Barry Edelstein

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rdf:langString Barry Edelstein is an American theatre director and author. He was appointed as Artistic Director of the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California, on October 17, 2012. He was also Director of the New York Shakespeare Festival / Public Theater's Shakespeare Lab conservatory, 2007-2012, and Director of the Public Theater's Shakespeare Initiative, 2008-2012. Edelstein was born in Paterson, New Jersey, on March 11, 1965, and grew up in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. He graduated from Fair Lawn High School in 1982. He graduated from Tufts University summa cum laude in 1986 and won a Rhodes Scholarship. He matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1986 and graduated in 1988 with an M.Phil. in English Renaissance Drama.