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CHIP DEFFAA

  (1951 - )
Nationality:    USA
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ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award-winner Chip Deffaa is an internationally-produced playwright and director with a great love of show business. He is also the author of eight acclaimed books dealing with music and popular culture, including Blue Rhythms and Voices of the Jazz Age, both published by the University of Illinois Press. In the past year, Deffaa has been represented, as a playwright and director, with three different plays at three different festivals in New York--"The Seven Little Foys" at the Fringe Festival, "Theater Boys" at the Fresh Fruit Festival, and "A Few Moments. . ." at the Strawberry Festival. In addition, his award-winning "George M. Cohan Tonight!" opened at the Edinburgh, Scotland, Fringe Festival. And his "Johnny Mercer Jamboree" is currently running at the Rochester Downstairs Cabaret Theatre. For 18 years, Deffaa covered entertainment--including jazz, cabaret, and theater--for The New York Post. He has written for magazines ranging from Down Beat to Entertainment Weekly. He has won an ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award, a New Jersey Press Association Award and IRNE AWARD (Independent Reviewers of New England). He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers, the Drama Desk, the American Theater Critics Association, the Jazz Journalists Association, and NARAS (which awards the Grammy's). He has written and directed in New York no less than five different shows about George M. Cohan--the most recent being "George M. Cohan Tonight!" (starring Jon Peterson), originally produced Off-Broadway in New York by the Irish Repertory Theater. That show has been produced in numerous cities, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Coral Springs, Florida, to Edinburgh, Scotland and Seoul, Korea! The George M. Cohan Project originated at the Chip Deffaa Invitational Theater Festival, held at the Chashama Theaters on 42nd Street, New York City. Deffaa has written assorted other shows, too, including The Johnny Mercer Jamboree, Mad About the Boy, One Night with Fanny Brice, The Family that Sings Together, Song-and-Dance Kids, and Theater Boys. His musical comedy The Seven Little Foys recently had its world premiere at the Seven Angels Theatre in Waterbury, Connecticut, and then had its New York premiere at the Fringe Festival. Deffaa was educated at Princeton University, where he was an editor of The Tiger Magazine. He has been a trustee of The Tiger for more than a quarter-century.

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

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

        Fanny Brice Story, The         George M Cohan Tonight!         Irving Berlin and Co         Irving Berlin Ragtime Revue         Irving Berlin's America         Mad About The Boy         One Night With Fanny Brice         Seven Little Foys, The         Theater Boys         Yankee Doodle Dandy