Judith Malina

Birth Name:

Judith Malina

Birth Place:

Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Profession

Actress, Director

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
Worked as a singing waitress in New York City before starting the Living Theatre
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

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