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Hershel Zohn was born in Russia in 1909. His family emigrated to the United States in 1922, when Zohn was fourteen years old. In Manhattan he discovered the theatre and worked as a play reader, senior researcher, and translator in the New York Public Library Theatre Collection. He acted with the Yiddish Art Theatre and the Federal Theatre in the 1930s. In 1940, Zohn directed his first play, an original, in Greenwich Village. He had more acting offers, but in 1941 was drafted and served four years as supply sergeant in the U.S. Army.

Following World War II, Zohn earned Bachelor of Arts (1948) and Masters of Arts (1949) degrees at the University of Denver. He also studied at New York, Northwestern, and Cornell universities. After working at Highlands University in Las Vegas, New Mexico, Zohn joined the faculty at New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (later New Mexico State University) in 1950.

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Theatre director and professor at New Mexico State University from 1950-1975. Zohn began his theatre career in New York during the 1920s. He earned a Masters of Arts degree at the University of Denver in 1949. During his tenure at NMSU, Zohn toured the Far East with the student troupe, the Playmakers, saw a new campus theatre built, chaired the Southwest Theatre Conference, and guest-directed plays in Mexico City. He appeared with the Playmakers as Prince Bolkonski in War and Peace and as Tevye ...

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