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Ira Hauptman

IRA HAUPTMAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Ira Hauptman is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. His plays include Private Messiah at the Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theatre and at Moving Arts, both in Los Angeles; Monument Valley, read by A.S.K. Theatre Projects; Cinema of the Year Zeroat the Manhattan Theatre Club; Walkmanand the Fall of entyrondelphiacocomworld, both at FirstStage in Hollywood. Mr. Hauptman has written for Partisan Review, the New Republic, Parabasis and other magazines. He teaches at Queens College.

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

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

         Godot, Act 3         Partition         Starry Messenger

Godot, Act 3

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part of International CringeFest '10

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short play

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Partition

Synopsis:
Two geniuses. Two worlds. One maddening riddle. In 1913, a young, self-taught mathematical genius in India named Srinivasa Ramanujan is invited to england to work with G. H. Hardy, a Cambridge professor. But just as mathematics draws these two men from vastly different cultures together, it also possesses the power to destroy them. a riveting fantasy based on real events.

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Ensemble Studio Theatre (Staged Reading) (New York, NY, United States)    2002

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
140-145 min Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  4 males, 1 female (5-6 actors possible: 4-5 males, exactly 1 female)

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Starry Messenger

Synopsis:
"Starry Messenger" was one of Galileo's most revolutionary works. It was the first scientific paper about the universe as seen through a telescope, and contained confounding ideas about the moon, stars and planets. This new play of the same name is by Ira Hauptman, and is a modern retelling of Galileo's resistance and ultimate capitulation to the Inquisition over his support of the Copernican theory of the earth's rotation. there is ample Drama in the history of Galileo's famous recantation of his belief that the earth moves. It's rumored that even after Galileo swore his recantation, he muttered "But still it moves." Hauptman's seven character play is unique in that it traces the effects of Galileo's ordeals on his family - his son and two daughters - and his children's role in his decision to renounce his discoveries. Notions of science, faith, demons, madness, and self-sacrifice are raised and overturned. as Cardinals Borgia and Zacchia negotiate with Galileo over his recantation, we are also afforded a close look at the process of reconciling new science with the power structure - a clash that we are mindful of in our present-day conflicts over evolution and global warming.
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Theater for the New City
155 First avenue, New York, NY 10009    27 Jan 2011

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Genre:
90 min Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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