In Memoriam: MARGARET CROYDEN
March, 2015
Margaret Croyden was a distinguished journalist, theater scholar, a long-time Drama Desk voter, and a member of The League of Professional Theatre Women. died last night.
At the Annual General Drama Desk Meeting on November 12, 2014, Margret was honored for
her contributions to arts, journalism and to The Drama Desk organization. Similarly, as a long time member of The League of Professional Theatre Women, Margret was most recently our
recipient of a LPTW Life Time Achievement Award.
Over the years, Margaret’s articles and criticism have appeared in The Village Voice, The Nation, New York Times, TheaterWeek, and American Theater Magazine, among other publications. Her books include and the groundbreaking 1974 study Lunatics, Lovers, and Poets: The Contemporary Experimental Theater. During the 1970s, Margaret was host of the television arts program “Camera Three” on CBS; and, for the past 17 years, she contributed a regular column, “Croyden’s Corner,” to New York Theatre Wire. Her collected works, including over 50 taped interviews with Peter Brook and other theater figures, to original manuscripts, have been archived in Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library.
Information about her background and about her life as an actress and a journalist as described in her recently published book, The Years In Between, can be found at http://margaretcroyden.com.
Margret was a true theatre pioneer and a women warrior for experimental theatre.
~ Maxine Kern, former Co-President of the LPTW
