Stephen joseph biography

Stephen C. Joseph

American politician

Stephen Carl Joseph (born November 25, 1937 in Brooklyn,New York City) was the New York City Health Commissioner from 1986 until 1990 after having worked at the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) as Special Coordinator for Child Health and Survival. He went on to become dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs.

Biography

Joseph attended Fieldston School, graduating with his high school diploma in June 1955. He studied at Tufts College for one year before transferring to Harvard College. Joseph earned a bachelor's degree cum laude from Harvard in 1959, a medical degree cum laude from the Yale School of Medicine in 1963 and a master of public health degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1968. He completed his resident internship in pediatrics at the Boston Children's Medical Center.

As New York City Health Commissioner, Joseph was credited with aggressively fighting the AIDS epidemic there.

Joseph married Elizabeth Ann Preble. He has two daughters.

Publications

  • Dragon Within the Gates: The Once and Future AIDS Epidemic
  • Summer of Fifty-Seven: Coming of Age in Wyoming’s Shining Mountains
  • River of Stone, River of Sand: A Story of Medicine and Adventure

References

  1. ^"Masters of Public Health". Conferring of Degrees at the close of the ninety-second academic year(PDF). Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University. June 11, 1968. p. 21. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Biographical Sketch of Stephen C. Joseph". Hearings. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. 1995. p. 15. ISBN . Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  3. ^ Lubasch, Arnold (November 14, 1989). "Jos

 

Stephen Joseph, who was born a hundred years ago this year, did not live long enough for his role in contemporary theatre to emerge clearly. He is known above all as the advocate of theatre-in-the-round, but that was one of the outcomes of his thinking, not his primary motivation. Performance in-the-round was for him a reliable way of gathering people together, mentally and physically, in the same space as the action. His aim was a theatre for the people, not in a theoretical or political sense, but as a shared experience. He did not have grandiose theatre visions, but pursued small-scale projects that were intended to demystify the stage. “The phenomenon of the theatre is simply this, that there should be a huge celebration, communally done by audience and actors alike; it says ‘Hurray, we are human beings! We can do things. We have control over our own destiny. Life is exciting! Life is beautiful!” (Joseph, Actor and Architect 115). Scroll to the end of the article for the origin of this and further references.

Stephen Joseph’s life has inspired two biographies: The Full Round (2006) is by a colleague, Terry Lane, who knew him well, and includes some vivid insights. Lane tells an energetic life-story that conveys the charisma of Joseph’s personality. The second biography, Stephen Joseph: Theatre Pioneer and Provocateur (2013) is by Paul Elsam, who exhaustively worked his way through libraries, archives, interviews and correspondence. It is a valuable collection of evidence and witnesses, but it ends on a somewhat inconclusive note. The conviction and drive that made Stephen Joseph the charismatic figure described by Lane remain unexplained. Elsam sees Joseph as a missionary in a society hostile to live theatre, and asks: “How do you popularize theatregoing when it has been unpopular for so long?” (Elsam, Stephen Joseph xiii). Joseph approached the question from a different angle; while he acknowledged a movement away from theatre, his que

Who Was Stephen Joseph?

More in-depth details about Stephen Joseph, his life ands achievements can be found on our sister site, A Round Town, which looks at Stephen Joseph and theatre in the round in Scarborough.

Who Was Stephen Joseph?

It’s a fair question. Who was Stephen Joseph? Even in Scarborough, where a theatre bears his name, the majority of people would not be able to tell you who he was or why he's significant in British theatre.

Stephen Joseph is essentially one of the great unsung heroes in British theatre during the 1950s and 1960s. He was responsible for pioneering new theatre forms in this country and was a passionate advocate of new writing and new playwrights.

He is also, even within theatre circles, largely unrecognised for his achievements.

But perhaps who he is, is less important than what he represented and what he achieved. The facts about Stephen’s life can easily be found, but it is why Stephen Joseph is important and significant to Scarborough and British theatre that is the more pertinent and relevant question.

He was a pioneer. During the early 1950s, Stephen Joseph was passionately advocating new theatre forms. In a country dominated by a staid reliance on proscenium arch, Stephen believed in change. Having seen theatre-in-the-round whilst studying in North America, he believed this was an appealing form of theatre - largely lost in the UK - which was exciting, immediate and could attract people back to the theatre lost to the emergent television. In 1955, he formed the UK’s first professional theatre-in-the-round company at Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre, Scarborough, and in 1962 opened the first dedicated professional theatre-in-the-round venue in the UK at the Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent.

A risk-taker. Stephen Joseph’s other passion was new writing and encouraging new playwrights. At the time, few companies supported the idea of new playwriting and the Royal Court, long consid

Stephen Joseph

British theatre director

For the historian of photography, see Steven F. Joseph.

Stephen Joseph (13 June 1921 – 4 October 1967) was an English stage director.

Life

Stephen Joseph was born in London, the child of actress Hermione Gingold and the publisher Michael Joseph. He was educated at Clayesmore School in Dorset. At the age of 16 he became a student of the Central School of Speech and Drama, where he graduated two years later. From 1941 to 1946 he served as an officer in the Royal Navy, where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.

After the war he studied English literature at Jesus College, Cambridge, leading to the award of an MA degree. While at Cambridge he joined Footlights and both wrote and directed La Vie Cambridgienne, a revue broadcast by the BBC in July 1948.

In November 1948 he joined the Lowestoft Repertory Theatre as director, then moved on to manage the Summer Theatre season at Frinton-on-Sea. While there he saw a production by Jack Mitchley of the Christopher Fry play A Phoenix too Frequent, staged in the round, which caused him to experience "a bee beginning to buzz at the back of my mind". He returned to the Central School of Speech and Drama as a tutor, then in 1951 was granted leave of absence to study for a degree in playwriting at the University of Iowa.

Theatres in the round

On his return he set up a company, Studio Theatre Ltd, devoted to productions in the round. After many difficulties and frustrations in finding suitable venues in London, a chance meeting led in 1955 to his using the concert room in the Central Library at Scarborough, on the Yorkshire coast. Initially the company did a summer season in Scarborough, and in winter toured other towns, partly with a view to finding a more permanent home for the company.

This succeeded in 1962, when they found a disused cinema in Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent, which became the Victoria Theatre, with Peter Cheeseman in ch

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