| 词条 | Willy Holtzman |
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|image = |imagesize = 150px | | name = William Scott Holtzman | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = June 1951 | birth_place = St. Louis, MO | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Playwright | nationality = United States | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | influences = | influenced = | signature = | website = }} Willy Holtzman (born 1952) is an American playwright and screenwriter, often focusing on theatrical representations of actual historical events. Holtzman has received, two Pulitzer Prize nominations, a Humanitas Prize, a Writers Guild Award, a Peabody Award, as well as an HBO Award at the National Playwrights Conference. Personal lifeWilly Holtzman was born and raised as the second of three children in St. Louis, Missouri. Holtzman moved to Middletown, Connecticut in 1969 to attend Wesleyan University, where he majored in American Studies. After graduation, he moved to Wilton, Connecticut, where he lives with his wife, Sylvia Shepard. CareerMany of Holtzman's plays have been developed through the PlayPenn New Play Conference. Holtzman's plays have been produced in New York at Primary Stages Theater, Theatre for a New Audience, and the Working Theater. He has been produced regionally at the Long Wharf Theatre, City Theatre, People's Light and Theatre Company, Baltimore Center Stage, Portland Stage Company,[1][2] the Alliance Theatre, Geva Theatre, the Cleveland Play House, Berkshire Theatre Festival, The Colony Theatre, and Northlight Theatre. In 2007 he helped Bonnie Dickinson and her Wilton High School Theatre Arts students create Voices in Conflict, a play about returning Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans which ran at the Public Theater, the Vineyard Theatre and the Culture Project. In his 2011 work The Morini Strad, a play inspired by a true story that rocked the classical music world, Holtzman dramatizes the concert violinist Erica Morini's hiring of an unassuming violin maker to restore her legendary Stradivarius.[3][4] He taught as a visiting artist at Bronx Regional High School in the South Bronx, 1987–89, and was Resident Playwright at Juilliard School, 1990-92. He has worked with the 52d Street Project in New York's Hell's Kitchen and on the Navajo Reservation. Holtzman is a former member of New Dramatists and now serves on its board of directors. He is also on the board of Harlem Stage Company. Writing creditsPlays:
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References1. ^http://www.portlandstage.org/Event-43.html *2. ^http://www.portlandstage.org/Page.201.The+Morini+Strad 3. ^Morini Strad Dazzles Theater Goer 4. ^Willy Holtzman On Tap For 2011-2012 at Primary Stages External links
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