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AVI GLICKSTEIN
Nationality: USA
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Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised in Worcester, MA, and Miami Beach, FL, Avi Glickstein is currently a Brooklyn-based writer and actor. He frequently collaborates with Object Collection (www.objectcollection.us), an experimental theater and music performance group, and is a Company Member of Polybe + Seats (www.polybeandseats.org). For P+S, he has contributed writing to The Charlotte Salomon Project (which was the recipient of a National Foundation for Jewish Culture New Play Commission, a Mabou Mines/Suite Residency & Grant, and a sponsored residency at the University of Michigan) and was commissioned to write Granada, which P+S produced at the Access Theater in Soho in November 2009. He also produced and performed in their week of plays for Suzan-Lori Parks 365 Days/365 Plays at various venues in Brooklyn and at the Public Theater. His ten-minute play Pair and a Spare was published in Applause Books 2009-2010 Best American Short Plays and another ten-minute, Generator City, was produced at NYU/Tischs 2008 Ten-Minute Play Festival, selected for the KCACTF, Region II Festival in Philadelphia, and produced as part of Adelphi Universitys Ten-Minute Play Festival. Full-lengths include A Small Tight Voice (semi-finalist for wordBRIDGE Playwrights Lab), In-Patient, and Alter Idem, which received a reading at the Public Theater in May 2009, was part of Naked Angels 1st Mondays Series in October 2009, and was selected as a Semi-Finalist for the 2010 Eugene ONeill Theatre Conference. A graduate of Columbia University and the William Esper Studios Meisner Training Program, he received his MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU/Tisch, where he was the recipient of the Dalio Family Foundation Scholarship. Upcoming: A History of Launching Ships (somewhat after Washington Irving), commissioned and produced by P+S, will premiere in a site-specific production in the Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG92.
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Alter Idem Granada History of Launching Ships (somewhat after Washington Irving), A Pair And A SpareAlter Idem
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Carly Lancaster, a waitress in rural Pennsylvania, tries to wrestle with the repercussions both for her marriage and her son of her husbands realization that he is supposed to be a woman.
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read at the Cherry Lane Theatre as part of Naked Angelss First Mondays series 05 Oct 2009
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Top of PageGranada
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Granada begins in 1992 as the King of Spain prepares to symbolically welcome Jews back to Spain after 500 years of banishment. a young egyptian Jewish woman has been invited to stand in for all of those exiled-but following the ceremony, she reveals to Spain's prince that she believes herself to be the resurrection of Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), philosopher, royal physician, and Jewish cultural icon. Quite suddenly, the prince's world is not what it was before her revelation: he is pursued by a bear, seduced by a princess hatched from a grapefruit, and nearly betrayed by his trusty aide-de-camp. Is this the beginning of the Messianic age? Bringing together characters and storytelling from Sephardic Jewish folklore and history and weaving from Spain to Israel to Morocco and back again, Granada explores issues of identity, both religious and national, and the uncanny link among followers of a tradition separated by continents but united by a state of exile.
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Access Theatre, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013 05 Nov 2009
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Polybe and Seats
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Top of PageHistory of Launching Ships (somewhat after Washington Irving), A
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Playwright Avi Glickstein has used the story of real-life Revolutionary War-era heroine Elizabeth Burgin and archival materials from BLDG 92s collection, as well as the gothic New York tales of Washington Irving, as a jumping-off point to create a uniquely American, ghostly tale. echoing the Yards history as a center of innovation, reinvention, and sacrifice in service of a larger purpose and inspired by the history of womens experiences at the Navy Yard, A History of Launching Ships is the first-ever theatrical production at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This site-specific production will lead audiences through the three-floor exhibition center over the course of the performance, stopping to watch scenes among BLDG 92's exhibits. the Yards spirit and elements of its history act as seeds for the plays mysterious story of four women isolated together inside the gates of a Naval Commandants home on the banks of an unnamed bay. In the winter of 1779, a woman named Elizabeth Burgin defied New York Citys British occupiers by helping hundreds of patriots escape from prison ships anchored offshore of what is now the Brooklyn Navy Yard. With a bounty on her head, she fled the city. A History of Launching Ships joins Burgin during her flight from the British and places her in the middle of a fantastical tale that echoes the gothic stories of Washington Irving. the play tells the story of the three women who take Burgin in and hide her. each woman seeks an escape from her own reality, and, together, they realize that the only way to freedom might be on a ship they build themselves.
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Bldg92, The Brooklyn Navy YardS New Exhibition And Visitors Center, Located At 63 Flushing Avenue, NY 11 Oct 2012
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Polybe and Seats
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Play/Drama 90 min
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Top of PagePair And A Spare
makes a clever comment on the failures of human connection
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in the Best American Short Plays, 2009-2010, Hal Leonard Corporation (august 1, 2011) 978-1557837622
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short play
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