Frank Galati Death – Popular American director, writer, actor, and teacher has passed away. 79-year-old Frank Galati who was a member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company and an associate director at Goodman Theatre died on Tuesday, Jan 2. 2023. Frank Galati was announced dead early earlier Tuesday on an official obituary page. Frank Galati taught at Northwestern University for many years. His cause of death was not immediately disclosed by the family.
Who was Frank Galati?
Frank Galati was an American who worked as a teacher, a director, a writer, and an actor. Galati went to Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois, for one year, then switched to Northwestern University. In 1965, he got a Bachelor of Science in speech with a focus on interpretation. He taught at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. He then went to Northwestern and got an M.S. in a speech in 1966 and a Ph.D. in interpretation in 1971. During this time, he led and acted in a number of plays.
Galati and Lawrence Kasdan turned the book The Accidental Tourist into a movie called The Accidental Tourist. This movie was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay), a BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. For writing the screenplay, they won a USC Scripter Award.
Galati’s version of The Grapes of Wrath won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1990. The production started at Steppenwolf and then moved to Broadway, where Galati won another Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play. The drama also got six more nominations, and Gary Sinise, Terry Kinney, and Lois Smith were all recognized for their acting. Since The Grapes of Wrath was a hit, Galati has made movies based on As I Lay Dying in 1995 and After the Quake by Haruki Murakami in 2005. He has also written his own books, like Everyman (1995). Most of his work is first performed at Steppenwolf.
Tributes To Frank Galati
In 1974 he came to my high school and read from his dissertation on Nabakov’s ‘Pale Fire’. Tracking at least three levels of narrative consciousness. That was it. For me, at least, there was no place else to apply but Northwestern. Just to be near that brilliance. Forever changed. Au Revoir Frank Galati.
Devastated, just absolutely devastated by the news that my friend, mentor and spirit guide, Frank Galati, has transitioned from this plane. Meeting him as Marin excitedly introduced us during rehearsals for RAGTIME in Toronto in 1996 up to our triumphant return in 2022, to the Asolo Rep Theatre to see his masterpiece KNOXVILLE finally make it to the stage. It was my honor and privilege in every way. Our paths have intermingled in such soaring beautiful moments and huge chasms of sadness. I hold his partner, Peter, high in my heart as I know this path is a hard one to travel but he won’t do it alone. RIP my dear friend.
Frank Galati Obituary and Funeral Arrangements Will Be Released By The Family
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