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- The Mirror Theater was founded by Sabra Jones in 1983, who was also the Founding Artistic Director. The first program of the theater was the Mirror Repertory Company (MRC). Founding members of the company included Eva Le Gallienne, John Strasberg, and Geraldine Page. Sabra Jones reached out to Ellis Rabb, artistic director of the APA Phoenix Repertory Company, John Houseman of the Mercury Theater, and Eva Le Gallienne of the Civic Repertory Theatre Company. The company was intended to be "an alternating repertory company in the classic sense" of actor-manager leadership, which Rabb, Houseman, and La Gallienne pioneered. Alternating repertory refers to when one company performs a variety of plays in the same season with the same actors, which was formerly a mainstay of theater tradition. This system has been attributed with helping actors grow in their craft through a wide variety of roles. MRC was funded in its inception primarily by philanthropistLaurance S. Rockefeller, with additional donations from philanthropists and actors such as Paul Newman, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, and others. (en)
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- Eva Le Gallienne, F. Murray Abraham, Geraldine Page, Lynn Redgrave, Anthony Hopkins, John Strasberg, Austin Pendleton, Tina Chen, Geraint Wyn Davies, Maxwell Caulfield, Julie Harris, Juliet Mills, Mason Adams, David Cryer, Matthew Cowles, Marilyn Miller, Tom Waites, Ellis Rabb, Lisa Pelikan, Elizabeth Franz, Arthur Storch, Sean Haberle, Steven Weber, Madeleine Sherwood, Carrie Nye, Jane White, Ronald Rand, Marla Schaffel, Brian Cox, Nicole Ansari, Eve Pomerance, Will River Mossek, Lily McAteer, Sabra Jones, Charles McAteer, Clark Middleton, Myriam Cyr, Kathryn Meisle, Katherine Paterson, Daniel Gerroll, Elizabeth Ireland McCann, Jennifer Tipton, Gail Cooper-Hecht, F. Mitchell Dana, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kate Burton, Jonathan Tunick, John Lee Beatty, Patricia Zipprodt, Nicolas Martin, Mary Louise Wilson, James Rebhorn, Victor Slezak, Matthew Cowles, Mason Adams, Margaret Barker, Michael Moriarty, Peter Mark Shifter, James Tilton, Shirley Knight, Randy Charnin, Gina Belafont, Will Patton, Enrico Colantoni, Willa Kim, Jess Osuna, Marcus Ho, Clem Fowler (en)
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- The Mirror Theater was founded by Sabra Jones in 1983, who was also the Founding Artistic Director. The first program of the theater was the Mirror Repertory Company (MRC). Founding members of the company included Eva Le Gallienne, John Strasberg, and Geraldine Page. Sabra Jones reached out to Ellis Rabb, artistic director of the APA Phoenix Repertory Company, John Houseman of the Mercury Theater, and Eva Le Gallienne of the Civic Repertory Theatre Company. The company was intended to be "an alternating repertory company in the classic sense" of actor-manager leadership, which Rabb, Houseman, and La Gallienne pioneered. Alternating repertory refers to when one company performs a variety of plays in the same season with the same actors, which was formerly a mainstay of theater tradition. Th (en)
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