Larry Carpenter
| Larry Carpenter | |
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August 12, 1948 Brockport, New York, United States |
Larry Carpenter (born August 12, 1948) is an American theatre and television director, and producer. In the theatre, he has worked as an Artistic Director, Associate Artistic Director, a Managing Director and General Manager in both the New York and Regional Arenas. He also works as a theatre director and is known primarily for large projects working on musicals and classical plays. In television, he works as a director for New York daytime drama. He is Executive Vice President of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, the national labor union for professional stage directors and choreographers. He is also a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Political Action Committee of the Directors Guild of America,
Born and raised in Brockport, New York, Carpenter became involved in the theatre at age 12. In his hometown, SUNY Brockport offered a Theatre Arts major and produced a semi-professional summer theatre where he worked as a backstage hand and as young actor with such touring stars as Peggy Wood, Ann Harding and Leo G. Carroll. He enrolled in Boston University College of Fine Arts as an undergraduate designer and director. He graduated as a director and actor and spent the next several years acting, singing and dancing with the Oregon and San Diego Shakespeare Festivals, the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and with the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, CT
At the American Shakespeare Theatre, and subsequently at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ, he became the Associate Artistic Director to Michael Kahn. He also met and married his wife of 36 years: Julia MacKenzie.
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