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Ari Roth

ARI ROTH

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Paradigm  

Ari Roth is an American director, producer and playwright. Having served as the Artistic Diretctor of Theater J at the Washington, D. C. Jewish Community Center, he is currently the Artistic Director of the Mosaic Theater Company of DC. His plays include Andy and the Shadows, Born Guilty, Goodnight Irene, Great White Undulating Orb in the Bed Between Us, Life in RefUSAl, Love and Yearning in the Not-For-Profits, Oh, The Innocents, Peter And the Wolf (And Me), Prelude To A Crisis and The Seagull on 16th Street.

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

         Andy and the Shadows         Born Guilty         Goodnight Irene         Great White Undulating Orb In the Bed Between Us         Life in RefUSAl         Love and Yearning In the Not-For-Profits         Oh, The Innocents         Peter And the Wolf (And Me)         Prelude To A Crisis         Seagull on 16th Street, The
Andy and the Shadows

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Award-winning playwright and theater J artistic director Ari Roth brings a uniquely Jewish family comedy to the Goldman theater. the son of two Holocaust survivors, the engaged Andy Glickstein feels he doesn't deserve to get married since he hasn't suffered enough in his life. Andy's incessant search for his duende -- the Spanish expression of soulfulness and tragic ecstasy -- compels him to film a movie detailing his mother's experiences and his father's Zionist heroism, but to no avail. Winner of the Streisand Award for Playwriting, Andy and the Shadows is a compelling original comedy by the author of Born Guilty and Love and Yearning in the Not-for-Profits.
- http://www.theatreindc.com

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comedy

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Born Guilty

Synopsis:
based on harrowing testimonies culled from interviews with children of Nazis and SS officials, what did they know of their parents war time deeds?

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book by Peter Sichrovsky

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Samuel French, NY, 1994   

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Adaptation

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Goodnight Irene

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Ethan Goodman is the new editor of "Repair" a journal for urban healing. His older brother is determined to unravel a number of myths they grew up with - no matter what the cost

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Great White Undulating Orb In the Bed Between Us

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Is the online world better than your real world?

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Source Festival Of Ten Minute Plays, Washington D C     2008

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Life in RefUSAl

Synopsis:
Alison a lapsed Jewish woman travels to Russia to observe the rise of Glasnost and Perestroika. She meets a Jewish refusnik - a rocket scientist who has been refused leave to quit the USSR and also to have a life saving operation. they meet again ten years later when he has made it to the US. And again after his death

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Samuel French Inc, New York   

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Drama

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Love and Yearning In the Not-For-Profits

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Contained in "HB Playwrights Short Play Festival: the Museum Plays" published by Smith and Kraus,    

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Oh, The Innocents

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Betsy sings, Jeremy plays and Josh watches in this play about love, lies and piano teaching

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Samuel French Inc, New York, 1996   

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Peter And the Wolf (And Me)

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Prelude To A Crisis

Synopsis:
A traveling teacher up for reappointment becomes obsessed by a student's "glistening brown lip-gloss" and, for the first time in his marriage and career, contemplates giving into temptation. She invites herself up to his hotel room, ostensibly in need of special instruction, and brings along her lap-top. He presses her cursor. Together they scroll through her incendiary new story as the flirtation of earlier office-hour banter gives way to sobering reality when the student becomes the bearer of some most destabilizing news. She leaves. He knows he has a crisis to report home to his wife.

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E.S.T.     1998

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    

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Genre:
Short Play One Act

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Seagull on 16th Street, The

Synopsis:
Youth is envied, challenged and mortally wounded in this tale by the great Russian master. Inspired by Vanya on 42nd Street, our own 16th Street theater and the dynamic clash between spiritual yearning and our artistic ambitions provides the stage for a journey back to the Russian countryside in this tale of artistic conflict, love, loss, jealousy and lots of laughs.

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Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov. Adapted by Ari Roth from A translation by Carol Rocamora

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Theater J - Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theatre, Washington Dc     2009

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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