Cinema Archives > Collections > Elia Kazan > Career Overview Wesleyan Cinema Archives The Elia Kazan Collection Career Overview Actor Theater Film Author Actor 1932 Joins the recently-founded Group Theater. Through 1935, bit parts and backstage production work follow. 1932 Actor in play, Chrysalis by Rose Albert Porter, directed by Theresa Helburn. (Also assistant stage manager.) 1933 Actor in play, Men in White by Sidney Kingsley, directed by Lee Strasberg. (Also assistant stage manager.) 1934 Actor in play, Gold Eagle Guy by Melvin Levy, directed by Lee Strasberg. (Also assistant stage manager.) 1934 Actor in film short, Pie in the Sky. 1935 Actor in play, Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets, directed by Odets and Sanford Meisner. 1935 Actor in play, Till the Day I Die by Clifford Odets, directed by Cheryl Crawford. 1935 Actor in play, Paradise Lost by Clifford Odets, directed by Harold Clurman. 1936 Actor in play, Johnny Johnson by Paul Green, directed by Lee Strasberg. 1937 Actor in play, Golden Boy by Clifford Odets, directed by Harold Clurman. 1939 Actor in play, The Gentle People by Irwin Shaw, directed by Harold Clurman. 1940 Actor in play, Night Music by Clifford Odets, directed by Harold Clurman. 1940 Actor in play, Liliom by Ferenc Molnar, directed by Benno Schneider. 1940 Actor in film, City for Conquest directed by Anatole Litvak. 1941 Actor in film, Blues in the Night directed by Anatole Litvak. 1941 Actor in play, Five Alarm Waltz by Lucille S. Prumbs, directed by Robert Lewis. [top] Theater 1933 Stage manager for Gentlewoman by John Howard Lawson, directed by Lee Strasberg. 1934 Director and co-writer with Art Smith of Dimitrioff. 1935 Director with Alfred Saxe of The Young Go First by Peter Martin, George Scudder and Charles Friedman 1935 Stage manager for Awake and Sing! by Clifford Odets, directed by Harold Clurman. 1936 Directs The Crime by Michael Blankfort. 1938 Directs Casey Jones by Robert Ardrey. 1939 Directs Quiet City by Irwin Shaw. 1939 Directs Thunder Rock by Robert Ardrey. 1942 Directs Café Crown by Hy S.Kraft. 1942 Directs The Strings, My Lord, Are False by Paul Vincent Caroll. 1942 Directs The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder. Play wins Pulitzer Prize. 1943 Directs Harriet by Florence Ryerson and Colin Clements. 1943 Directs One Touch of Venus by S.J. Perelman and Ogden Nash. 1944 Directs play (with film elements), It’s Up to You. 1944 Directs Jacobowsky and the Colonel by S.N. Behrman. 1944 Directs Sing Out Our Sweet Land by Jean and Walter Kerr. 1945 Directs Deep Are the Roots by Arnaud d’Usseau and James Gow. 1945 Directs Dunnigan’s Daughter by S.N. Behrman. 1946 Produces Truckline Cafe by Maxwell Anderson. 1947 Directs All My Sons by Arthur Miller. Wins direction Tony Award. 1947 Directs A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. Play wins Pulitzer Prize. 1948 Directs Sundown Beach by Bessie Breuer. 1948 Directs Love Life by Alan Jay Lerner. 1949 Directs Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. Wins direction Tony Award. Play wins Pulitzer Prize. 1952 Directs Flight Into Egypt by George Tabori. 1953 Directs Camino Real by Tennessee Williams. 1953 Directs Tea and Sympathy by Robert Anderson. 1955 Directs and co-produces Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams. Nominated for direction and play Tony Awards. Play wins Pulitzer Prize. 1957 Directs Dark at the Top of the Stairs by William Inge. Nominated for direction Tony Award. 1958 Directs J.B. by Archibald MacLeish. Wins direction Tony Award. Play wins Pulitzer Prize. 1959 Directs Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams. Nominated for direction Tony Award. 1964 Directs After the Fall by Arthur Miller. 1964 Directs But for Whom Charlie by S.N. Behrman. 1964 Directs The Changling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley. [top] Film 1937 Directs and writes The People of the Cumberland. 1945 Directs A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. 1947 Directs The Sea of Grass. 1947 Directs Boomerang. 1947 Directs Gentlemen's Agreement. Wins Best Director Academy Award. 1949 Directs Pinky. 1950 Directs Panic in the Streets. 1951 Directs A Streetcar Named Desire. Nominated for Best Director Academy Award 1952 Directs Viva Zapata! 1953 Directs Man on a Tightrope. 1954 Directs On the Waterfront. Wins Best Director Academy Award. 1955 Directs and produces East of Eden. Nominated for Best Director Academy Award. 1956 Directs, writes and produces Baby Doll. Nominated for Best Screenplay Academy Award. 1957 Directs and produces A Face in the Crowd. 1960 Directs and produces Wild River. 1961 Directs and produces Splendor in the Grass. 1963 Directs, writes and produces America, America. Nominated for Best Director, Best Picture, and Best ScreenplayAcademy Awards. 1969 Directs, writes and produces The Arrangement. 1972 Directs The Visitors. 1976 Directs The Last Tycoon. [top] Author Novels: 1962 America, America 1967 The Arrangement 1969 The Assassins 1975 The Understudy 1978 Acts of Love 1982 The Anatolian 1994 Beyond the Aegean Autobiography: 1988 Elia Kazan: A Life [top] Copyright © 2006 Wesleyan University. All rights reserved.