Richmond Crinkley; Co-Producer of ‘The Elephant Man’

Richmond Crinkley, 49, co-producer of “The Elephant Man” on Broadway and later executive director of Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater. Crinkley began his theater career in 1969 in Washington, D.C., as program director at the Folger Shakespeare Library and producer at the Folger Theater Group, presenting such plays as “Total Eclipse,” “Happy Days” and “Subject to Fits.” Crinkley later became executive director of the American National Theater and Academy and producer of its theater program at St. Peter’s Church in New York. He first presented “The Elephant Man” in 1978. It moved to Broadway in April, 1979, and won Tony and New York Drama Critics Circle awards for best play. Among the other shows Crinkley produced on Broadway were “Tintypes” in 1980 and “Passion” in 1983. In Richmond, Va., on Sunday of bone marrow cancer.