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SOPHIA MURASHKOVSKY  

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Playwright Sophia Murashkovsky emigrated with her parents from Russia twenty five years ago. She received her MFA at NYU. Writing under the name of Sophia Romma, she is author of the film "Poor Liza," directed by Slava Tsukerman ("Liquid Sky") starring Ben Gazzara, Lee Grant and Barbara Babulova. The film adapts a classic Russian story by Nikolai Karamzin about a beautiful peasant girl who is seduced and forsaken by a young nobleman. "Poor Liza" won the Grand Prix Garnet Bracelet for best screenplay at the Gatchena Literature and Film Festival in St. Petersburg. Her plays are all written in a genre which she has labeled Drama Phantasma in Verse. It is characterized by a phantasmagorical lyricism coupled with satire. While her earlier plays were completely invented, "Shoot Them in the Cornfields!" is somewhat nonfictional, as it is inspired by the actual lives of her grandparents, upon whom the characters of Yelena and Mikhail Levin are based. In the 1940s and 50s, while mentally retarded Soviet citizens were being secretly executed in a government program of ethnic cleansing, the Levins provided livelihoods for retarded citizens as workers in their underwear factory. It was a grand entrepreneurial idea in a country which could accept neither a capitalist nor a Jew. For the crime of entrepreneurship, her grandfather served ten years in Butirka and her grandmother served two. She has produced the short narrative films "Commercial America in the 90s" and "The Frozen Zone." Her book of poetry, "God and My Good," was published by the Gorky Literary Institute and is now up for a literary award for Poetry of the Year. She has also recently published a collection of nine short stories entitled, "Blue Devils." She is currently defending her Ph.D. dissertation at the prestigious Gorky Institute of Literature in Moscow. Meanwhile, she teaches American Literature at Touro College, runs a playwriting and screenwriting workshop at the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center and occasionally instructs screenwriting at the New York Film Academy.

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

Coyote, Take Me There!     Defenses Of Prague     Language of the Gods, The     Lenin Bound     Love, in the Eyes of Hope, Dies Last     Shoot Them in the Cornfields!