Robert W. Dowling
Robert W. Dowling (September 9, 1895 – August 28, 1973) was a real estate investor and philanthropist in the New York City area. Dowling College was named for him.
Biography
Robert Whittle Dowling was born in New York City.[1] His father Robert Emmett Dowling was president of the City Investing real estate firm. In 1915 he made the first recorded swim around Manhattan (in 13 hours 45 minutes).[2] Following his father's death in 1943, he took over his father's company.
Although Dowling had no formal education beyond high school, his advice was sought for the design and establishment of the Parkchester, Stuyvesant Town, and Peter Cooper Village real estate ventures. All three ventures marked a change in the classic New York City grid to create housing developments within a campus setting.[3] Dowling received a Special Tony Award in 1948 for his contribution to theatre as result of his ownership of the Fulton Theatre, Morosco Theatre and Coronet Theatre and Gaiety Theatre[4]
In 1957, he was among the developers who transformed the Globe Movie Theatre into a legitimate Broadway theatre now called the Lunt-Fontaine Theatre. He was among the producers of the original Sound of Music.[5] Dowling, who was a friend of Adelphi University dean Allyn P. Robinson, provided a grant of $3 million in 1968, which allowed the Adelphi campus in Oakdale, New York to become independent and it became Dowling College. Dowling College closed in 2016.
References
- ^ "Robert Dowling of City Investing Dead; Spearheaded Civic and Planning Drives". The New York Times. 1973-08-29. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
- ^ - New York Times - September 6, 1915
- ^ "Long Island South Shore History : BIOGRAPHY Robert W Dowling". Dowling.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-06-12. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
- ^ Zvonchenko, Walter. "Presenting a Stage for a Nation (May 2002) - Library of Congress Information Bulletin". Loc.gov. Retrieved 2011-04-06.
- ^ "The Official Website - Ticketmaster is the authorized ticket service for this theatre". Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Retrieved 2011-04-06.
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- Dora Chamberlain / Ira and Rita Katzenberg / Jules Leventhal / Burns Mantle / P. A. MacDonald / Vincent Sardi Sr. (1947)
- Vera Allen / Paul Beisman / Joe E. Brown / Cast of The Importance of Being Earnest / Robert W. Dowling / Experimental Theatre Inc. / Rosalind Gilder / June Lockhart / Mary Martin / George Pierce / James Whitmore (1948)
- No award (1949)
- Maurice Evans / Philip Faversham / Brock Pemberton (1950)
- Ruth Green (1951)
- Charles Boyer / Judy Garland / Edward Kook (1952)
- Danny Kaye / Beatrice Lillie (1953)
- No award (1954)
- Proscenium Productions (1955)
- Fourth Street Chekov Theatre / City Center / The New York Public Library Theatre Collection / The Shakespearewrights / The Threepenny Opera (1956)
- American Shakespeare Festival / Jean-Louis Barrault / Robert Russell Bennett / William Hammerstein / Joseph Harbuck / Paul Shyre (1957)
- Mrs. Martin Beck / New York Shakespeare Festival (1958)
- Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay / John Gielgud / Cast of La Plume de Ma Tante (1959)
- Burgess Meredith and James Thurber / John D. Rockefeller III (1960)
- David Merrick / The Theatre Guild (1961)
- Brooks Atkinson / Richard Rodgers / Franco Zeffirelli (1962)
- Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore / Irving Berlin / W. McNeil Lowry (1963)
- Eva Le Gallienne (1964)
- Gilbert Miller / Oliver Smith (1965)
- Helen Menken (1966)
- No award (1967)
- APA-Phoenix Theatre / Pearl Bailey / Carol Channing / Maurice Chevalier / Marlene Dietrich / Audrey Hepburn / David Merrick (1968)
- Leonard Bernstein / Carol Burnett / Rex Harrison / The National Theatre Company of Great Britain / The Negro Ensemble Company (1969)
- Noël Coward / Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt / New York Shakespeare Festival / Barbra Streisand (1970)
- Ingram Ash / Elliot Norton / Playbill / Roger L. Stevens (1971)
- Fiddler on the Roof / Ethel Merman / Richard Rodgers / The Theatre Guild-American Theatre Society (1972)
- The Actors Fund of America / John Lindsay / Shubert Organization (1973)
- Actors' Equity Association / A Moon for the Misbegotten / Candide / Peter Cook and Dudley Moore / Harold Friedlander / Bette Midler / Liza Minnelli / Theatre Development Fund / John F. Wharton (1974)
- Al Hirschfeld (1975)
- George Abbott / Richard Burton / Circle in the Square Theatre / Thomas H. Fitzgerald / Mathilde Pincus (1976)
- Cheryl Crawford / Equity Liberty Theatre / Barry Manilow / National Theatre of the Deaf / Diana Ross / Lily Tomlin (1977)
- Irving Berlin / Stan Dragoti and Charles Moss (1978)
- Walter F. Diehl / Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center / Henry Fonda / Richard Rodgers (1979)
- Richard Fitzgerald / Helen Hayes / Mary Tyler Moore / Hobe Morrison (1980)
- Lena Horne (1981)
- Radio City Music Hall / The Actors Fund of America / Warner Communications (1982)
- No award (1983)
- A Chorus Line / Peter Feller / La Tragedie de Carmen (1984)
- Yul Brynner / New York State Council on the Arts (1985)
- No award (1986)
- George Abbott / Jackie Mason (1987)
- Brooklyn Academy of Music (1988)
- No award (1989)
- No award (1990–1992)
- Oklahoma! (1993)
- Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy (1994)
- Carol Channing / National Endowment for the Arts / Harvey Sabinson (1995)
- No award (1996)
- Bernard B. Jacobs (1997)
- Edward E. Colton / Ben Edwards (1998)
- Uta Hagen / Arthur Miller / Isabelle Stevenson (1999)
- Dame Edna: The Royal Tour / T. Edward Hambleton (2000)
- Paul Gemignani (2001)
- Julie Harris / Robert Whitehead (2002)
- Cy Feuer / Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam on Broadway (2003)
- James M. Nederlander (2004)
- Edward Albee (2005)
- Sarah Jones / Harold Prince (2006)
- No award (2007)
- Robert Russell Bennett / Stephen Sondheim (2008)
- Jerry Herman (2009)
- Alan Ayckbourn / Marian Seldes (2010)
- Athol Fugard / Philip J. Smith (2011)
- Actors' Equity Association / Hugh Jackman (2012)
- Bernard Gersten / Ming Cho Lee / Paul Libin (2013)
- Jane Greenwood (2014)
- John Cameron Mitchell / Tommy Tune (2015)
- Sheldon Harnick / Marshall W. Mason / National Endowment for the Arts / Miles Wilkin (2016)
- James Earl Jones (2017)
- John Leguizamo / Andrew Lloyd Webber / Chita Rivera / Bruce Springsteen (2018)
- Rosemary Harris / Marin Mazzie / Terrence McNally / Sonny Tilders and Creature Technology Company / Jason Michael Webb / Harold Wheeler (2019)
- The Broadway Advocacy Coalition / David Byrne's American Utopia / Freestyle Love Supreme / Graciela Daniele (2020/21)
- Angela Lansbury / James C. Nicola (2022)
- Joel Grey / John Kander (2023)
- Alex Edelman / Abe Jacob / Nikiya Mathis / Jack O'Brien / George C. Wolfe (2024)