The 1960s U.S. counter-culture movement ran from Murray Mednick’s veins, to his fingers and onto the blank page.

“He was interested in the artist… and what an artist of integrity would mean in a trying political climate,” said playwright and director Wes Walker, who trained under Mednick in the early 1990s.

The air of upheaval and revolution in the 1960s led Mednick and other playwrights and directors to reject the gloss and bright lights of New York City theater and stage edgy, confrontational performances in small spaces far from Broadway. That movement became so influential it birthed an entire genre of theater: “off Broadway" and “off-off Broadway.”

Mednick wrote dozens of plays from 1967 to 2025. Their staging earned him recognition, including the OBIE Award and an Ovation Lifeti

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