William M. Hoffman

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In the 1960s-70s, WILLIAM M. HOFFMAN as an editor at Hill & Wang was the first person to present many Off-Off writers to the great world. This is an edition of his New American Plays series.

Another edition of the New American Plays series.

Another edition of the New American Plays series.

Photo of Cino writer JOSEF BUSH from New American Plays #2.

Photo of Cino writer TOM EYEN from New American Plays #2.

WILLIAM M. HOFFMAN from New American Plays #3.

DAVID STARKWEATHER from New American Plays #3.

Me, ROBERT PATRICK, from New American Plays #3.

In 1979, WILIAM M. HOFFMAN edited the first book of gay plays, including works by Cino writers LANFORD WILSON, Me, and WILLIAM M. HOFFMAN himself, (with the collaboration of Anthony Holland).

Jonathan Hogan, Jonathan Hadary, and Lily Knight in AS IS at Circle Rep (the production moved to Broadway), directed by Cinoite MARSHALL W. MASON. It also starred CLARIS NELSON. Movie version HERE.

Billy’s father (left) appeared on the stage as a boy in Europe.

In 1991, Teresa Stratas sang Marie Antoinette in Hoffman and John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles, commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera.

As editor. WILLIAM M. HOFFMAN was also responsible for LANFORD WILSON’s first collection.

BILL, his lover BOBBY KUBERA, South African visitor Blaise Koch, and designer Charles Terrell hang over me, about 1975.

Jeffrey Herman and CONNIE CLARK in Bill’s Uptight!,
The Old Reliable Theatre Tavern, 1970.

BILL in his hippie period.

NEW YORK MAGAZINE honored Billy’s play “As Is” as one of the few images emblematic of their first forty years.