Arthur Storch has acted, directed, produced, and taught in a career spanning forty-five years. He has directed Al Pacino in The Local Stigmatic, John Savage in Of Mice and Men, Geraldine Page in Clarence, Alvin Ailey in Talking to You, Shelley Winters in Under the Weather, Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach in The Typistand the Tiger, Hume Cronyn in Promenade All, Joanne Woodward in Hay Fever, Jack Lemmon in Tribute, Alan Alda in The Owl and the Pussycat, Alan King in The Impossible Years, and a national tour with Rudolph Nureyev in The King and I. In 1974, Mr. Storch founded Syracuse Stage where, as Producing Artistic Director, he directed thirty plays ranging from Shakespeare to Beckett and supervised the production of more than 100 others. During the same period (’74-‘92), he was Chairman of Syracuse University’s Drama Department. He left Syracuse in 1992 with the Mayor’s Achievement Award and the Arthur Storch Theatre named in his honor.