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5:06 PM PST 11/19/2020
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His clients included Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Lanford Wilson, John Kander and Fred Ebb.
Mitch Douglas, a literary agent who spent three decades at the ICM and represented such figures as Tennessee Williams, Graham Greene, Arthur Miller, Lanford Wilson and Howard Koch, has passed away. He was 78 years old.
Douglas died of metastatic brain cancer on November 5 at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, his friend and client Lawrence Leritz announced.
Other clients of the Kentucky native included Broadway duets John Kander & Fred Ebb and Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee; playwrights Robert Anderson (Tea and sympathy), Frederick Knott (Dial M for murder) and Reginald Rose (12 angry men); and the novelists Manuel Puig (Kiss of the spider woman) and Vera Caspary (Laura).
Douglas also portrayed memoirs written by actors Shelley Winters, Eartha Kitt, Hermione Gingold, Peter Marshall and Rose Marie and the 21 original cast members of A choir line, as well as books written by show business journalists Anne Edwards and J. Randy Taraborrelli.
In addition to Broadway and West End efforts, Douglas championed off-Broadway hits including Nunsense, Breasts! Musical comedy – produced and choreographed by Leritz – Bat boy and Singapore song.
After 30 years at ICM – he started in the agency mailroom – he owned and operated the Mitch Douglas literary agency in New York City until his death.
Calvin Mitchell Douglas was born March 27, 1942 in Murphysboro, Kentucky. After receiving his BA in Theater from the University of Kentucky, he became General Manager of the Jenny Wiley Music Theater in Prestonsburg, Kentucky.
He received two Kentucky colonel commissions by state governors for his contribution to the arts, and none other than Williams once described him as “firm, spirited, and fun.”
Survivors include his partner, Leonardo Rendon.
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