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Susan Yankowitz

SUSAN YANKOWITZ

  (1941 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Robert A Freedman Dramatic Agency  

Susan Yankowitz is a playwright, novelist and librettist. Her best-known plays include PHAEDRA IN DELIRIUM, TERMINAL1969, TERMINAL 1996, (collaborations with Joseph Chaikin's Open Theatre), A KNIFE IN the HEART, and NIGHT SKY, which has been performed throughout the U.S. and in translations world wide. In music Theatre, she is bookwriter/lyricist for TRUE ROMANCES with Elmer Bernstein, SLAIN IN the SPIRIT with Taj Mahal and CHeRI with Michael DellairA. She was a 2006 resident artist at HERE with her mixed-media play, the LUDICROUS TRIAL OF MR. P. Her work has been honored by the NEA, Guggenheim, Rockefeller and NYFA foundations, among others.

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

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         Acts of Love         Alarms         America Piece         Baby         Basics         Boxes         Cage, The         Ha-Ha Play, The         Knife in the Heart, A         Lamb, The         Mukhtaran Mai (Pakistan)         Night Sky         Nightmare         Phaedra in Delirium         Positions         Qui Est Anna Marks? (Who Done It?)         Revenge, The         Seven         Slaughterhouse Play         Still Life         Terminal         That Old Rock-a-bye         Tragical-Comical Trial of Madame P and Other 4-Legged and Winged Creatures, The         Transplant         True Romances         Under the Skin         Wicked Woman Revue         Wooden Nickels
Acts of Love

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Atlanta     1973

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Alarms

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Monstrous Regiment

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Contained in: "Female Voices" published by Playwrights Press 1987   

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America Piece

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written with Provisional theatre

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Los Angeles     1974

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Baby

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New York     1983

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Original story

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Basics

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in Tabula Rasa

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New York     1972

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Boxes

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New York     1972

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in "Playwrights for Tomorrow II", University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1973   

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Cage, The

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New York     1965

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Ha-Ha Play, The

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New York     1970

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in Scripts 10", New York, October, 1972   

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Knife in the Heart, A

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Lamb, The

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New York     1970

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Mukhtaran Mai (Pakistan)

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part of Journeys is A series of stirring monologues from courageous women Around the world engaged in the dangerous struggle for human rights. Each of these remarkable And heroic leaders tells An inspiring story of commitment.

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Vital Voices Global Partnership

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Night Sky

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Night Sky explores what the noted author and physicist Steven Hawking has called the two remaining mysteries-the brain and the cosmos-as the play looks at what happens to a bright, articulate astronomer, her family and her career when she is struck by a car and loses her ability to speak conventionally, a condition known as aphasia. As she is left to express herself in an alternately funny, poetic, confusing and profound hodgepodge of words, astronomer Anna, her daughter, fianciż˝, and colleagues face uncommon challenges of the mind and spirit as they discover new ways to communicate, and what it really means to listen. Night Sky is inspired by and dedicated to the memory of the late actor, director, playwright and founder of the Open theatre, Joseph Chaikin, himself affected with aphasia following a stroke in 1984. Having recovered sufficiently to continue writing, directing and performing until his death in 2003, Mr. Chaikin commissioned Ms. Yankowitz to write a play that dealt with aphasia. Night Sky is that play

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1st Produced:
Judith Anderson Theatre, NY     1991

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Women's Project

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Nightmare

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New Haven, Connecticut     1967

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Phaedra in Delirium

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Classic Stage Company     1998

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Women's Project

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Positions

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in Up

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New York     1972

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Qui Est Anna Marks? (Who Done It?)

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Paris     1978

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Revenge, The

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Seven

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A collaboration of seven award-winning women playwrights, SEVEN is based on personal interviews with seven women leaders of the Vital Voices Global Partnership network who have triumphed over huge obstacles to create major changes in human rights in their home countries. In the seven interwoven stories we see the commonality of challenge and of bravery, and in the individual monologues that follow, we experience each fascinating whole true story.

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written by Paula Cizmar, Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth Margraff, Anna Deavere Smith And Susan Yankowitz

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Dramatists Play Service, NY (2009)   

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Slaughterhouse Play

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New York     1971

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in "New American Plays 4", Hill and Wang, New York, 1971   

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Still Life

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New York     1977

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Terminal

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A look at death. the piece starts with the cast chanting the word "death" over and over. there is a portrayal of embalming. the dying imagine their coming Judgement

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1st Produced:
New York     1969

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Open Theatre

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in "Three Works by the Open theatre", Drama Book Specialists, New York, 1974   

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That Old Rock-a-bye

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Cooper Square Theatre, New York     1968

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Tragical-Comical Trial of Madame P and Other 4-Legged and Winged Creatures, The

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This provocative work utilizes actors, puppets, songs, animation and interactive video to relate actual cases chronicled in legal textbooks like the Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals (1906) and the media, ones in which a veritable Ark's-worth of species, from mammals to insects, were prosecuted for vandalism, bestiality and other "crimes against humankind."
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Gerald W. Lynch At John Jay College, NY     29 Nov 2010

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Transplant

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Omaha     1971

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True Romances

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music by Elmer Bernstein

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Los Angeles     1977

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Under the Skin

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Wicked Woman Revue

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New York     1973

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Monologues for

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Wooden Nickels

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