Journal, January 14, 1959

Julian Beck (1925–1985) was an actor, director, playwright, and painter. In 1947, he and Judith Malina founded the Living Theatre, in their first two decades producing classics and contemporary writers such as Gertrude Stein, Pirandello, Lorca, Jackson Mac Low, Paul Goodman, and Jack Gelber, as well as the landmark avant-garde theatre works The Connection, Paradise Now, and Mysteries and Smaller Pieces. Beck's books include The Life of the Theatre and Theandric. A volume of his plays Prometheus/The Archaeology of Sleep was recently published.