Paul Schmidt

Paul Schmidt was an American translator, poet, playwright, and essayist.

A man of eclectic interests, he graduated from Colgate University in 1955, and studied at Harvard University. He studied mime with Marcel Marceau and acting with Jacques Charon. He served in the U.S. Army Intelligence, from 1958 to 1960.

Schmidt was professor at the University of Texas at Austin, from 1967 to 1976. He also taught at the Yale School of Drama. He translated Euripides, Chekhov, Velimir Khlebnikov, Brecht, Genet, Gogol, Marivaux, and Mayakovsky.

He wrote three plays, one of which, Black Sea Follies, won the Helen Hayes Award and Kesselring Award for best play. Schmidt's work was profiled in The New York Review of Books.

Sources

• Holden, Stephen. "Paul Schmidt, 65, Translator, Poet and Actor." The New York Times, published 21 February 1999. < https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/21/nyregion/paul-schmidt-65-transla... > Accessed 14 July 2018.
• "Paul Schmidt (translator)." Wikipedia, revision of 3 April 2018. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Schmidt_(translator) > Accessed 14 July 2018.
• "Stockard Channing." NNDB. < http://www.nndb.com/people/760/000022694/ > Accessed 14 July 2018.