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OREN SAFDIE |
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Nationality: Asian American Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Lenhoff & Lenhoff |
Oren Safdie is a playwright-in-residence at La MaMa E.T.C. and the Interim Artistic Director of the Malibu Stage Company where his off-Broadway plays PRIVATE JOKES, PUBLIC PLACES and THE LAST WORD& first debuted. Other plays produced in New York include: JEWS & JESUS, FIDDLER SUB-TERRAIN, sMOTHER, BROKEN PLACES and LA COMPAGNIE, which he developed into a 1/2 hour pilot for Castle Rock/CBS. His next play WEST BANK, UK (a musical comedy) will open at La MaMa in December 2007. As a screenwriter, he scripted the film YOU CAN THANK ME LATER starring Ellen Burstyn, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Newport Film Festival; co-wrote the script to the Israeli film SWEET & SOUR; wrote the English translation for GIBRAN, THE PROPHET; and is presently developing a film project with Ben Stiller's company, 'Red Hour Films'. Oren is also a columnist for METROPOLIS Magazine and has contributed to DWELL.
Plays by Oren Safdie
Bilbao Effect, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, NY | 16 May 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, (2010) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #114491 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | "The Bilbao Effect" became a popular term after Frank Gehry built the Guggenheim Museum in Spain, transforming the poor industrial port city of Bilbao into a must-see tourist destination. Its success spurred other cities into hiring famous architects and giving them carte blanche to design even more spectacular buildings in hopes that the formula could be repeated. In Oren Safdie's play The Bilbao Effect, Erhardt Shlaminger is a world famous architect who faces censure by the American Institute of Architects, following accusations that his urban redevelopment project for Staten Island has led to a woman's suicide. The play tackles controversial urban design issues that New Yorkers have recently encountered in Brooklyn as a result of the hotly-debated plans to redevelop the Atlantic Yards into an architecture-star mega-development. The Bilbao Effect explores whether architecture has become more of an art than a profession, and at what point the ethics of one field violate the principles of the other. | |||||
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Broken Places | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tribeca Lab, NY | 1995 | ||||
Company: | Tribeca Lab NY; Le Bijou, Montreal | |||||
| 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 | #67888 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A dark comedy about the effects that parents can have on their children's future relationships. | |||||
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Fiddler Sub-Terrain | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | La MaMa E.T.C. | |||||
| 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 | #67887 | |||
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Genre: | musical comedy Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 6 | ||
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Notes: | Composer: Ronnie Cohen. Fiddler Sub-Terrain was featured on Bravo's Arts & Minds. | |||||
Synopsis: | A contemporary satire on Fiddler On The Roof, set in the backdrop of Quebec politics. | |||||
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Jews & Jesus | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
Company: | La MaMa ETC, Malibu Stage Co | |||||
| 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 | #67885 | |||
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Genre: | musical comedy Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Oren Safdie and Ronnie Cohen | |||||
Synopsis: | Jews & Jesus satirizes the naivete of twenty- and thirty something Jews, half-Jews, Christians who date Jews, and Jews who date Christians, while still asking the question of what place religion has in this unfettered age. The story follows two young couples from North America to Jerusalem as they come to grips with their religion, in the face of their rather secular upbringing. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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La Compagnie | ||
| 1st Produced: | Alma Shapiro Centre, NY | 1996 | ||||
Company: | La MaMa E.T.C. | |||||
| 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 | #67886 | |||
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Genre: | comedy drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | La Compagnie was optioned by Castle Rock & CBS, and written into a half-hour comedy pilot script. | |||||
Synopsis: | La Compagnie is a character driven comedy, set in the garment district of Montreal. A full spectrum of charcters coming from different classes and ethnic backgrounds are bound together at a small, family run, towel manufacturer that supply mid-level stores in Canada. In this environment of minimum wage workers, slimy salesman, and penny-pinching bosses, everyone is dependent on each other. The hinge between these two worlds in Frank Casselli, a hard working company foreman who has to keep the whole thing from falling apart. | |||||
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Last Word, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre at St. Clement's, 423 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036 >>> | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #46014 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | It tells the story of Henry Grunwald, a Viennese Jew who fled the Nazis and became a successful advertising executive in New York. Now retired and determined to fulfill his dream of becoming a playwright, Henry engages the assistance of a young, opinionated NYU student who shares his passion for writing and headstrong spirit. | |||||
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Private Jokes, Public Places | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sdaart | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press & Dramatists Play Service, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30563 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama, full length Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Capturing the full character of architectural discourse, PRIVATE JOKES, PUBLIC PLACES offers a disturbing and humorous glimpse inside the contemporary world of architecture. Margaret, a young Korean-American student, presents her thesis for a public swimming pool to an all-male jury of famous architects. This simple premise is a jumping-off point for a facile examination of academia, intellectual pretension and the failure of postmodernist culture. The play asks compelling questions about the state of the male-female power struggle, fears of disrupting the status quo and ultimately the importance of challenging tradition. | |||||
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West Bank, UK | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | La MaMa ETC, in association with Malibu Stage Company | |||||
| 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 | #74082 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written and directed by Oren Safdie, music and lyrics by Ronnie Cohen | |||||
Synopsis: | about a Palestinian and an Israeli who must share a rent-controlled apartment in London's West Bank | |||||
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