Late Playwright Milan Stitt Honored By Family & Friends 6/1 At MTC's Stage 1

There will be a celebration of Milan Stitt's life June 1st at 4pm at Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage 1 at NY City Center, 131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Aves.

Milan Stitt, American playwright and educator, passed away on March 12 at age 68. Stitt's most well known work is the acclaimed hit The Runner Stumbles, with a plot based on real events about a priest on trial in Michigan in 1911.

The work was originally given to Austin Pendleton, who then gave the play to Lynne Meadow of Manhattan Theater Club. The play was first performed in 1974 and then adapted into a film in 1979 starring Dick Van Dyke, Kathleen Quinlan, Beau Bridges, Ray Bolger and Tammy Grimes.

Stitt was born in Detroit, Michigan. He acted as the chairman of the play-writing program at the Yale School of Drama for four years and taught dramatic writing at Princeton, NYU and University of Michigan.