Chicago, IL) Director, May–June 2001 La Comédie Française, Paris. Director, March–April 2000, September–November, 2000 Welfare: The Opera, story by Frederick Wiseman and David Slavitt, libretto by David Slavitt, music by Lenny Pickett. St. Anne's Center for Restoration and the Arts, New York. Director, May 1997 American Music Theater Festival, Philadelphia. Director, June 1992 American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge. Director, May 1988 Hate by Joshua Goldstein. American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge. Director, January 1991 Tonight We Improvise by Luigi Pirandello. American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge. Director of video sequences and actor in role of documentary filmmaker, November 1986 – February 1987 References Sources Aftab, Kaleem Aftab; Alexandra Weltz "Frederick Wiseman" (Interview) on iol.ie Further reading Benson, Thomas W.; Carolyn Anderson, Reality Fictions: The Films of Frederick Wiseman, 2nd edition (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002). (Comprehensive history and criticism of the films.) Bergman, Barry, "43 years after Titicut Follies, it's Berkeley, the movie", UC Berkeley News, September 14, 2010. Grant, Barry Keith, Voyages of Discovery: The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman, University of Illinois Press, 1992. (Wiseman's oeuvre: 1963–1990) Mamber, Stephen, Cinema Verité in America: Studies in Uncontrolled Documentary, Cambridge and London, MIT Press, 1974. Saunders, Dave, Direct Cinema: Observational Documentary and the Politics of the Sixties, London: Wallflower Press, 2007. (Contains a lengthy section on Wiseman's first five films) Siegel Joshua; de Navacelle Marie-Christine, "Frederick Wiseman", The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010. Vachani, Nilita, "Revisiting Fred Wiseman's Law and Order in the Era of Black Lives Matter", Film International, October 14, 2020. External links Zipporah Films Official distributor of Wiseman's work Frederick Wiseman on Reality and film – Statement at La clé des langues A Discussion with Frederick Wiseman and Robert Kramer – Documentary Box Interview with Frederick Wiseman for Slant Magazine by Budd Wilkins Interview with Wiseman at Not Coming to a Theater Near You Frederick Wiseman receives an Honorary Oscar Award at the 2016 Governors Awards 1930 births Academy Honorary Award recipients American documentary filmmakers 20th-century American Jews George Polk Award recipients Living people MacArthur Fellows Peabody Award winners People from Boston Williams College alumni Yale Law School alumni 21st-century American Jews