Playwright, actor and lyricist Edward Gallardo died Thursday, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed with his family. He was 70.
Gallardo was best known for the play Simpson Street, which followed a Hispanic family trying to escape a dead-end life in the South Bronx, where the writer was born. The play premiered in 1979 at New York's Puerto Rican Traveling Theater and was performed throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe.
Gallardo's additional early theater credits include Bernie, which premiered at New York's Theatre Ensemble in 1969 and went on to be produced in Paris and Amsterdam; Miss George Alliance, Rondelay, Cordelia, Waltz on a ...
Gallardo was best known for the play Simpson Street, which followed a Hispanic family trying to escape a dead-end life in the South Bronx, where the writer was born. The play premiered in 1979 at New York's Puerto Rican Traveling Theater and was performed throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe.
Gallardo's additional early theater credits include Bernie, which premiered at New York's Theatre Ensemble in 1969 and went on to be produced in Paris and Amsterdam; Miss George Alliance, Rondelay, Cordelia, Waltz on a ...
- 6/28/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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