Maria Ley-Piscator, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Austrian dancer
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Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
About Maria Ley-Piscator
- Maria Ley-Piscator (born Friederike Flora Czada, 1 August 1898 – 14 October 1999) is best known as the wife of Erwin Piscator (1893–1966), Germany's famous left-wing theater director.
- Born on 1 August 1898 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria), Maria Ley sought to create a theatrical career for herself as a dancer in Paris and Berlin.
- Later, she turned to choreography and helped in several stage productions with Max Reinhardt, including A Midsummer Night's Dream. Maria Ley also studied literature at the Sorbonne, where she met Erwin Piscator (her third husband) during his exile in 1936.
- After marrying in Paris, the couple moved to Manhattan in 1939, where they founded the Dramatic Workshop at the New School for Social Research.
- Their students included Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando and Tony Randall.
- Ley-Piscator directed several theatrical productions off Broadway. During the 1970s she worked as a teacher at the Southern Illinois University Carbondale and at Stony Brook University.
- Ley-Piscator died in New York in 1999 at the age of 101.
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