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Warren Hoffman

WARREN HOFFMAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Warren Hoffman, a Philadelphia-born and based writer, is a Core Playwright at InterAct Theater for 2012-14. His play The Last was named a recipient of the 2008 Foundation for Jewish Culture Theatre Projects Grant, was a two-time finalist for the Dorothy Silver Playwriting Competition, and a semi-finalist for the O'Neill Playwriting Conference. His first play New Words received a reading at Philadelphia Theatre Workshop and was a finalist for the Christopher Brian Wolk Playwriting Award in New York. Other plays include Stitched about clothing factories in China and The Black Slot, a satire about race and the regional theater scene. Warren has taken master classes with Paula Vogel and Craig Lucas. His short plays have been produced in Philadelphia's first-ever One-Minute Play Festival. Warren was the literary manager and dramaturg for Philadelphia Theatre Company for three years, and in New York, served as the Associate Artistic Director of Jewish Repertory Theatre. Warren did his undergraduate training in literature at the University of Pittsburgh and received his PhD in American literature from the University of California-Santa Cruz. He has taught literature, theater, and American studies at multiple universities. Warren earned rave reviews for his book The Passing Game: Queering Jewish American Culture published by Syracuse University Press and his new book The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical will be published by Rutgers University Press in 2014.

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         Black Slot         Last, The         New Words         Stitched

Black Slot

Synopsis:
Beth, a dramaturg, spends all her waking hours reading scripts in the hopes of finding "the one" that will please her boss Pam. And indeed, she has just discovered Tim, a young African American playwright, whose work is miles beyond anything else she has read so far. Unfortunately, Beth can't get Tim's play produced because the theater's "black slot" has already been taken by legendary playwright August Wilson. Before they know it, Tim and Beth have hatched a plan to show up the racism and hypocrisy of the American regional theater, but things quickly get out of hand in this satire filled with talking scripts and theatrical forgery.

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1st Produced:
[reading] Core Playwrights Weekend, Philadelphia    29 Jun 2014

Organisations:
InterAct Theatre

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/the-black-slot   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama 120 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Last, The

Synopsis:
Rosa Schwartzman is the worlds last Holocaust survivor, and thats big news, especially for the Foundation for Holocaust Remembrance, Inc., an organization dedicated to remembering the Holocaust. The Foundations head officer, Helen, has asked the organizations most enthusiastic go-getter, Daniel Stern, to secure Rosa for a Holocaust Awareness tour and to serve as her handler. Rosa, though, has no interest in going, but Rosas daughter, Debby, smells profit and serving as her mothers legal agent, signs her mother to a tour for a tidy profit of several million dollars. Over the course of a year, Daniel and Rosa confront the commercialism of tragedy head on and question their own ideas about remembrance and forgiveness while the marketing of this genocide remembrance tour spins out of control leading to tragic consequences for everyone involved.

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1st Produced:
[reading] Interact Theatre Company, Philadelphia, PA    Oct 2008

Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/the-last   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama 135 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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New Words

Synopsis:
David just needs to pass his Yiddish class so he can graduate from college, but despite being the grandson of a once-famous Yiddish theater actress, he just can't seem to wrap his tongue around the language. With some help from his Chinese American best friend, an Orthodox tutor, and even his grandmother, just maybe, David will be able to learn the language and discover some things about himself in the process.

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1st Produced:
Reading at Fresh Fruit Festival, NYC    2005

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/new-words   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
farce 120 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Stitched

Synopsis:
June 2009: Michael Jackson is dead and sisters Mei and Qiao work all day in a factory in Dongguan, China sewing clothes that they will never wear. Thousands of miles away in Berkeley, California, the Charles family just wants to lead decent lives, but their shopping habits seem to be getting the best of them. Two families connected by a pop icon, dreams of a better life, and a single shirt that stitches their lives together.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
[reading] Core Playwrights Weekend, Philadelphia    June 2013

Organisations:
InterAct Theatre

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/stitched   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Drama 120 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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