Robert Whitehead (March 3, 1916 – June 15, 2002) was a Canadian theatre producer. His first production was Medea, starring Judith Anderson and John Gielgud, and he won the Outer Critics Circle Award five times. He was nominated for 19 Tony and Drama Desk Awards, winning 4 Tony Awards and 5 Drama Desk Awards. Life His father owned textile mills, and his mother, Selena Mary LaBatt Whitehead, was an opera singer. (The actor Hume Cronyn was Whitehead's cousin on the LaBatt side.) He went to Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario, then worked as a commercial photographer before studying acting at the New York School of the Theatre. He spent the Second World War years as an ambulance driver in North Africa and Italy. Whitehead had a long-term association with fellow producer Roger L. Stevens. In 1964, the Lincoln Center Repertory Theatre opened with Robert Whitehead and Elia Kazan as its heads and Harold Clurman as literary adviser. In 1968, Whitehead married Zoe Caldwell, who starred in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. (His first wife Virginia, an antique dealer whom he married in 1948, died in 1965.) The couple bought property in Pound Ridge, a mountain area in New York State, and built a house there. Caldwell, who won a Tony as Brodie, later appeared for Whitehead in a revival of Medea (with Judith Anderson as the nurse), Lillian, a one-woman show about Lillian Hellman, and Terrence McNally's Master Class, in which she played Maria Callas. Honours 2002 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. The Commercial Theater Institute gives an annual award for "Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Theater Producing" which is named for Robert Whitehead. Broadway Productions Master Class - Nov 05, 1995 - Jun 29, 1997 Broken Glass - Apr 24, 1994 - Jun 26, 1994 Park Your Car in Harvard Yard - Nov 07, 1991 - Feb 22, 1992 The Speed of Darkness - Feb 28, 1991 - Mar 30, 1991 Artist Descending a Staircase - Nov 30, 1989 - Dec 31, 1989 A Few Good Men - Nov 15, 1989 - Jan 26, 1991 The Petition - Apr 24, 1986 - Jun 29, 1986 Lillian - Jan 16, 1986 - Feb 23, 1986 Death of a Salesman - Sep 14, 1984 - Nov 18, 1984 Death of a Salesman - Mar 29, 1984 - Jul 01, 1984 Medea - May 2, 1982 - Jun 27, 1982