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Norman Beim is a prize-winning playwright, actor, and director. Beim has produced and published dozens of plays, and acted on stage, television, and film. Focusing on his work as a playwright from 1952 to 2007, the Norman Beim papers contain play scripts, theater programs, correspondence, travel memorabilia, newspaper clippings, postcards, photographs, and scrapbooks. less

New York's Signature Theatre Company devotes each season to the works of one contemporary playwright, who is directly involved in the productions throughout the season as playwright-in-residence. Founded in January 1991 by artistic director James Houghton, the company was originally located in the East Village for several years before finding a permanent home on West 42nd Street. The company invites each of its chosen playwrights to be involved in all creative decisions: the selection of plays, directors, designers, actors, etc. Playwrights chosen to present a season's worth of work by the Signature Theatre Company include Romulus Linney, Lee Blessing, Edward Albee, Horton Foote, Adrienne Kennedy, Sam Shepard, Arthur Miller, John Guare, Maria Irene Fornes, Lanford Wilson, Bill Irwin, Paula Vogel, and August Wilson. The Signature Theatre Company ephemera consists of clippings, fliers, photocopies, programs, press releases, photographs and other documents pertaining to the company. less