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SIMON LEVY |
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Literary Agent: Abrams Artists Agency UK representative Diamond Management |
Simon Levy is the Producing Director/Dramaturg for the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles where he's been a resident playwright, director, and producer since 1993. His stage adaptation of "The Great Gatsby," which completes his Fitzgerald Trilogy, will inaugurate the Guthrie Theater's new $125M theatre complex in July, 2006 in Minneapolis; it's also been optioned for a commerical production. "The Last Tycoon," which he also directed, won 5 Back Stage West/Drama-Logue awards including Best Adaptation and Best Direction, and was nominated for the prestigious Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Ted Schmitt Award for Original Play. "Tender is the Night," which he also directed, won the PEN USA Literary Award in Drama, and 7 Drama-Logue awards including Best Production and Direction. His most recent projects include: creating a theatre piece from Eliot Weinberger's celebrated article, "What I Heard About Iraq" which has received readings/productions all over the world; a new translation/adaptation of Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People: A Modern Version for America", scheduled for production in 2007; and a new play about Nobel Laureate, Andrei Sakharov. He teaches Playwriting at UCLA Extension, is a site evaluator for both the National Endowment for the Arts and California Arts Council, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, the National New Plays Network, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, PEN USA, and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, as well as a host of political, environmental, and humanitarian advocacy groups.
Plays by Simon Levy
Act Of Betrayal | ||
| 1st Produced: | Staged Reading: Blue Heron Theatre, New York | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48861 | |||
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Genre: | full length drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Semi-Finalist, 2001 InterAct Theatre's Showcase of New Plays; Semi-Finalist, 1999 Northwest Regional New Plays Conference; Honorable Mention, Writer's Digest 2002 Competition | |||||
Synopsis: | Benedict Arnold, a military genius, saves the American Revolution and becomes the Hero of Saratoga. But he is envied and hated by Joseph Reed, President of Pennsylvania, who plots Benedict's downfall, forcing Benedict to betray everything he believes in and becoming the most hated man in American history. | |||||
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Addams Family, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | One Act Theatre Company, San Francisco | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48874 | |||
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Genre: | - comedy Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | San Francisco Chronicle "Bernie" Awards for Best Ensemble and Design | |||||
Synopsis: | Episodes of the beloved TV series adapted for the stage, with "commercial breaks." | |||||
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Beethovens, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dynarski Theatre, Los Angeles | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48875 | |||
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Genre: | full length drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | co-written with Dr. Frederick W. Kurth; Winner 2 Drama-Logue Awards (including Original Writing); Nominated, PEN West Literary Award for Drama | |||||
Synopsis: | Beethoven, the rock star of his generation, is the most celebrated musical genius of his time. But his sexual obsession for his sister-in-law, Johanna von Beethoven (the real Immortal Beloved), drags his family into terrible tragedy even while he creates his greatest music. | |||||
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Beetlejuice' Graveyard | ||
| 1st Produced: | Universal Studios Hollywood | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48876 | |||
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Genre: | musical comedy revue Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | co-created with Peter Giordano for Universal Studios Theme Park | |||||
Synopsis: | beloved Hollywood monsters rock out! | |||||
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Betrayed | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48877 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | How America betrayed Benedict Arnold | |||||
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Cry Of The Giraffe | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48878 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A lonely man's struggle with temptations of pedophilia | |||||
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Darling, Wendy | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48879 | |||
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Genre: | full-length musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | (commissioned: treatment for a new Peter Pan musical) | |||||
Synopsis: | A big Broadway-style musical of the Peter Pan story told from Wendy's POV. | |||||
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Enemy Of The People, An: A Modern Version For America | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48880 | |||
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Genre: | full-length translation/adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 2b | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A new translation/adaptation in a modern version for America of Ibsen's classic about how one man stands up for his convictions even though he's labeled "an enemy of the people." | |||||
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Great Gatsby, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48881 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | saxophone player | |||||
Notes: | Fitzgerald's Jazz Age masterpiece will be brought to Guthrie audiences through the vision of award-winning playwright Simon Levy. Carefully constructing scenes both from the novel's dialogue and its narration, Levy's version is wisely faithful to the original while transforming the book's sharply observed details and images into a wonderfully vivid theatrical landscape. Moving the story's action fluidly from Gatsby's mansion in West Egg to New York City and into the past, Levy's script paints a swirling Roaring Twenties world that crackles with the vibrancy of Fitzgerald's voice. The play stylishly incorporates jazz music and dance of the era. | |||||
Synopsis: | The official stage adaptation, sanctioned by the Fitzgerald Estate, of F. Scott Fitzgerald's acclaimed novel. | |||||
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Jazz Crazy | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48882 | |||
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Genre: | full-length musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 2 African/American dancer/singers; 2 Causcasian dancer/singers; Band | |||||
Notes: | Treatment developed for and with Mark Brymer | |||||
