{"id":1166,"date":"2024-01-19T22:53:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T22:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/life-style\/tanya-berezin-behind-the-scenes-off-broadway-force-dies-at-82\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T22:53:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T22:53:08","slug":"tanya-berezin-behind-the-scenes-off-broadway-force-dies-at-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/life-style\/tanya-berezin-behind-the-scenes-off-broadway-force-dies-at-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanya Berezin, Behind-the-Scenes Off Broadway Force, Dies at 82"},"content":{"rendered":"


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By the mid-1980s, Tanya Berezin had gone far as a New York stage actress. She had collected glowing reviews for her Off Broadway performances over the years, and she had won an Obie Award for her role in Lanford Wilson\u2019s play \u201cThe Mound Builders\u201d in 1975.<\/p>\n

Even so, she was growing weary of the hustle. \u201cWhen you\u2019re in your 40s it seems really sort of inappropriate<\/a> to be waiting for telephone calls from people to ask you to do a job,\u201d she said in a 1993 interview. \u201cIt just feels really uncomfortable and childish.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her budding career crisis turned out to be an opportunity. In 1986, Ms. Berezin turned her attention from the stage to a highly influential behind-the-scenes role in the theater world: artistic director of the Circle Repertory Company, a storied Off Broadway incubator of talent that she had helped found in 1969.<\/p>\n

Ms. Berezin died on Nov. 29 at the home of her daughter, Lila Thirkield, in San Francisco. She was 82. Ms. Thirkield said the cause of her death, which was not widely reported at the time, was lung cancer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n