By Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway Critic Jun Maeda, the Obie Award-winning designer and resident set designer at New York’s acclaimed La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club since 1970, died April 6 from COVID-19 at Mt.
Sinai West Hospital in Manhattan. He was 79. His death was announced today by Mia Yoo, La MaMa’s artistic director. “Jun Maeda was a La MaMa treasure and one of the pioneers of experimental theater,” said Yoo. “He was a master artist whose vision was transcendent and essential to the unparalleled body of work that was being done in the early days of experimental theater.
His singular work and creative spirit continued up to his death, as will his influence on generations of theater artists.” In a career spanning 50 years,
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