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About Whitney J. LeBlancWhitney is a Designer, Director, Writer, Producer, Teacher and Glass Artiste. He received a Master of Arts degree in Theatre Production form the University of Iowa. He has taught theatre courses at Antioch College, Howard University, Lincoln University, Towson University, the University of Texas and Pacific Union College. It was during his teaching years that he assembled a portfolio of 80-productions, including designs of Ceremonies in Dark Old Men for NEC in New York.
Although directing was the main thrust of his activity, he liked to design and direct. Included in the many productions in which he wore both hats are; A Streetcar Named Desire, The American Dream, A Man’s a Man, Baker’s Dream, Dreams Deferred, The Tumult and The Shouting, People All Around, Zooman and the Sign, A Raisin in the Sun, Funnyhouse of a Negro, and The Glass Menagerie. He received the Best Director Award from Drama-Logue for the production of A Raisin in the Sun, and the Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Design of Funnyhouse of a Negro in San Francisco.
At the Maryland Center For Public Broadcasting, he was the one and only director for 105 episodes of the nationally aired series, Our Street. As a producer, he also wrote for the series and received the Ohio State Award. He directed the acclaimed and controversial TV Special, Holidays: Hallow Days—about prisoners, by prisoners and filmed in prison. Not only did this Npact Special get national airing but it also received the American Film Festival Award.
From PBS LeBlanc went to Hollywood where he joined Norman Lear’s staff as associate Producer of Good Times. He also worked on the Dinah ShoreShow, Jim Nabors Show and the Redd Foxx Variety Hour. As producer/director of Up and Coming, in San Francisco, he completed 52 half-hour episodes. As a member of the Director Guild of America his directing credits were seen on The Young and The Restless, Benson, Generations, 227, The Robert Guillaume Show, Me and Mrs. C and Marblehead Manor.
When he left Hollywood, LeBlanc reinvented himself as the Stained Glass Artiste that he had proclaimed many years earlier. He lives in the Napa Valley with his physician wife. They have four children who reside in various parts of the country, and pursue interesting occupations in city management, the arts of dance, film and the food industry.
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Although directing was the main thrust of his activity, he liked to design and direct. Included in the many productions in which he wore both hats are; A Streetcar Named Desire, The American Dream, A Man’s a Man, Baker’s Dream, Dreams Deferred, The Tumult and The Shouting, People All Around, Zooman and the Sign, A Raisin in the Sun, Funnyhouse of a Negro, and The Glass Menagerie. He received the Best Director Award from Drama-Logue for the production of A Raisin in the Sun, and the Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Design of Funnyhouse of a Negro in San Francisco.
At the Maryland Center For Public Broadcasting, he was the one and only director for 105 episodes of the nationally aired series, Our Street. As a producer, he also wrote for the series and received the Ohio State Award. He directed the acclaimed and controversial TV Special, Holidays: Hallow Days—about prisoners, by prisoners and filmed in prison. Not only did this Npact Special get national airing but it also received the American Film Festival Award.
From PBS LeBlanc went to Hollywood where he joined Norman Lear’s staff as associate Producer of Good Times. He also worked on the Dinah ShoreShow, Jim Nabors Show and the Redd Foxx Variety Hour. As producer/director of Up and Coming, in San Francisco, he completed 52 half-hour episodes. As a member of the Director Guild of America his directing credits were seen on The Young and The Restless, Benson, Generations, 227, The Robert Guillaume Show, Me and Mrs. C and Marblehead Manor.
When he left Hollywood, LeBlanc reinvented himself as the Stained Glass Artiste that he had proclaimed many years earlier. He lives in the Napa Valley with his physician wife. They have four children who reside in various parts of the country, and pursue interesting occupations in city management, the arts of dance, film and the food industry.
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