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Jonathan Levy

JONATHAN LEVY

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Susan Schulman Literary Agency  

Born in New York. B.A. from Harvard; attended University of Rome, Italy; MA. and Ph.D. from ColumbiA. Has taught at Juilliard School of Music and University of California at Berkeley. Playwright in residence at Manhattan Theatre Club; president and co-founder of Playwrights for Children's Theatre and a member of the albee-Barr Playwrights Unit and the New Theatre Playwrights Unit. He was Fannie Hurst Visiting Professor of Theatre Arts at Brandeis University, 1979; Chairman, Dept. of Theatre Arts, SUNY, Stony Brook, 1980; Co-Chairman, Theatre for Youth Panel, National endowment for the Arts, 1979; Policy Panel, National endow-ment for the Arts, 1980. He has also written opera libretto (Boswell's Journal) and Wild Rose, fiction, verse, and criticism for the Village Voice, Harper's Bookletter, Cricket, and Bottighe Oscure. Recipient: CaPS grant; Lincoln Center Institute, Senior Fellow; Charlotte Chorpenning award, 1979.
address (in 1981): 1165 Fifth ave., New York, NY 10029
agent (in 1981): Susan Schulman, 165 West end avenue, New York, NY (212) 877-2216

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

         Arts And Letters         Charlie the Chicken         Exploratory Operation, An         Jack N's Awful Demands         Little Green Bird, The         Marco Polo         Marvellous Adventures Of Tyl         Master Class         Master Of the Blue Mineral Mines, The         Monkey Play         Old Blues         Play Of Innocence And Change, The         Pornographer's Daughter, The         Sabbatai Zevi         Shrinking Bride, The         Songs Without Words         theatre Games         Turandot         Ziskin's Revels

Arts And Letters

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Charlie the Chicken

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about Charlie, a performing chicken, and his master, Ferenc Horvath, a seedy Hungarian vaudevillian. Charlie has a brilliant, questing mind and a thirst for knowledge and experience. Horvath, who needs him as a docile stooge, offers him stuff-ed toys, tap dancing and unlimited bottled beer. an admirer pays them an unexpected visit backstage and Charlie's longings erupt, with bad consequences.

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American Shakespeare Festival    -

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Contained in: "Best Short Plays 1983" published by Chilton Book Co,    -

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Domestic Comedy One act

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Exploratory Operation, An

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Jack N's Awful Demands

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the Playbox Theatre, NYC    -

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Little Green Bird, The

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adapted from the Italian of Carlo Gozzi

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the Young Hampton Players, Southampton, NY    -

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adaptation

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Marco Polo

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everyone is familiar with the tale of Marco Polo and his epic journey into the remote and exotic kingdom of Kublai Khan. But here the story is given extra dimension through elements of court intrigue, the attraction between the hero and the Khan's lovely daughter, and the greedy machinations of Marco's Father and uncle. Using mime, magic and staging of imaginative simplicity, the play builds steadily in suspense until its exciting conclusion, when the villain is punished and virtue rewarded at last.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Fantasy for Children Youth audiences

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Male:  10            Female:  1            Other:  -

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National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 40/3

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Marvellous Adventures Of Tyl

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loosely based on the Tyl eulenspiegel legend. In a series of transformations, the play takes the hero from birth to mock death, by way of a series of wild, instructive adventures

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Triangle Theatre, NYC    -

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Childrens, full length Youth audience

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Master Class

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an ancient Russian diva, reduced to giving elementary classes, takes a young voice student through Schubert's Death and the Maiden. In the harrowing process, she gives the student a glimpse of what a serious life in art is about, and intimations of mortality.

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play One act

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Master Of the Blue Mineral Mines, The

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Monkey Play

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Old Blues

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Impossible Ragtime Theatre, NYC    -

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Play Of Innocence And Change, The

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the Children's Theatre of the 92nd Street YMHa, NYC    -

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Pornographer's Daughter, The

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Sabbatai Zevi

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Shrinking Bride, The

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music by William Bolcom

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Mercury Theater, NY    1971

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Musical Play Musical

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Songs Without Words

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theatre Games

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Turandot

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adapted from the Italian of Carlo Gozzi

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adaptation

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Ziskin's Revels

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