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Barbara Kahn

BARBARA KAHN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Barbara Kahn, a multi-award winning playwright, began her theatrical career while a teenager in Philadelphia, studying with the late Bob Sickinger. She continued her professional acting career Off-Off Broadway while pursuing a B.A. degree in Theatre Arts at Adelphi University. Barbara worked with OOB legends including Tom Eyen, Ron Link, Ted Harris and Robert Dahdah-an excellent apprenticeship. She studied professionally with Sandra Seacat, Roz Valero, Arthur Storch and Marilyn Roberts. Ellen Stewart produced Barbara's first play, co-authored with Ray Hagen, at the world-renowned La MaMa E.T.C. Theater for the New City, under Executive Director Crystal Field, has been the primary New York City home for Barbara's plays since 1994. Her plays have also traveled to both coasts, with productions in Hollywood, San Diego, Phoenix, Boston and Philadelphia. They crossed the Atlantic to Paris, France and Mainz, Germany. Among her many awards are the Torch of Hope for "lifetime achievement in non-profit theatre," the James R. Quirk Award for the Performing Arts for "her memorable contributions to American theatre" and the joint Robert Chesley Foundation Award for lgbt playwright/Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of Taos, NM residency. She has received numerous production grants from the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation for positive presentation of lgbt characters in history. Barbara works as a private coach for both playwrights and actors.

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

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         10014         1918: A House Divided         Annie Get Your Pun         Balad Of Baxter Street, The         Birds On Fire         Co-Op         Co-Op: the Next Generation         Crossing Paths In Washington Square         Crossings: Where W11th Meets W4th Street, Greenwich Village         Cyma's Story         Daughters, Mothers, Sisters And Others         Day To Remember the Staten Island Ferry, The         Forgotten Truths         Ghost Light Now and Then         Ghosts Of 14th Street, The         Gravediggers Of 1971         Heaven And Earth         Hell's Kitchen Has A Tub In It         Island Girls         Joanna         Lady Was A Gentleman         Law & Order Pi         Lifeline         Long Time Passing         Pen Pals         Practice Makes Perfect         Pyrates!         Seating And Other Arrangements         Seating And Other Arrangements         Six Degrees Of Graduate Studies         Spring And Fall Of Eve Adams, The         Stray Cats         Summer In the City         Tempest-Tossed         Three-Mile Limit, The         Unorthodox Behavior         Unreachable Eden         Vanile: the Lost (Last) Xena Episode         Walking From Rumania         War Bonds         Whither Thou Goest

10014

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Miranda Theatre, Manhattan     1996

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1918: A House Divided

1918: A House Divided
a hotly debated war; legislation branding dissenters as unpatriotic; anti-foreign sentiments inspiring anti-immigration laws; families torn apart by generational conflicts; lesbians and gays finding each other in Greenwich Village; music and art flourishing in New York City. No, it isn't 2007-it's 1918: a House Divided. the musical includes artists, Jewish immigrants, lesbians and gays, and a nude artists' model. Original music by allison Tartalia evokes the time period, from patriotic tunes to Yiddish flavored ethnic melodies to ragtime and more. Locations include an artists co-op sketch class, a bohemian club on Macdougal Street, and a drag ball at Webster Hall.
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written by Barbara Kahn; music by Allison Tartalia

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Original cast recording: CD Baby.com

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Annie Get Your Pun

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there is a showdown at the poets cafe tonight between Lovely Rita Metre Maid and aussie annie.

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Balad Of Baxter Street, The

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Play set in the notorious Five Points Neighbourhood in New York in 1855

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Birds On Fire

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Birds on Fire portrays what might have been the lives of four unidentified victims of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Greenwich Village. the production is part of the commemoration of the 100 year anniversary of the disaster. Life-size puppets portray the people in power - factory owner, architect, superintendent of buildings, city alderman - contrasting with the immigrant Jewish and Italian employees. Two women, childhood friends from eastern europe in America for five years, have dreams of a better life beyond the factory. This couple helps a recent arrival from eastern europe who tries hard to adjust to her new and difficult life in America. the young Italian seaman who helped her on the dock jumps ship to find this woman he loved "at first sight." the lives of these four converge in the Triangle Factory. they work hard, play hard during their precious hours of relaxation and share their hopes, dreams, and love. the tragic fire that is the climax of the play steals from them their future as well as their past.
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Music By: Allison Tartalia

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Theater for the New City
155 First aVenue, New York, NY 10009     17 Mar 2011

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Co-Op

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Martha misses a rent payment - the first time that had happened but she still gets evicted from her apartment. She spends the next 28 years living on the street in from of her old block.

