Research Catalog
Martin Worman papers
- Title
- Martin Worman papers, 1960-2008.
- Author
- Worman, Martin.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding aid
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Not available - Please for assistance. | Box 29 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2009-002 Box 29 | Offsite |
Not available - Please for assistance. | Box 28 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2009-002 Box 28 | Offsite |
| Box 27 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2009-002 Box 27 | Offsite | |
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| Box 25 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2009-002 Box 25 | Offsite | |
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Not available - Please for assistance. | Box 21 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2009-002 Box 21 | Offsite |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Croonquist, Robert.
- Description
- 15 linear ft. (29 boxes)
- Subjects
- Photographs
- Cross-dressers > California > San Francisco
- Schechner, Richard, 1934-
- Theater > California > San Francisco
- Cockettes (Theatrical troupe)
- Worman, Martin
- Cross-dressing
- Interviews
- Posters
- Oral histories
- AIDS (Disease) > United States
- Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco)
- Theater > History > 20th century
- Experimental theater > New York (State) > New York
- Female impersonators > United States
- Actors > Interviews
- Gay military personnel > United States
- Sound recordings
- San Francisco (Calif.) > Social life and customs > 20th century
- Gay men > Sexual behavior
- Video recordings
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Oral histories.
- Photographs.
- Posters.
- Sound recordings.
- Video recordings.
- Access (note)
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Terms of Use (note)
- For permission to publish, contact the Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division.
- Location of Other Archival Materials (note)
- Billy Rose Theatre Division.
- Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
- Collection guide available in repository and on the internet.
- Call Number
- *T-Mss 2009-002
- OCLC
- 608549165
- 608549165
- Author
- Worman, Martin.
- Title
- Martin Worman papers, 1960-2008.
- Summary
- The collection documents Worman's theatrical and academic careers, the history of the Cockettes, drag, travesty theatre, and San Francisco in the early 1970s. The extensive production files relate to the Cockettes and Worman's other theatrical endeavors, as writer, actor and director, while the academic files chronicle his activities as student, instructor and scholar. A small amount of personal papers in the collection survey his childhood, youth, military career and adult life. The collection contains correspondence, biographical materials, writings, military and legal documents, scripts, sheet music, publicity materials, programs, photographs, research materials, and recordings of performances, rehearsals and demos of songs. Notable is Worman's research for his dissertation on the Cockettes, which includes 80 taped interviews with former Cockettes among them Sylvester, Goldie Glitters, Kreemah Ritz and John Rothermel. The collection also includes transcripts of these interviews along with draft versions of Worman's dissertation.
- Restricted Access
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Terms Of Use
- For permission to publish, contact the Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division.
- Biography
- Martin Worman was an actor, playwright, lyricist, director, female impersonator, activist and academic, working primarily in San Francisco and New York from the late 1960s through the early 1990s. A Vietnam veteran born in Paterson, New Jersey in 1945, Worman hitchhiked to San Francisco ca. 1969 and joined The Cockettes, a cross-dressing improvisational theatre troupe. He acted with them and wrote book and lyrics for several of their most renowned shows including Hot Greeks and Vice Palace featuring John Waters' superstar, Divine. After the troupe broke up, Worman continued his musical collaboration with Cockette Richard "Scrumbly" Koldewyn, writing musical revues and plays, most notably the 1972 musical Rickets: A Day in the Life of the Counterculture. In 1975 he co-founded the San Francisco-based Gay Men's Theater Collective whose award-winning play Crimes Against Nature was brought to New York. Worman moved to New York in 1979 where he worked with directors Robert Wilson and Jack O'Brien, directed shows of his own, wrote adaptations of the stories of Meridel LeSueuer and Sherwood Anderson and worked toward a doctorate in performance studies at New York University. He taught at NYU, the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Antioch College. Worman died of AIDS in 1993 while working at Antioch.
- Indexes
- Collection guide available in repository and on the internet.
- Location of Other Archival Materials
- John Edward Heys papers, ca. 1962-2001 (bulk 1969-2000); located at; Billy Rose Theatre Division.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Croonquist, Robert.
- Research Call Number
- *T-Mss 2009-002