Eric
Krebs,
whose theatrical producing career spans more than 40 years,
founded and directed the Off-Broadway John Houseman Theater
Center and Douglas Fairbanks Theater for over 20 years. He currently
operates the off-Broadway 45th Street Theater (www.45thStreetTheatre.com).
As a producer,
he was most recently represented on Broadway by Bill Maher:
Victory Begins At Home (Tony nomination for Best Special
Theatrical Event). Other Broadway productions include Neil Simon's
The Dinner Party, It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues (nominated
for 4 1999 Tony Awards including Best Musical) and Electra
(nominated for 3 Tony Awards).
Recent Off-Broadway
productions include Will Durst: The All-American Sport of
Bipartisan Bashing (New World Stages), Toxic Audio
(2004 Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience), Rounding
Third, Langston Hughes's Little Ham, Golf: The Musical, Tallulah
Hallelujah starring Tovah Feldshuh, A Pure Gospel America,
The Big Bang, the world premiere of Bash written
by Neil LaBute, Serenade The World: The Music and Words
of Oscar Brown, Jr., and This Is Our Youth by
Kenneth Lonergan. Other New York producing credits include:
Laughing Liberally, Capitol Steps, Fyvush Finkel From Second
Avenue To Broadway, The Passion Of Dracula, Fool For Love, King
Of Schnorrers, The Rise Of David Levinsky, By And For Havel
and Paul Robeson (starring Avery Brooks). Mr. Krebs
produced Geoffrey Ewing's Ali, the biography of Muhammed
Ali, a theatrical production featured at the Olympic Games in
Atlanta in 1996, as well as at the Mermaid Theater in London.
In the not-for-profit
theater, he founded and for fourteen years was the Producing
Director of the George Street Playhouse, a professional (LORT)
theater in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Currently, he is the chairman
of Amas Musical Theatre, a not-for-profit theater founded by
Rosetta LeNoire and dedicated to the training of "city
kids" in the performing arts and the creation of new musicals
for multi-ethnic casts. Mr. Krebs is a professor of theater
arts at Baruch College, City University of New York, continuing
a career as an educator that began in 1969 at Rutgers University
in New Jersey, where he is professor emeritus. He was awarded
the Robert Whitehead Award for excellence in producing in February,
1999.
In April, 2007
he performed his own 90 minute adaptation of King Lear, a one
person presentation entitled "Considering Lear."