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Gordon Davidson
Gordon Davidson, who was named by Variety as one of the top 100 entertainers of the century and has been inducted in the Theater Hall of Fame, is a director and producer and the founding artistic director of Center Theatre Group (the Mark Taper Forum and Ahmanson Theatre at the Music Center of Los Angeles, and the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City). For 38 years he guided hundreds of productions to the CTG stages. This work and his direction of many of the plays have been acclaimed both in Los Angeles and New York, garnering many awards including a Tony Award for the Taper in 1977 for theatrical excellence. Davidson won a Tony Award for his direction of The Shadow Box and Tony nominations for his direction of Children of a Lesser God and The Trial of Catonsville Nine.