Ron Link (director)

Ron Link (Columbus, Ohio, 1940 – 7 June 1999) was an American theatre director.^[1]

Link directed experimental theatre at New York City's Caffe Cino and La Mama, including directing the young Robert De Niro in Glamour, Glory and Gold, and an unknown actor called Sylvester Stallone in Somerset Maugham's Rain. He also directed Divine (entertainer) in Tom Eyen's Women Behind Bars at the Astor Place Theater in 1974. Moving to Los Angeles he directed Stand-Up Tragedy and Bouncers (play). ^[2][3][4]

References

1. Ron Link, Director of Caffe Cino and La Mama ETC Shows, Dead at 58 14 Jun 1999 "Ron Link, a director of Off-Off Broadway and regional productions, died in Los Angeles June 7 of complications following surgery, the New York Times reported. He was 58."
2. A Whole Load of Front "Given Ron Link was my first experience of a director, I was spoiled – he was caring, nurturing, and supportive. He had been doing the show from the start, and knew it front and back. I felt privileged that someone who had worked with amazing ...
3. Craig B. Highberger Superstar in a housedress: the life and legend of Jackie Curtis -- 2005 - Page 76 "Ron Link was doing his usual slam-bam directing and cursing everybody out. I remember him arguing with Jackie a lot. There was a lot of fighting going on. But that was part of the play, and some of it spilled over. Ron was kind of a Warner ..."
4. Denny Martin Flinn -What they did for love: the untold story behind the making ... -1989 Page 5 "Ron Link was hired to direct. He had never before directed a Broadway musical. Some of the cast came to believe he had never before seen a Broadway musical. Stigwood left others to oversee the preparations and disappeared to his haven ..."