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Michael Halperin

MICHAEL HALPERIN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc  

Michael Halperin was Story editor for Universal Television and executive Story Consultant at 20th Century-Fox and wrote television episodes for long-running, popular TV series. Halperin co-wrote the best-selling award-winning novel for children Jacob's Rescue: a Holocaust Story (Random House) and wrote Black Wheels (San Val) chosen by the National education association as one of the best books of 2005-2009. His comedy, Freedom, Texas debuted in Los Angeles with the Celebrity Staged Reading Series, 2009. all Steps Necessary was commissioned and premiered by Inkwell Theater April 2006 in Los Angeles. the Chapman Group Rep. Theatre, North Hollywood, California performed a staged reading of his Drama with music Dancing With William Blake in 2006. His one-character play, Mela, was performed in august 2004 in Jerusalem in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of Yad Vashem. Halperin wrote and directed his play the Spark of Reason at the Promenade Playhouse, Santa Monica, California, 2008. His one-act plays Freud at Sinai and Poor Timing have been produced on both the east and west coasts

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

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

         All Steps Necessary         Bed And Breakfast         Chair By the Wall, A         Chestnut Trees         Dancing With William Blake         Driving James Dean         Freedom Texas         Freud At Sinai         Friends at Sinai         Mela         Poor Timing         Silent Prayer         Spark Of Reason

All Steps Necessary

Synopsis:
Nazi officials discuss how they can deal with the Jewish problem and eat pastries.

Notes:
Inspired by A true story

1st Produced:
-     2006

Organisations:
Inkwell Theater

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Bed And Breakfast

Synopsis:
a screenwriter and his psychoanalysist wife by a bed and breakfast establishment

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Genre:
Comedy

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Chair By the Wall, A

Synopsis:
Non-identical twins fight over who will take their late father's seat at the synagogue

Notes:
Based on A short story by Sholem Aleichem

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Genre:
Fifteen minute play

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Chestnut Trees

Synopsis:
A one hundred year old man recalls the event in his childhood that released him from serfdom to a new life in the US

Notes:
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1st Produced:
6X6 Festival Of Short Plays     11 Apr 2013

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Dancing With William Blake

Synopsis:
After fifty years of marriage William's wife dies. He tries to face the compromises he made. When he tries to recapture a lost moment from his youth he finds he has travelled back in time

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Genre:
Drama

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Driving James Dean

Synopsis:
Steve is in trouble - he has a big assignment to finish and has writers block. His parents are not happy that he is dating someone called Riley. His brother gloats about his big success. then Steve meets James Dean

Notes:
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1st Produced:
West Side Jewish Center, Los Angeles     03 Apr 2011

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Genre:
Comedy

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Freedom Texas

Freedom Texas
In this comedy, the year is 1953. 18-year-old Los Angeles college student Steve Weisbart drops out of college after he's offered an unlikely job as a disk jockey/announcer at a small town 1000 watt radio station in the Texas Panhandle. This station specializes in broadcasting to passing semis on their way to deliver cattle in Oklahoma, and the town has its share of greed, lust, evAngelists, bigotry - and some goodness, too. Steve discovers that not all is as it appears in Freedom, Texas, a name that's a clue to the town's past and future.

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1st Published:
JAC Publishing & Promotions (2010)   

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  voice overs

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Freud At Sinai

Synopsis:
Moses has just come down from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments when he meets Sigmund Freud

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Friends at Sinai

Synopsis:
Moses meets Sigmund Freud at the foot of Mount Sinai

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Genre:
One act

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Mela

Synopsis:
a woman recounts how she hid three Jewish children for four and a half years during the Second World War.

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Genre:
Monologue play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Poor Timing

Synopsis:
God tells Moses that he will die when he gets to the border of the Promised Land. So Moses refuses to go.

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Silent Prayer

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1st Produced:
Writers Round Table 6th Annual Short Play Festival, Encino, CA     11 May 2017

Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Spark Of Reason

Spark Of Reason
In amsterdam, Holland, 25 year-old Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza battles against the injustice of a so-called republican government that uses fear to destroy civil liberties. His brash speeches and writing raise the fearful specter in his community of the possibility of a new Inquisition. Spinoza's angry and jealous sister, Rebekah, eager to inherit their father's business, uses her brother's passion for social justice and charges him with heresy. the leaders of the community, anxious to avoid the stigma of disloyalty to the state, latch on to her accusation as a tool for ridding themselves of the young troublemaker. Spinoza falls in love with Clara van den ende, an outspoken, liberated woman who attempts to turn him away from his dogged determination. Failing that, she abandons him to the wrath of his people who wage a devastating battle against Spinoza. His teacher, Saul Levi Morteira, begs him to recant. When the young man refuses, Morteira becomes his chief inquisitor at a trial that will eventually affect society, politics, religion and science.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     2000

Organisations:
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1st Published:
JAC Publishing (2009)   

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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