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Jessica Litwak

JESSICA LITWAK

  
Nationality:    USA
email:    n/a     Website:    Click here

Literary Agent:    Susan Schulman Literary Agency  

Jessica Litwak is a theatre activist, Teacher, Playwright, Drama Therapist and Actor. Her work is geared towards bringing political and social issues to light, and working to repair the world. She has been on the full-time theatre faculty of San Francisco State University and The Theatre Academy at Los Angeles City College, heading up the Voice Department at both schools. She has also taught, voice, at Stella Adler Academy and Marymount Manhattan College, she has taught acting and playwriting at Columbia and NYU. She has worked with at risk adolescents, domestic violence survivors, women in crisis, developmentally disabled clients as well as having a private practice. Litwak's work has been published by Applause Books, Smith and Kraus, and The New York Times. As an actress, Litwak has appeared extensively in theatrical productions across the United States, a company member at The Guthrie Theatre and a member of The Actor's Studio. She received a BFA in Acting from New York University's Experimental Theatre Wing and an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University. Litwak is the founder and Artistic Director of award winning theatre company New Generation Theatre Ensemble,

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

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

         Dream Acts         Emma Goldman: Love, Anarchy And Other Affairs         Grim         My Heart Is In The East         Nobody Is Sleeping         Oddesy, The         Pirate's Lullaby, A         Postcards From Canterbury         Promised Land, The         Reincarnation         Secret Agents         Snake and the Falcon, The         Terrible Virtue         Victory Dance         War An American Dream         Wider Than The Sky
Dream Acts

Synopsis:
Imagine that you don't have a country. It doesn't matter if you believe you're American, because no one else believes you - not potential employers, not banks that issue student loans, not the government. there is no way to become legally American. You don't exist. Worse, you are hunted for deportation. You love this country, but the country does not love you back. In Dream Acts, five undocumented teens from Nigeria, Mexico, Ukraine, Korea, and Jordan face the extraordinary challenge of living ordinary lives under the radar. Each story is moving and urgent; some are funny, others are tragic, and through their experiences, we learn about facts about the DREAM Act and the secret lives lead by undocumented youth.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Mia Chung, Jessica Litwak, Chiori Miyagawa, Saviana Stanescu, Andrea Thome

1st Produced:
HERE Arts Center - Dorothy B. Williams theater
145 6th aVenue, New York, NY 10013     23 Mar 2012

Organisations:
Dream act Union

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/dream-acts   

Music:
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piece 75 min

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Emma Goldman: Love, Anarchy And Other Affairs

Emma Goldman: Love, Anarchy And Other Affairs
Leon Czlosgoz assassinates President McKinley and says he did it because he was influenced by the anarchist speeches of Emma Goldman

Notes:
part of Women Heroes: In Praise of exceptional Women

1st Produced:
Samuel Beckett Theatre, NY     1986

Organisations:
Women's Project

1st Published:
in Women Heroes: Six Short Plays from the Women's Project, ed Julia Mills, Applause Books, 1997   

Music:
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Genre:
Monologue play

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  1 male voice

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Grim

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Notes:
Based on stories by The Brothers Grimm

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Genre:
Adaptation

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My Heart Is In The East

Synopsis:
A Iraqi Muslim man and a Jewish American woman are thrown together

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Downstairs, New York     18 Jun 2017

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Nobody Is Sleeping

Nobody Is Sleeping
Emma Goldman in the Spanish Civil War

Notes:
Part of "The Emma Goldman Triology"

1st Produced:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Emma Goldman Triolgy" published by lulu.com 2016   

Music:
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Oddesy, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Based on "The Oddesy" by Homer

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Genre:
Childrens play

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Pirate's Lullaby, A

Synopsis:
It is not easy being a Pirate Queen when your mother is always there reminding you to put on your life jacket and comb your hair.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theater Off Park, New York     1997

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Postcards From Canterbury

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Based on "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer

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Genre:
Childrens play

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Promised Land, The

Synopsis:
A rabbi's wife and a partisan fighter are hiding in a forest in the Second World War

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Reincarnation

Synopsis:
A depressed receptionist has the deluxe treatment from a psychic and is transported to many previous lives

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Genre:
Drama

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Secret Agents

Synopsis:
A sister, a brother, a secret and James Bond

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Renberg Theater, Hollywood    

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Gay drama full length

Parts:
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Snake and the Falcon, The

Snake and the Falcon, The
J Edgar Hoover has Emma Goldman deported

Notes:
Part of "The Emma Goldman Triology"

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Emma Goldman Triolgy" published by lulu.com 2016   

Music:
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Terrible Virtue

Synopsis:
A history of women's reproductive rights

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Genre:
Drama

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Victory Dance

Synopsis:
Three girls trying to find a date for the Prom. Maya's will only take her if she sleeps with him afterwards. Luna is a closeted lesbian. Grace has an abusive boyfriend.

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Genre:
Monolgue play. - - Lesbian, theme/character, full length

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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War An American Dream

Synopsis:
American wars as seen through the eyes of three families

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Genre:
Youth play

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Wider Than The Sky

Synopsis:
Brain surgeons, brain patients and rhesus macaque monkeys

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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