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Marvin Chernoff

MARVIN CHERNOFF

  

Nationality:    USA
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Marvin Chernoff is a native New Yorker who was born in Brooklyn, but grew up in upstate Glens Falls, New York. He has been a professor of counseling and educational psychology at Indiana University and California State University at Northridge, as well as a psychotherapist in private practice. His B.A. is from the State University of New York at albany, his M.A. is from the State University of Iowa, his Ph.D. is from Case-Western Reserve University, and he took a four-year postdoctoral in adlerian Psychotherapy in Chicago. He is a published and produced playwright. the New York Times review of his Off Broadway play CHaIM's LOVe SONG, called the play a "rich affecting Drama," that "balances wit and grave wisdom gracefully," and is "a funny, philosophical, lovely evening." It ran for over 200 performances, has been produced many times, and is published by Samuel French Other Chernoff plays have been produced at such L.A. Theaters as: the Company of angels, the West Coast Jewish Theater, the Matrix Theater, the Grace Players, the American Renegade Theater, the actor's art Theater, the Group Repertory Theater, and the StElla adler Theater. He is a member of the association of Los Angeles Playwrights, First Stage of La (where all of his plays have been developed,) the association of Jewish Theaters, and the Dramatist's Guild of America. He lives in California with his psychotherapist wife, Dr. Sharon Bloom. Between them, they have four terrific children and three absolutely perfect grand-daughters.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Marvin Chernoff's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

        Carmen Cohen From the Herring Factory         Chaim's Love Song         Freud In Tombstone         Howie Monologues, The         Jonah Consulting Prophet         Kafka's Kastle Kareer!         Love On the Rocks         Perfect Analyst, The         Reckless Rabbi, The         Shund: A Pincus Senior Center Miracle To Remember         Waking Charlotte Levy         Withering Heights



Carmen Cohen From the Herring Factory

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Chaim's Love Song

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a retired mailman in Brooklyn is an American Tevye who tells his life story to a woman who can't help changing as she encounters this exotic world

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Freud In Tombstone

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Howie Monologues, The

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a first generation Russian-American decides to learn everything about America so that he can tell his parents. He starts by biting his teacher in kindergarten

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Jonah Consulting Prophet

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Kafka's Kastle Kareer!

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a comedy based on the life of Franz Kafka

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Love On the Rocks

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Perfect Analyst, The

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Reckless Rabbi, The

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Shund: A Pincus Senior Center Miracle To Remember

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Waking Charlotte Levy

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Two sixty year olds find love

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Withering Heights

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