Israel Horovitz
ISRAEL HOROVITZ's plays have been translated and performed in as many as 30 languages, worldwide. Best known plays include Line (now in 33rd year, Off Broadway), The Indian Wants The Bronx, Rats, Morning, The Primary English Class, Hopscotch, The 75th, The Widow's Blind Date, The Wakefield Plays (a 9-play cycle), Today I Am A Fountain Pen, Park Your Car In Harvard Yard (which Horovitz has recently adapted for a film starring Julianne Moore and is now being revived on stage in Paris, and in Prague), North Shore Fish, Fighting Over Beverley, Lebensraum (a success in Paris this past season, will have its first-ever German production in Spring, 2007, recently revived at Theatre Row in NYC), and My Old Lady (performed last spring in Paris at the Comédie Française, was a critical and popular success in Montréal this season; premieres in Prague in September, 2007). Newer plays include Free Gift, Stations of the Cross, One Under, 50 Years of Caddieing, Speaking Well of the Dead, Unexpected Tenderness, Fast Hands, Security, A Mother's Love, Sins of the Mother, New Shorts -- a collection of new short plays including The Fat Guy Gets the Girl, Cat-Lady, Inconsolable, Beirut Rocks (EST Marathon, June, 2007), The Bridal Dance, The Audition Play, Affection in Time, The Race Play, The Hotel Play all produced in January, 2007, at Theatre Row), Compromise (produced in Sante Fe in June, 2007), and The Secret of Mme. Bonnard's Bath, produced in NYC in February, 2007, at Theatre Row. Screenplays include Author! Author!, The Strawberry Statement (Prix du Jury, Cannes Film Festival), Sunshine (European Academy Award - Best Screenplay), and EMMY-nominated James Dean. Horovitz wrote, directed and performed the award-winning documentary 3 Weeks After Paradise, shown in the USA on Bravo. He has recently completed two new screenplays, The Little Shock and The Perfect Marriage, both of which he will direct. He has also written Eager to Die, a political thriller, and Security, My Old Lady, and The Secret of Mme Bonnard's Bath, all based upon his stage-plays. Awards include the OBIE (twice), the Prix de Plaisir du Théâtre, The Prix Italia (for radio plays), The EMMY, The Sony Radio Academy Award (for Man In Snow),The Writers Guild of Canada Best Screenwriter Award, The Christopher Award, the Drama Desk Award (twice), an Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Elliot Norton Prize, a Lifetime Achievement Award from B'Nai Brith, the Literature Prize of Washington College, an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Salem (Massachusetts) State College, Boston Public Library's Literary Lights Award, the Walker Hancock Prize, and many others. Mr. Horovitz is Founding Artistic Director of Gloucester Stage, and of the New York Playwrights Lab. He is the father of film-producer Rachael Horovitz, TV producer/director Matthew Horovitz, Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz, Hannah Horovitz (student at Vassar College) and Oliver Horovitz (student at Harvard College). He has four unemployed grandchildren. For the past 25 years, he has been married to Gillian Adams-Horovitz, former British National Marathon Champion and Record holder, former USA Track & Field (Masters) Marathon Champion. The Horovitz family divides its time among homes in Gloucester, NYC's Greenwich Village, and London's Dulwich Village. Mr. Horovitz teaches screenwriting at Columbia University, and at La Fémis (Paris). Horovitz visits France, frequently, where he often directs French-language productions of his plays. He is the most-produced American playwright in French theatre history. Bio as of October, 2007. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Working in the Theatre (video) Playwright and Director - September, 1986 - Watch now. Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)