Alan R. Pearlman ’62

Alan died Nov. 23, 2023, in Canterbury, England.

He came to us from Taylor Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh. At Princeton, Alan majored in philosophy and was a member of the Woodrow Wilson Society. A winner of a Fulbright scholarship, he pursued the study of English and comparative literature at Cambridge and Yale. After a year in New Haven, he left for Mississippi, where as a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) he participated in theater and living-art projects allied with the civil-rights movement.

From Mississippi, Alan moved to Berkeley, where he continued his studies and began teaching theater and comparative literature. In 1975, he returned to England to work as a theater officer for Southern Arts. In 1979, Alan became a lecturer at the University of Kent in Canterbury and developed practical as well as an academic drama course. He remained an active faculty participant at Kent for the next three decades.

While teaching, Alan met and married his wife, Britta, and fathered a son, Mikhail “Mischa.” In retirement Alan and Britta enjoyed attending jazz concerts and traveling.

The class extends its condolences to Britta, Mischa, and the family.