Cino Playwrights in the Cino

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Doric Wilson and cast of his ‘And He Made a Her,’ 1961. Doric Wilson’s website

Claris Nelson with Ron Willoughby in her The Rue Garden, 1962.

Dan Leach, author George Birimisa, unknown spectator, ‘Daddy Violet,’ 1967.

Michael Smith (standing) directs author Soren Agenoux in ‘Chas. Dickens’ Christmas Carol,’ 1967. Photo by: Billy Name/OvoWorks, Inc.

PLAYWRIGHTS IN PLAYS: Charles Stanley (author of ‘Vultures over Miami,’ 1967) and Peter Hartman on the set of Hartman’s ‘Vistas of the Heart Revealed.’

1967: David Starkweather*, Soren Agenoux, Lanford Wilson* (Jayne Ann Harris kneeling) in Claris Nelson’s The Clown. Photo JAMES D. GOSSAGE.

Me and William M. Hoffman (‘Thank You, Miss Victoria’ and ‘Good Night, I Love You,’ 1965) in my ‘The Haunted Host.’ 1964.

Center, Donald Kvares (‘What Did You Say to Me in the Last Scene,’ 1964) with Bob Dahdah (adaptor of short stories for the Cino stage), applauding ‘Incidents,’ 1964.

Hope Stansbury, author of Milligan’s movie, ‘Vapors,’ with Haal Borkse, author of ‘The Brown Crown,’ 1967. Photo James D. Gossage, 1965.

Al Carmines and Irene Maria Fornes (seen with H. M. Koutoukas and Larry Kornfeld) contributed a skit and songs to ‘The Spring Horror Show.’

Phoebe Wray (here obscured by a candlestick in Josef Bush’s ‘French Gray’) saved an evening by hopping onstage to read her long poem, ‘The String Man’ when a show failed to show.

George Haimsohn (co-author) and James Wise (composer) posed at the Cino during the record Cino run of their musical, ‘Dames at Sea.’

1966: Tom Eyen (standing at far right) and (clockwise from him) stage manager John Schmeder, Charles Stanley, Steve Davis, Joe Cino, Helen Hanft, and Jack Quinn surround Magie Dominic on Josef Bush’s set for Eyen’s ‘Why Hanna’s Skirt Won’t Stay Down.’ Photo: JAMES D. GOSSAGE

1965: La Mama E.T.C. was temporarily the Cino during repairs of fire damage to the Caffe. Mary Mitchell (whose ‘Who Put the Blood on My Long-Stemmed Roses?’ played in the ‘Cino at La Mama’ season) with Joe Cino (who is credited with writing a one-act for the Cino in 1963). Photo: JAMES D. GOSSAGE

1985: I guess The Vincent Astor Gallery at the Lincoln Center Library of the Performing Arts was the Cino during Richard Buck and Magie Dominic’s tribute, “The Caffe Cino and its Legacy,” so here are Bob Dahdah, David Starkweather, Lanford Wilson, and me.

Just to fill out this page: me in the Cino rehearsing The Haunted Host, 1964.

*Lanford Wilson and David Starkweather each produced too many plays at the Caffe Cino to list in a caption, Starkweather from 1963 through 1966, Wilson from 1963 through 1968.