Joseph Kutrzeba (10/11/1927 – 1/24/2013) was a Polish-American theater producer, writer, and director. He was born in Poland during the Holocaust and graduated from a music conservatoire in Vienna. He moved to the United States in 1950 and served in the United States Army in the Korean War. Kutrzeba then earned an M.F.A. from Yale Drama School and a Ph.D. from New York University. He was the founder and producer of Queens Playhouse and was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for best producer of a rock opera. He also won the Bronze Award in the International Film and TV Festival in New York. Kutzreba produced several more shows, wrote a book, and recorded an oral history that can be heard in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Joseph Kutrzeba
Studios
Irving Fine
Joseph Kutrzeba worked in the Irving Fine studio.
Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…