Paul Kreppel

Paul Kreppel is an actor, producer, director. On television, he was best known as the pianist, Sonny Mann in the show, Its a Living. In his work as theater director producercreator, he received the 2007 Tony Award for Jay Johnson The Two and Only.

Kreppel was born in Kingston, New York to Adele and Irv Kreppel. He then moved to Boston to attend Emerson College and graduated with honors. Kreppel received an Alumni Achievement Award in 93 and is a member of the Class of 1969. From there, he had started his acting career by starring in the improvisational theater group, The Proposition. When the group, which included Jane Curtin, Josh Mostel, Judith Kahan and Munson Hicks, moved to New York, Kreppel began starring in offBroadway plays, including Godspell and Tuscaloosas Calling Me.... While appearing at the New York Shakespeare Festival, he notably starred with Meryl Streep in the musical, Alice in Concert, by Elizabeth Swados. Others are Agamemnon and Comedy of Errors in the late 1970s.

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