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Ike Schambelan
IKE SCHAMBELAN is the Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Theater Breaking Through Barriers (formerly Theater By the Blind) Mr. Schambelan has been a theatrical director, teacher, and critic for 40 years. He has a Bachelors degree from Swarthmore College and a Doctor of Fine Arts from Yale Drama School and has directed at the Long Wharf Theatre, the Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, The New Dramatists, Equity Library Theatre, the Pittsburgh Public Theater, and the George Street Playhouse. He has been Artistic Director of the Touring Company and Children's Theatre at Long Wharf, the Woodstock Playhouse and the Austen Riggs Theatre. He is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and Actors' Equity. He founded Theater By The Blind in 1979. He has had two one acts produced by TBTB, Gus and In The Bin and one full-length, When I'm 64.

Bio as of June, 2009.



American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:

SDCF Masters of the Stage (audio)
Howard DaSilva and Alfred Drake - January, 1985 - Listen Now.
Geraldine Fitzgerald and John Houseman - September, 1985 - Listen Now.