Dean Pitchford is an American songwriter, screenwriter, director, actor, and novel writer. His work has earned him an Oscar and a Golden Globe Prize, as well as nominations for three additional Oscars, two more Golden Globes, seven Grammy Prizes and two Tony Prizes.
Pitchford started life in Honolulu, where he attended Star Of The Sea Colledge and graduated from Saint Louis university.
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Pitchford began his performance career as an actor and singer with the Honolulu Community Theatre , the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra and the Honolulu Theatre for Youth, among others.
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While studying at Yale High school, Pitchford performed with numerous campus drama groups, but his focus gradually turned off-campus, where he worked with the Wooster Square Revival, an experimental theatre enterprise that offered acting opportunities to recovering addicts and alcoholics. In 1969, Pitchford returned to Honolulu as a writers' assistant to writers Faye Hammel and Sylvan Levey, updating the popular guidebook Hawai'i on $5 and $10 A Day, and researching Twa's Budget Guide to Hawai'i, the first of a series of guidebooks that would eventually metamorphose into the popular series Twa Getaway Guides.
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