Judith Malina Biography

Fast Facts

• Worked as a singing waitress in New York City before starting the Living Theatre
• First began developing the Living Theatre with her husband, Julian Beck, in the late 1940s and staged the troupe's first public production, "Dr․ Faustus Lights the Lights," in 1951
• Quote: "I demand everything - total love, an end to all forms of violence and cruelty such as money, hunger, prisons, people doing work they hate․ We can have tractors and food and joy․ I demand it now!"
• Best known for playing Granny in "The Addams Family" and as the founder of the political activism troupe the Living Theatre