Walter Hadler

For the ice hockey player, see Wally Halder.

Walter Hadler is an American playwright and theater director. Hadler was a resident playwright at Theatre Genesis during the 1960s, along with Murray Mednick, Sam Shepard, and Tony Barsha.[1] Hadler and Mednick became co-directors of the theater in 1969, and Hadler continued to operate it from 1974 to 1978 following Mednick's departure.[2]

Hadler later wrote and directed productions for Padua Playwrights, a Los Angeles theater company founded by Mednick.

References

1. Bottoms, Stephen (2004). Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-11400-X.
2. Roudane, Matthew Charles (2002). The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-77766-7.