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John Susman is an American playwright, Theatre director, screenwriter, and film director He received the Uprising Playwright's Award for his play Tiger Treadwell Takes Tinseltown, produced by the Los Angeles Theatre Unit. As a director, he has staged many plays including Harold Pinter’s The Lover at the Court Studio Theatre at the University of Chicago.〔”The Internet Movie Database” (Biography )〕 In the 1980s, he worked at Steppenwolf Theatre as their first literary manager in addition to dramaturg and assistant director on many Steppenwolf productions. At Chicago’s Northlight Theatre he ran the FDG/CBS New Plays Program to develop new plays funded by CBS and administered by the Foundation of the Dramatists Guild. Fluent in Spanish, he translated into English ''Bajarse al Moro'' (Making the Moroccan Run) by José Luis Alonso de Santos. In 1990, his play ''Tiger Treadwell Takes Tinseltown'' was produced at the Ventura Court Theatre by the ''L.A. Theater Unit'' in Los Angeles.〔"Los Angeles Times" (Stage Review, February 22, 1990, Robert Koehler )〕 In 2000, he wrote the play ''Nelson and Simone'' that was produced at Chicago’s Live Bait Theater directed by Richard Cotovsky 〔”Richard Cotovsky” (Other works )〕 starring Gary Houston and Rebecca Covey. The play dramatizes the love affair between Chicago literary giant Nelson Algren and French existentialist Simone de Beauvoir.〔”Live Bait Theater” (Production History )〕 In 2003, his play Cafe Society was staged in Oak Park, Illinois at The Circle Theatre's New Plays Festival.〔"Oak Park Journal" (Circle Theatre New Plays Festival )〕 In 2007, he wrote, directed, and produced the comedy short ''Making the Man''〔”The Internet Movie Database” (IMDb Making the Man (2007) )〕 which has screened at over twenty film festivals in the US, Europe and Japan and had its commercial release on the DVD ''Best Of 16th Raindance Film Festival Shorts.'' 〔”Amazon.com” (Best Of 16th Raindance Film Festival Shorts DVD, 2009 )〕 His short story ''A California Seder'' (2012) was published at the online showcase JewishFiction.net 〔”JewishFiction.net” (''A California Seder'' John Susman (2012) )〕 A short story, ''The Rabbi's Sermon,'' (2014) was published in Poetica Magazine.〔”Poetica Magazine” (''The Rabbi's Sermon'' John Susman (2014) )〕 ==Awards and honors== *Heideman Award *Illinois Arts Council *Illinois/Chicago Screenwriting Competition *Nicholl Fellowship *Uprising Playwright’s Award 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Susman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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