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Everett Quinton Dies: Downtown NYC Theater Pioneer And Champion Of The Ridiculous Was 71

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Everett Quinton, a staple of New York’s post-1960s downtown theater scene and diligent standard-bearer for the outrageously campy and hilariously melodramatic style of performance known as the Ridiculous, died of glioblastoma January 23 in Brooklyn.

He was 71. The actor-director’s death was confirmed to The New York Times by friend Julia Campanelli speaking on behalf of his sister Mary Ann Quinton.

Making his name in the Off (and Off Off) Broadway theater world initially with his partner in life and art, the actor, playwright and director Charles Ludlam, Quinton would star in numerous productions at the Greenwich Village playhouse of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company, founded by Ludlam in 1967.

Quinton and Ludlam met in the mid-1970s and would remain together until Ludlam’s death from AIDS-related pneumonia in 1987. Their partnership would produce dozens of glitter-filled, sequined stage comedies that were among the first and most beloved examples of queer theater of the 1970s, ’80s and, with Quinton leading the way after Ludlam’s death, the early ’90s.

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