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American dramatist

Mordecai (Max) Gorelik (August 25, – March 7, ) was an American theatrical designer, producer and director.

Life and work

Born August 25, , in Shchedrin near Minsk, Russia, Mordecai (Max) Gorelik immigrated with his family to the United States in to escape the pogroms that killed most of his family.

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After graduating from the Pratt Institute of Fine Arts in Brooklyn in , he worked for a time with Robert Edmond Jones, the pioneer American set designer who became his mentor.

Gorelik rendered in a wide variety of media and styles working with the most famous designers of the s and s – Robert Edmond Jones, Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, Norman Bel Geddes, Lee Simonson, Jo Mielziner, Oliver Messel, Aleksandr Golovin, Henri Matisse, André Derain, and Cleon Throckmorton.

He worked for the most prestigious companies—the Provincetown Players, the Theatre Guild on Broadway, the Group Theatre New York, and the Actors Laboratory Theater Biography - Graphic Organizer - Saylor Academy RYFA