Information: - Norman Lewis Corwin (May 3, 1910 October 18, 2011) was an American writer, screenwriter, producer, essayist and teacher of journalism and writing. His earliest and biggest successes were in the writing and directing of radio drama during the 1930s and 1940s. - Norman Gilliland has been a producer on Wisconsin Public Radio since 1984, where he hosts classical music broadcasts, produces the interview program "University of the Air," and reads for "Chapter A Day." He holds degrees in English and Broadcasting from the University of Florida and attended graduate school in English at Duke University, where he developed an interest in broadcasting. He is also an active author with four published books, the historical novel "Sand Mansions" and its stand-alone sequel "Midnight Catch," "Downeast Ledge" (2013), plus two nonfiction books about classical music--"Grace Notes for a Year" and "Scores to Settle." He has produced an audio drama based upon Dick Ringler's modern English translation of the Old English narrative Beowulf titled "Beowulf: The Complete StoryA Drama" (ISBN 0-9715093-2-8). He was one of a handful of experts interviewed in the Academy Award winning short documentary . - Mary Antoinette "Tony" Perry (June 27, 1888June 28, 1946) was an actress, director and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing. She is the namesake of the Tony Awards. - Broadway theatre, commonly known as Broadway, refers to the theatrical performances presented in the 41 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Along with London's West End theatres, Broadway theatres are widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. - Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 October 31, 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for ""The Good War"", and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago. - Norman Milton Lear (born July 27, 1922) is an American television writer and producer who produced such 1970s sitcoms as "All in the Family", "Sanford and Son", "One Day at a Time", "The Jeffersons", "Good Times", and "Maude". As a political activist, he founded the advocacy organization People for the American Way in 1981 and has supported First Amendment rights and progressive causes. - The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre. Several discretionary non-competitive awards are also given, including a Special Tony Award, the Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre, and the Isabelle Stevenson Award. The awards are named after Antoinette "Tony" Perry, co-founder of the American Theatre Wing. - The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over a land area of just , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. A global power city, New York City exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment, its fast pace defining the term "New York minute". Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. - Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the "CBS Evening News" for 19 years (196281). During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll. He reported many events from 1937 to 1981, including bombings in World War II; the Nuremberg trials; combat in the Vietnam War; the Dawson's Field hijackings; Watergate; the Iran Hostage Crisis; and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King, Jr., and Beatles musician John Lennon. He was also known for his extensive coverage of the U.S. space program, from Project Mercury to the Moon landings to the Space Shuttle. He was the only non-NASA recipient of a Moon-rock award. Cronkite is well known for his departing catchphrase "And that's the way it is," followed by the broadcast's date. - Eric Simonson ( born June 27 , 1960 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ) is an American writer and director in theatre , film and opera . He is a member of Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago , and the author of plays Lombardi , Fake , Honest , Magic / Bird and Bronx Bombers . He won the 2005 Academy Award for his short documentary A Note of Triumph : The Golden Age of Norman Corwin , and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical in 1993 for The Song of Jacob Zulu . - Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. A five-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director and an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era, Altman was considered a "maverick" in making films with a highly naturalistic but stylized and satirical aesthetic, unlike most Hollywood films. He is consistently ranked as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in American cinema. - The Broadway League, formerly the League of American Theatres and Producers and League of New York Theatres and Producers, is the national trade association for the Broadway theatre industry based in New York, New York. Its members include theatre owners and operators, producers, presenters, and general managers in New York and more than 250 other North American cities, as well as suppliers of goods and services to the theatre industry. - A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin is a 2005 documentary short subject about writer Norman Corwin. In addition to Corwin, the cast includes Robert Altman, Norman Lear, Walter Cronkite, Studs Terkel, and radio historians Timothy Troy and Norman Gilliland. What is the relationship between 'eric simonson' and 'film director'?
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