William Dunlap (disambiguation)

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William Dunlap (1766–1839) was a pioneer of American theater.

William Dunlap was a pioneer of American theater. He was a producer, playwright, and actor, as well as a historian. He managed two of New York City's earliest and most prominent theaters, the John Street Theatre and the Park Theatre. He was also an artist, despite losing an eye in childhood.

William Dunlap may also refer to:

William Dunlap Simpson (1823–1890), Governor of South Carolina
William Claiborne Dunlap (1798–1872), U.S. Representative from Tennessee
William R. Dunlap, American artist, arts commentator and educator
William B. Dunlap, former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate
Bill Dunlap (William James Dunlap, 1909–1980), Major League Baseball player

William Dunlap Simpson was the 78th Governor of South Carolina from February 26, 1879, when the previous governor, Wade Hampton, resigned to take his seat in the U.S. Senate, until 1880. That year Simpson resigned to become Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court.

William Claiborne Dunlap was an American politician who represented Tennessee's United States House of Representatives, Tennessee thirteenth district in the United States House of Representatives.

William (Bill) R. Dunlap is an American artist, writer, and arts commentator on Washington, DC's flagship PBS station, WETA-TV. With a career that has spanned more than four decades, his large scale narrative paintings and constructions concern themselves with history, allegory and the art making process. "Hypothetical Realism" is a term Dunlap coined to describe his work in both the visual arts and fiction - "the places and things I paint and describe are not real, but they could be." Dunlap is an avid and accomplished printmaker as well as painter, sculptor and photographer. His work is included in collections such as the New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, Mississippi Museum of Art Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Riggs Bank, IBM Corporation, Federal Express, The Equitable Collection, Arkansas Art Center, the United States State Department, and United States Embassies throughout the world. Dunlap is also the author of Short Mean Fiction (ISBN 9781936946709), published April 1, 2016 by Nautilus Press, a collection of 15 stories with excerpts from sketchbooks which read "like tales from the Old Testament rampant with sex violence and death."

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