 Gelber's writing was also supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a CBS Fellowship from Yale University.In 1973 the New York Shakespeare Festival produced "Barbary Shore", Gelber's adaptation of a 1951 novel written by Norman Mailer.His next production, entitled "Farmyard" and staged by the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1975, was an adaptation of Franz Xaver Kroetz' 1971 play "Stallerhof".