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Co-Op: the Next Generation

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What happened before the eviction when Martha was a girl and living there with her mother

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Crossing Paths In Washington Square

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Greenwich Village in 1913

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Theater For The New City, New York     17 Jan 2013

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Crossings: Where W11th Meets W4th Street, Greenwich Village

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Lesbian romantic comedy

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Cyma's Story

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Cyma is a Jewish Russian immigrant who lives in Wyoming with her lover Rachel. On the eve of the Second World War she writes home

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Philadelphia Fringe Festival     1999

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Harrington Lesbian Fiction Quarterly published by the Haworth Press, 2001   

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Daughters, Mothers, Sisters And Others

Synopsis:
the lives of George Sand and Colleen Curtis

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a full length version of this play is under the title of: Forgotten Truths"

1st Produced:
Madison AVenue Theater, New York     1994

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Day To Remember the Staten Island Ferry, The

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Forgotten Truths

Synopsis:
the lives of George Sand and Colleen Curtis

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a one Act version had the title: "Daughters, Mothers, Sisters And Others"

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New York Public Library     1982

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Ghost Light Now and Then

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Becky and her wife Mandy are appalled by the homophobia in present day New York City. They are transported back to the early 20th century and to the stage of the Greenwich Village Theatre. They find that little has changed with homophobia, racism and anti-Semitism

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Theater For A New City, New York     02 Mar 2017

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Lesbian full length

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Ghosts Of 14th Street, The

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the Ghosts of 14th Street is set in New York City in 1908, when 14th Street was the entertainment capital of the city. In the Biograph Film Studio, the actors film scenes of a primitive one-reeler, while between takes they reveal their dreams, fall in love and practice routines they hope will take them to live theatre. a husband and wife acting team are forced by scandal to work in the 'flickers', an immigrant housekeeper leaves her gangster husband from an arranged marriage, a dancer finds love at the gay hangout, his sister laments her unrequited love for the housekeeper, an African American dancer refuses to perform in blackface, and two stagehands are determined to win the New York Times LimErick Contest. In the Olympic theatre, the play replicates a typical evening of Vaudeville, including dance, comedy skits, female mimickry (cross-dressing), and the song 'yiddishe Yankee Doodle Boy' (lyrics by Barbara Kahn, music by allison Tartalia), as well as the finished film.
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Gravediggers Of 1971

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written by Reigh Hagen And Barbara Kahn. Composer: Jean Campbell & Norman Pederson

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Heaven And Earth

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1937 and a woman in Wyoming wants to become a pilot

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Hell's Kitchen Has A Tub In It

Synopsis:
the history of Hell's Kitchen , New York

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Studio 603, New York     1988

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Comedy

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Island Girls

Synopsis:
A newly graduated social worker is sent to work in a women's petitionary. She falls in love with one of the inmates

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1st Produced:
Theatre For The New City, New York     09 Jan 2014

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Genre:
Lesbian, full length musical

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Joanna

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a Lower east Side lesbian love fable

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Lady Was A Gentleman

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the life story of Charlotte Cushman the famous 19th Century actress

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Gay/Lesbian, historical characters 120 min

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Law & Order Pi

Synopsis:
Detectives and dames on the Lower east Side.

