Theodore Mann, co-founded Circle in the Square Theatre along with Jose Quintero in 1951 and currently acts as Artistic Director for Circle. Mr. Mann has presented over 200 productions including Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke with Geraldine Page that is recognized today as being responsible for the birth of the Off-Broadway theatre movement. Among many other theatrical achievements he directed Mourning becomes Electra with Colleen Dewhurst, The Iceman Cometh with James Earl Jones, A Moon for the Misbegotten with Salome Jens, Ah, Wilderness! with Geraldine Fitzgerald, The Glass Menagerie with Maureen Stapleton and Rip Torn, The Night of the Iguana with Jane Alexander, John and Abigail with Salome Jens, Pal Joey with Marilu Henner and Dixie Carter, Romeo and Juliet with Pamela Payton Wright, The Boys in Autumn with George C. Scott and John Cullum, Where's Charley? with Raul Julia, and Awake and Sing with Nancy Marchand and Harry Hamlin. Mr. Mann received the 1999 Tao House Award from the Eugene O'Neill Foundation for his distinguished career in theatre and for his championing the works of O'Neill.