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Bio: Sidney Eden / Sid Eden
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a mufti-faceted career in the theater spanning five decades, Sidney
Eden, with his internationally-acclaimed production starring
Ben Gazzara, revived and restored Eugene ONeill's
Hughie to the canon of
great American plays, garnering raves from Hollywood to London before
landing on Broadway to great praise (Tony nomination). Eden established
major theaters in San Francisco (Burlingame Music Theater with Herb
Rogers and the Hyatt Corp.) and Chicago (First Chicago Center),
the first first-run theater in the Loop in over 40 years, he has
produced and presented national tours of
A Raisin In The Sun, starring Claudia McNeil, Raymond
St. Jacques, Gloria Foster, Gail Fisher and Al Freeman, Jr., When
You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?, starring playwright Mark
Medoff, as well as Hughie starring Gazzara, in major cities throughout
the U.S. and Canada. Eden's career began with the legendary Kicks
& Co., written by Oscar Brown, Jr., directed by Lorraine
Hansberry and Vinnette Carroll, with a remarkable cast headed by
Burgess Meredith with Nichelle Nichols, Robert Guillame, Alvin Ailey,
Mercedes Ellington and AI Freeman, Jr. among others, for which Eden
was Co-Producer, Production Supervisor and chief money-raiser.
As a director, throughout decades of summer and
winter stock Eden has staged revivals of You
Can't Take It With You, starring Edgar Bergen, Guys
And Dolls, starring Alan Aida and High
Button Shoes, starring Larry Parks and Betty Garrett,
among 50 professional productions at theaters such as the Cleveland
Playhouse, Chicago's Goodman Theater and the Brooklyn Academy of
Music.
As an actor he appeared on and off Broadway in Are
You Now Or Have You Ever Been?; starring Liza Minelli
(Tammy Grimes, Barbara Baxley, Frances Sternhagen, Dina Merrill,
Louise Lasser, et, al.) created the role of Leonard Poefty in Julian
(Lenny) Barry's Sitcom
at the St. Nicholas Theater Co. (Mamet, Macy, & Schacter, Artistic
Directors) and played opposite such stars as Martha Raye, Kaye Ballard,
Hugh O'Brian, Dom DeLuise, Crag Stevens, Bob Crane among others
at major theaters in the U. S. and Canada, is seen in the cult classic
film Spook Who Sat By The Door,
directed by Ivan Dixon, Neil Simon's Chapter
One, directed by Herbert Ross, was featured in Showtime's
filmed presentation of Jay Broad's A Conflict
Of Interest, starring Barnard Hughes, Ed Binns and Roland
Winters, directed by Jose Ferrer, (as well as the Showtime filming
of Are You Now, etc.), and has
appeared on most soaps and in voice-overs and on-camera for countless
commercials for decades.
As a playwright, Eden's George
Jean Nathan In Revue was presented at the Goodman Theater
Stage 2, his Atlantic City Lost
ran Off-Off Broadway in '86, '87 and his Mencken,
Nathan And God was presented at the SSD&C Workshop
at the Bruno Walter Theater at the Lincoln Center for the Performing
Arts.
Eden has written on numerous occasions for the Village
Voice and was full-time TV critic for Broadway Magazine
on TEMPO-NBC-TV national cable network, covering the
entire '87, '88 season.
A student of Jose Ferrer, Jose Quintero and John
Cassavettes, Eden is much in demand as an acting coach and teacher
and his Acting For Non-Actors has been a hit with
both serious pros and those who only use the course far therapy.
With a 2,000 song repetoire he has specilized in recent years on cabaret and recordings, singing and playing the best of Cole Porter, Gershwin, Arlen, Berlin and Kern, among others. on Sid Eden - Alone with Cole Porter & Others.
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