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Lower East Side Festival     2005

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Lifeline

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Village Playwrights, New York     2002

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Long Time Passing

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Inspired by poems written by the playwright's father, Long Time Passing is a fable set in the ruins of Central Park during an endless war. there are no 'sides' in the play, and no politics, only the story of war's devastation on all living things. and in keeping with the spirit of life, there is endless hope amidst the endless war

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Fable

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Pen Pals

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Four friends through the turbulent 21st Century as the US turns from a democracy to a fundamentalist religious dictatorship

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Political Drama

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Practice Makes Perfect

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Fresh Fruit Festival. New York, NY     2012

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Pyrates!

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Based on the real life lesbian pirates anne Bonny and Mary Read

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Music by Jay Kerr

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Seating And Other Arrangements

Synopsis:
Lesbian romantic comedy

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Full length version

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Labrys Theatre, San Diego     1992

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Seating And Other Arrangements

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Nat Horne Theatre, New York     1995

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Six Degrees Of Graduate Studies

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Spring And Fall Of Eve Adams, The

Synopsis:
the Spring and Fall of eve adams recounts the true story of an extraordinary woman who was a victim of homophobia and anti-immigrant hysteria that ultimately led to her death. In 1926 eve adams, a Jewish lesbian from Poland, was proprietor of "eve's Hangout," a tearoom at 129 Macdougal Street, where local poets, musicians and actors congregated and shared their work in salon evenings. eve's haven of artistic and sexual freedom was soon threatened by religious and governmental authorities, leading to her arrest, imprisonment, and deportation. the conflict between progressive and reactionary forces provides the Drama in the play as the characters attempt to live and love free from discrimination. the play conveys not only a long forgotten moment in New York history but sheds light on current threats by holding a mirror to the past.
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Stray Cats

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Summer In the City

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Monologue Play/Drama

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Tempest-Tossed

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Life in post World War Two America

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Three-Mile Limit, The

Synopsis:
On board a trans-Atlantic liner -1927. Gigli who is going to perform at Carnegie Hall; African-American dancer Florence Mills and Alla Nazimova the famous lesbian actress

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Theater For The New City, New York     17 Mar 2016

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Unorthodox Behavior

Synopsis:
Historical Drama inspired by genealogical research.

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Unreachable Eden

Synopsis:
Unreachable eden Dramatizes the life of Polish Jewish lesbian eve adams (born Chava Zloczower) who ran a tearoom on Macdougal Street in 1926, a gathering place for artists, writers and actors. She was deported from the U.S. as an "undesirable alien" and spent the 1930s in Paris, selling banned books to english-speaking tourists. While eve and her friends Henry and June Miller and anais Nin enjoyed both cafe and nightlife in France, in Germany the Nazi government was banning and burning books and implementing its war against Jews, homosexuals and others deemed "undesirable." these parallel worlds collided during World War II, once again putting eve in jeopardy as a Jew, a lesbian and an immigrant. eve's first deportation in 1927 led ultimately to her second deportation, this time from France to auschwitz in her native Poland. This courageous woman deserves to be rescued from forgotten history.
- nytheatre.com

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Theater for the New City
155 First aVenue, New York, NY 10009     09 Feb 2012

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Music By: Arthur Abrams

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Vanile: the Lost (Last) Xena Episode

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Walking From Rumania

Synopsis:
This is a new historical Drama written and directed by Barbara Kahn, inspired by the women-only groups of fusgeyers(pedestrians) who walked across Rumania to escape hardship and discrimination. This description is provided by the playwright: "Five women in a small village prepare to join a larger group that is leaving a nearby city in three months. Two of the women are drawn to each other and plan to stay together in America. a pogrom (rampage against Jews) brings tragedy and provides greater impetus for the women to risk the journey. Two Gypsies function throughout the play as a 'Greek chorus', with folk tales and music that comment on the action. Walking from Rumania concludes on a hopeful note, with the fusgeyers on the verge of beginning their daring escape."
- press release

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War Bonds

War Bonds
Play about women pilots in World War Two

Notes:
Music by Jay Kerr; lyrics And book by Barbara Kahn

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Original cast recording: Original Cast Records 2002

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Musical. - - Gay/Lesbian, musical

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Whither Thou Goest

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"Making a Scene - Contemporary Drama of Jewish American Women" published by Syracuse University Press, 1997   

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