Synopsis: | The fictional story of Bebe Baxter - one of the great Jazz/Blues singers of the 20's and 30's. The red hot mama of the Southern jazz club circuit. Both talented and wise, she is a beacon for all who are jazz crazy. But, she walked away from fame. . . refusing to be recorded. . . or interviewed. Her reasons for doing so are the mystery that fuel this story. | |||||
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Last Tycoon, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48883 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner, 5 Back Stage West/Drama-Logue Awards (including Best Adaptation, Best Direction); Nominated for the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle "Ted Schmitt" Award For Original Play; Winner Beverly Press "Best of 1998"; Winner, Frontiers Mag "Best of 1998"; | |||||
Synopsis: | Official stage adaptation, approved by the Fitzgerald Estate, of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece about the movie industry | |||||
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Love Eternal | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48884 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Finalist, 1999 West Coast Ten-Minute Play Contest | |||||
Synopsis: | The greatest love story since Romeo and Juliet. A time of giants and Celtic magic. A time of hate between two kingdoms. A time of honor and infidelity. The romance of Tristan and Iseult. He of England. She of Ireland. Bound by destiny. . . and a love that could never die. | |||||
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Man For Man | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48885 | |||
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Genre: | full-length comedy/drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | (inspired by "The Men's Club" by Leonard Michaels) | |||||
Synopsis: | Can six men, unified in basic sympathy, create a Men's Club based on the same principles of women's support groups? Can they find the kind of camaraderie, open honesty, and vulnerability they hunger for? These men try. One night. Baring all. But then nature takes over and they begin behaving as only men do. One of them, however, Harold Canterbury, the only African American among the group, struggles to rise above the inevitable self-loathing, accusations, and violence to find that part of himself that allows him to love again. | |||||
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Noble Peace, A | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48886 | |||
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Genre: | Solo Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | One-man show about Andrei Sakharov, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Soviet dissident, and father of the Soviet H-bomb | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Pink Skin | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48887 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Clay, naked, pink skin glowing in the gloom of a windowless room, plays with his derringer pistols. Sometimes life just isn't worth it. | |||||
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Sessions With A Dead Poet | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48888 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | possibly a 3rd character | |||||
Notes: | inspired by The book, HOWLING WITH SAKUTARO, by Dr. Frederick W. Kurth. Honorable Mention, 2005 Writer's Digest Writing Competition | |||||
Synopsis: | The poetry and life of the father of modern Japanese poetry, Hagiwara Sakutaro. An experiment in form: A 21st century psychoanalyst holds sessions with the dead poet. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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She-Who-Is-Made-Of-Clay | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cleveland Public Theatre | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Alabama Literary Review ; Black Hat Press; American Writing: A Magazine, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48889 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Produced: Audio Play, Mind's Ear, 2003; Broadcast: WFHB, Indiana, 2002; Broadcast: WBAI-FM, NY, 2000; Produced: Rites & Reason Theatre, Brown University; Produced: Cleveland Public Theatre. Top 10 Finalist, 2004 Shenandoah International Playwrights Compet | |||||
Synopsis: | She-Who-Is-Made-of-Clay is the last of the Yokuts Indians - and a homosexual (or what we would call a homosexual). In his culture she is a berdache, third gender, a revered shaman who straddles the world between man and woman. Only he can bury the dead of her people; and on this, his last day, she tells the story of her people as he readies the funeral bier that will consume her life. | |||||
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Tender Is The Night | ||
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| 1st Published: | Modern American Literature Series, Prestige Books, Modern American Literature Series, Prestige Books | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48890 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Winner, 1996 PEN West Literary Award for Drama; Winner 7 Drama-Logue Awards (including Best Production); Winner Back Stage West "Garland" Award for Best Production 1995; Winner "Best of 7 Productions" 1995 L.A. Village View; Nominated for 2 1995 Theatre L | |||||
Synopsis: | The official stage adaptation, approved by the Fitzgerald Estate, of F. Scott Fitzgerald's acclaimed novel about the romance of Dick and Nicole Diver. | |||||
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Vivian On The White Wall | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48891 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Finalist, Heideman Award, Actors Theatre of Louisville | |||||
Synopsis: | On a day unlike any other, Clay sits in his room in his underwear, sucking down cigarettes, when he's visited by the vision of a dead acquaintance who materializes in his room and gives him the greatest gift of all - the gift of life. | |||||
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Voice | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48892 | |||
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Genre: | full-length comedy/drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | voice | |||||
Notes: | co-written with Fred Kurth. Honorable Mention, Writer's Digest 2000 Competition | |||||
Synopsis: | Patsy, a "good" minister's wife, learns to listen to her own Voice (literally), and drags her husband kicking and screaming back into a sexually-balanced relationship. | |||||
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What I Heard About Iraq (A Cry for 5 Voices) | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51966 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | an adaptation of Eliot Weinberger's article, "What I Heard About Iraq". The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has nominated WHAT I HEARD ABOUT IRAQ for Best Adaptation | |||||
Synopsis: | An anti-war theatre piece adapted from Eliot Weinberger's acclaimed article, "What I Heard About Iraq." | |||||
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