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Gene Saks |
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GENE SAKS (Director) has won three Tony Awards (Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and I Love My Wife), two Drama Desk Awards, and twice has had three shows running simultaneously on Broadway. His first success was Enter Laughing (1963), which introduced Alan Arkin; followed by Nobody Loves an Albatross with Robert Preston; Half a Sixpence with Tommy Steele; Generation with Henry Fonda; Mame with Angela Lansbury; Same Time Next Year with Ellen Burstyn and Charles Grodin; How the Other Half Loves by Alan Ayckbourn, with Phil Silvers and Sandy Dennis; Art Buchwald's Sheep on the Runway; and eight successes by Neil Simon: Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues with Matthew Broderick, Broadway Bound, California Suite, Rumors, the female version of The Odd Couple, Jake's Women with Alan Alda, and Lost in Yonkers, which won a Pulitzer Prize for the author, and Tonys for Irene Worth, Mercedes Ruehl and Kevin Spacey. In London, Mr. Saks directed The Man Who Came to Dinner for the RSC, and the musical I Love My Wife, which he originally directed in New York. His films include Barefoot in the Park with Jane Fonda and Robert Redford; The Odd Couple with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau; Cactus Flower with Ingrid Bergman and Goldie Hawn; Mame with Lucille Ball; A Fine Romance with Marcello Mastroianni and Julie Andrews; and, for ABC-TV, Bye, Bye Birdie with Jason Alexander, Vanessa Williams and Tyne Daly. As an actor, Mr. Saks has appeared on Broadway in South Pacific, The Tenth Man, A Shot in the Dark and A Thousand Clowns, and in films with Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft in Prisoner of Second Avenue, Dudley Moore in Marshall Brickman's Love Sick, Paul Newman in Nobody's Fool, and Meg Ryan, Tim Robbins and Walter Matthau in I.Q. He was last represented on Broadway by Barrymore, for which Christopher Plummer won the Tony Award. Mr. Saks is past president of the SSDC, has received the George Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement in the theatre, and was elected to the Theatre Hall of Fame in 1992.
Bio as of November, 2006.
Working in the Theatre (video)
Playwright and Director - April, 2002
Playwright, Director and Choreographer - April, 1997
Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)
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