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- Birth nameSheldon Arthur Patinkin
- Sheldon Patinkin was born on August 27, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for SCTV (1976), The Monitors (1969) and The Magician of Lublin (1979). He died on September 21, 2014 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Cousin of actor Mandy Patinkin.
- He was chairman of the theater department at Columbia College Chicago. He was a founding member of the Playwrights Theatre Club, the 1950s group that spawned both the Compass Players and The Second City. He had a half-century association with Second City, where he remained an artistic consultant. He also worked with many other Chicago theaters, including the Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
- He was awarded the 1993 Joseph Jefferson Award for Director of a Revue for "Puttin on the Ritz" at the National Jewish Theater in Chicago, Illinois.
- Cousin of Mandy Patinkin.
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