Roger Englander

Roger Leslie Englander (November 23, 1926 – February 8, 2021) was an American director and producer. He won a Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for five more in the category Outstanding Directing.

Born in Clevelend, Ohio, Englander attended Cleveland Heights High School where he studied piano, trumpet and French horn; he also conducted the school orchestra. He studied drama, composition and theory at the University of Chicago and graduated in 1945.

Englander produced all 53 episodes for Leonard Bernstein's ''Young People's Concerts'' at CBS from 1958 until 1972. Earlier, he was the prop manager for Bernstein's production of Britten's ''Peter Grimes'' at Tanglewood in 1946. He staged several of Menotti's operas, including ''The Telephone'' and ''The Medium'' for WPTZ (Philadelphia). Englander wrote ''Opera, What's All the Screaming About?'' in 1983. He also directed several episodes of ''Omnibus'' and produced episodes of ''The Bell Telephone Hour'' which earned him a Peabody Award in 1959.

Englander died in February 2021, of pneumonia at the hospital in Newport, Rhode Island, at the age of 94. Provided by Wikipedia