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HOWARD GINSBERG
Nationality: USA
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Literary Agent: The Sharland Organisation
Howard Ginsberg is both Playwright and Bookwriter. He is an American who commutes between his homes in Covent Garden and San Francisco. He is the author of 14 full-length plays and was for many years in practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, providing him with an unusual background to plumb the depths of his complex characters. His current project is a musical about the 5th Duchess of Devonshire and Princess DianA. He has a strong Book that has been developed with several collaborators and is now looking for a composer or composer/lyricist. Productions of his plays include MURDeR IN PaRIS (BBC Radio 4 starring Alan Bates with subsequent stage productions at Basingstoke and Windsor); MY MaTISSe at edinburgh; in numerous U.S. cities JeFFeRSON & aDaMS (stage, radio, and film). In development: WHaT's a GIRL TO DO, a funeral farce and YeS, DOCTOR! a therapy comedy. Recent productions: MY MaTISSe Jermyn Street Theatre, London, mid-November to early December 2006--4 stars from TIMe OUT; MY MaTISSe (1-woman version) Portland, Oregon May 2007--excEllent reviews; Upcoming productions: JeFFeRSON & aDaMS (Williamsburg, Virginia and Adams National Historical Park, Quincy, Ma); MY MaTISSe (one-woman version) at the New end Theatre, Hampstead, November 2007) . Member: Dramatists Guild (U.S.) and Writers Guild (U.K)
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Murder In Paris My MatisseMurder In Paris
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It is a useful biographical device to show us Henri Matisse solely through the eyes of the women in his life: mother, wife, daughter and various muses/models/lovers. You could be cruel and say that what emerges is a cubist portrait of the artist, seeing as it was Picasso, co-inventor of cubism, who challenged Matisse throughout his life. What emerges in writer Howard Ginsberg's fine play is a life-long fight between the women for attention and ownership. the title appears over and over - 'my Matisse, Matisse et moi,' they say. In a relay race of domestic unrest we move from the garrets of Paris to the good life on the Cote d'azur, and then the war, when an ageing, ill Matisse made anodyne broadcasts for the Vichy government. all the way through, the painter discarded the women once he had grown bored of painting them.
Jonathan Gibbs, Time Out London
Jonathan Gibbs, Time Out London
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Roman Eagle Lodge, Edinburgh 2002
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