Blanche Marvin MBE (née Schein; born 17 January 1925),[1] also known as Blanche Zohar, is an American-born theatre critic, producer, writer, and former actress and dancer, long-based in London.
[3] She reportedly left home at age 14 to act and dance on Broadway, before appearing in Lute Song (1946), which starred Mary Martin and Yul Brynner.
[3] Marvin was reportedly courted by Marlon Brando and became a close friend of Tennessee Williams, whom she met through Margo Jones, who directed the Broadway production of The Glass Menagerie.
She created the Empty Space Peter Brook Award in 1991, and endowed it personally.
[3] Marvin was made an Honorary Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2010, for services to theatre,[3] and appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 16 November 2012.