie, Jean‐Claude

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van Itallie, Jean‐Claude (b. 1936), playwright. Born in Brussels, Belgium, and becoming an American citizen in 1952, Van Itallie brought a unique point of view when writing about the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. He was educated at Harvard and the Neighborhood Playhouse and began writing plays in the early 1960s, first getting noticed for his one‐act Motel (1965) at La Mama. Much of his work was written in cooperation with the Open Theatre, an experimental group that premiered a number of his works, such as The Serpent (1969). Van Itallie has also created successful adaptations of plays by Anton Chekhov.

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