Frank Galati, an actor, director, teacher and adapter who was a pivotal figure in Chicago’s theater community and a two-time Tony Award winner, has died. He was 79. Galati won twin Tonys in 1990, for best play and best director.
FILE - Writer and director Frank Galati poses for a portrait on July 29, 2004, in a practice room at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Ore., where his play "Oedipus Complex'' premiered during the summer. Galati, who was a pivotal figure in Chicago's theater community and a two-time Tony Award winner on Broadway, died Monday, Jan. 2, 2023, according to Steppenwolf Theatre. He was 79.
Galati won twin Tonys in 1990 — best play and best director — for his adaptation and staging of Steppenwolf’s production of John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath,” starring Gary Sinise as Tom Joad. He was also nominated for directing the 1998 celebrated musical “Ragtime.”
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