- unitid
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{"value"=>"*T-Mss 2014-192", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"23119", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b20849377", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1969-2013", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1969/2013"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1969
- date_inclusive_end
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2013
- keydate
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1969
- date_start
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1969
- date_end
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2013
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Victor Bumbalo papers"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2.94 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"7 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"id"=>"THE", "value"=>"Billy Rose Theatre Division"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Victor Bumbalo papers date from 1969 to 2013 and document Bumbalo's career as a playwright and television writer. The collection includes scripts, clippings, photographs, and publicity material."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Victor Bumbalo papers, *T-Mss 2014-192. Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Bumbalo, Victor", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"creator"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Born in Utica, New York, in 1942, Victor Bumbalo has written extensively for theatre, television, and film. He received his master's degree in theatre from Bennington College in 1967, where he studied under Bernard Malamud. Immediately after graduating, Bumbalo moved with his husband Tom to New York City, where he established himself as a director and writer in the Off- and Off-Off Broadway theatre community in New York City. During the summers of 1968 to 1970, he served as artistic director of the noted Soul and Latin Theatre (SALT) in Harlem. By the late 1970s, Bumbalo began particularly focusing his playwriting on the lives of gay men, their friends, lovers, and families. Several of his works were produced by John Glines' theatre company, including <span class=\"title\">Kitchen Duty</span> and <span class=\"title\">Niagara Falls</span> Bumbalo's other major plays include <span class=\"title\">Show</span> <span class=\"title\">What are Tuesdays Like?</span>, <span class=\"title\">Questa</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Adam and the Experts.</span> During the 1980s and early 1990s, Bumbalo was also very active as a team leader with the Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) organization in New York City, and HIV/AIDS figures in many of his plays from this period. Bumbalo's plays have been consistently produced across the United States and internationally and most have been published.</p> <p>In recognition of his body of work, Bumbalo received the Ingram Merrill Award for Playwriting in 1987, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in 2006 for <span class=\"title\">Questa</span> and again in 2007 for <span class=\"title\">Niagara Falls.</span> During the 1980s, Bumbalo was also awarded two residences at the McDowell Colony and one at Yaddo. In honor of his friend and fellow playwright, in 1993 Bumbalo established the Robert Chesley/VictorBumbalo Foundation to support residencies for emerging LGBT playwrights at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico.</p> <p>In 1995, Bumbalo moved to Los Angeles to focus on writing for television, most notably for David Milch's NYPD Blue and for CBS's American Gothic, as well as HBO's Spawn and ABC's Relativity. Bumbalo also wrote several movies of the week that were produced by major networks. With Dan Lauria, who appeared in <span class=\"title\">Questa,</span> he co-authored the screenplay, <span class=\"title\">Book of Joe.</span> He also wrote for Nickelodeon and for 20th Century Fox Animation. Bumbalo was also the writer, director, and producer of the 2010 short film <span class=\"title\">Two Boys,</span> which won recognition at several film festivals. He is currently working on new theatrical pieces and is a practicing Buddhist Dharma teacher.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Victor Bumbalo papers date from 1969 to 2013. The bulk of the collection documents Bumbalo's plays and television episodes through scripts, clippings, and publicity material. The files document both the plays' original runs and later productions. There is also a grouping of material (Box 7) comprised of articles written by and about Bumbalo, including an editorial written by Bumbalo about the Gay Men's Health Crisis, and ephemera.</p> <p>A detailed listing of items included in the collection can be found as an Additional Resource.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated by Victor Bumbalo, 2014.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled in <span class=\"date\">2015</span>.</p>"}
- accessrestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>Video recording is unavailable pending digitization.</p>"}
- dsc_type
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combined
- extent_statement
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2.94 linear feet (7 boxes)