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The Impossible Ragtime Theater , the IRT, was an American theater company founded in 1974 by Ted Story, George Ferencz , Cynthia Crane and Pam Mitchell. It ran 100 productions over 10 years in four different theatre spaces.

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4-596: In its second season, it ran two spaces at once. IRT also had a Director-Playwright Collaboration program, which included authors such as Kevin O'Morrison . Jonathan Frakes and Armin Shimerman were members of the company at the same time. Brian Dennehy and Ray Wise were also members. This United States theatre–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kevin O%27Morrison Kevin O'Morrison (May 25, 1916 – December 11, 2016)

8-466: A lead role in the play Winged Victory . In addition to touring with that production he performed in the film adaptation . O'Morrison played the lead actor in the TV series Charlie Wild, Private Detective (1950–51) for the first seven episodes. The series began on CBS Television , and then moved to ABC , and finally DuMont . He started his career working as a stage, radio, television, and film actor in

12-563: The 1940s. He began writing plays in the 1960s, including A Party For Lovers and The Long War . In 1993, O'Morrison played Cliff Reed in Sleepless in Seattle , starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan . Other films in which he acted included Dear Ruth , Never Fear , The Set-Up , and The Golden Gloves Story . O'Morrison died on December 11, 2016, in Lynnwood, Washington , at the age of 100. He

16-625: Was an American playwright and actor. O'Morrison began working when he was 14 years old. The jobs that he held included copy reader, display designer, lumberjack, office boy, stevedore, and truck driver. Beginning in 1937, O'Morrison performed with the Mercury Theatre in New York. Plays in which he appeared included Danton's Death , Julius Caesar , and Shoemaker's Holiday . During three years' military service in World War II, O'Morrison had

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