- Co-founded the San Francisco Actor's Workshop with Jules Irving, Priscilla Pointer and Beatrice Manley.
- Playwright Samuel Beckett once praised Blau as 'overpoweringly intellectual'.
- One of the experimental theater groups he created, Kraken, which had several homes included actor Bill Irwin and director Julie Taymor.
- Blau earned a degree in chemical engineering from NYU. Though he grew up without ever seeing a professional play, he wrote some plays in college and submitted them to Stanford University, which led to his acceptance to the dram program there. He collected a master's in drama and then added a Ph.D in English literature.
- His father was a plumber.
- He staged some of the earliest productions of Beckett, Brecht, and Genet in the United States.
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