Edwin Sherin

At 87 years old, Edwin Sherin has this physical status:

Edwin Sherin (January 15, 1930 – May 4, 2017) was an American theatre and television director and producer.

Sherin's wife was actress Jane Alexander and his stepson was the similarly dubbed Jace Alexander, with whom he collaborated on the television legal drama/police procedural Law & Order on thirty-two (32) separate occasions.

He directed many episodes of the television drama Law & Order, as well as directed for the stage, mainly on Broadway, including The Great White Hope, which starred Alexander in both the theater and film versions.

Additional members of his family included the actress Maddie Corman, his stepson Jace's current wife.

Early life

Sherin was born in Danville, Pennsylvania, the son of Ruth (née Berger), a homemaker, and Joseph Sherin, a textile worker. He grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and Inwood, Manhattan. He had a sister, Edith Sherin Markson, who was among the founders of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater.

When he was 16 years old, Sherin dropped out of DeWitt Clinton High School and traveled to West Texas, where he worked on a cattle ranch. He eventually resumed his education at the Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs, graduating in 1948. In 1952, he graduated from Brown University, where he received a degree in international relations. After graduation, Sherin enlisted in the Navy and fought in the Korean War.

Personal life

Sherin's first wife was actress Pamela Vevers, with whom he had three sons. The marriage ended in divorce. In 1975, he married actress Jane Alexander.

He and Alexander became Canadian citizens, having maintained a home in Lockeport, Nova Scotia since 1998.

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Career

Sherin started off as an actor, working at the Paul Mann's Actors Workshop and studying with John Houseman at the American Shakespeare Theatre.

When working as the resident director at Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage, where he cast her and James Earl Jones in The Great White Hope, he met Jane Alexander. In 1968, he directed the play and its two actors on Broadway, and the production marked the beginning of not only his Broadway directorial career but also a long professional and personal relationship with Alexander.

Alexander in First Monday on Broadway in 1978, Hedda Gabler at the Hartman Theatre (Connecticut) in 1981. Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, 1991.

Sherin produced many plays, including The Wall (1963–1964), Galileo (1964–1965), St. Joan (1965–1969), and King Lear (1968–1969) while serving on the Arena Stage.

Sherin received the Best Direction of a Play award for 1969 by the Drama Desk, and she was nominated for the 1974 Tony Award for Outstanding Director of a Play (Find Your Way Home).

Henry Fonda, Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Thompson, Strother Martin, were revived on March 17, 1972, at the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles. With Sherin directing, Jane Alexander, Richard X. Slattery, Lewis J. Stadlen, and Pepper Martin appeared.

Claire Bloom, Martin Shaw, Joss Ackland, and Morag Hood conducted a revival of A Streetcar Named Desire at London's Theatre in 1974.

Sherin directed Alexander in Thom Thomas's A Moon to Dance by in 2009 and the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Between 1993 and 2000, Sherin executive-produced 163 episodes of the NBC drama Law & Order. All three current Law & Order franchises have been included in his television film credits; Hill Street Blues; Los Angeles; Doogie Howser, M.D. Homicide: Life on the Street; and Medium.

Sherin produced Lena: My 100 Children (1987), The Father Clements Story (1987), The Mother Clements (1987), The Score (1989), Daughter of the Streets (1990), and A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz (1991).

Valdez Is Coming With Burt Lancaster and Susan Clark, and My Old Man's Place with William Devane and Michael Moriarty were two of Sherin's dramatic films. Both films were released in 1971.

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