#118 - Ted Lange - Footnote Historian
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Actor, Playwright, and Director Ted Lange steps off The Love Boat to chat with Behind the Awards about his play Lady Patriot starring former castmates Fred Grandy & Jill Whelan.
Also in this episode - Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and Ann Hathaway’s Devil Wears Prada reunion at the 2024 SAG Awards.
TED LANGE (Playwright / Director) personifies the Renaissance Man Theatre Award received from the NAACP. A graduate of London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Lange’s career has gained worldwide recognition as a gifted actor of stage and screen, revered director, and prolific writer. Lange has penned twenty-seven plays including, his historical trilogy, George Washington’s Boy, The Journals of Osborne P. Anderson, and Lady Patriot. Other plays include Four Queens - No Trump, a comedy which played to rave reviews and won NAACP Best Play 1997, The Cause My Soul won the NAACP Best Play 2017, Lemon Meringue Façade, produced off Broadway in New York, Behind the Mask, Lange’s one-man show on the life of Paul Laurence Dunbar, which toured nationwide, and Born a Unicorn, a musical about Ira Aldridge. Lange garnered worldwide fame for his portrayal of Isaac from the Love Boat.
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