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DAVID B LENTZ |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Born in Woburn, Massachusetts, David B. Lentz graduated from Bates College and has written professionally for more than 35 years. He has lived in Boston's Back Bay, the Garden District of New Orleans and Philadelphia's Main Line. Currently, he resides with his family in Greenwich, CT. Bloomsday was originally written as a tragicomic stage play, as an American sequel to James Joyce's Ulysses, to celebrate the Bloomsday Centenary. In addition to this stage play, Lentz has published a volume of poetry, Old Greenwich Odes, and six literary novels - For the Beauty of the Earth, AmericA, Inc., Bloomsday: Ulysses in Boston, Bourbon Street, The Day Trader and The Silver King. He has served Bates College as an Alumnus-in-Admissions, the Bates College Club, the Board of Directors of the New Orleans Ad Club, the Philadelphia Mayor's Council for Literacy, Stamford-Greenwich Literacy Volunteers of America, Healing the Children (Board), Midnight Run for New York City Homeless, Hurricane Katrina JazzAid: New Orleans (Founder): Hope + Heroes Children's Cancer Foundation, St. Baldrick's Foundation for Children's Cancer Research, Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association and St. Paul's Chapel as a Volunteer at Ground Zero. Lentz is a Member of the Academy of American Poets.
Plays by David B Lentz
AmericA Inc | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #125630 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 8 | ||
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Synopsis: | The future. The USA has become a corporation AmericA Inc. It has been divided into two divisions Bluefish and Redfish. The president brings in a Yale poet to try and clean up the Company's image | |||||
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Bloomsday | ||
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| 1st Published: | CreateSpace (April 22, 2010) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1451579680 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43359 | |||
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Genre: | tragicomic stage adaptation Tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 7 | ||
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Notes: | stage adaptation from author's new novel, Bloomsday: Ulysses in Boston | |||||
| Bloomsday is the American stage sequel to James Joyce's Ulysses, in which the American immigrant descendants of Molly Bloom (Rudy Bloom, a Boston advertising executive) and Stephen Dedalus (Dr. Thomas Dedalus, a Harvard professor) meet at the Irish wake of Tim Finnegan in South Boston. These newfound Irish brothers wander through Boston together in the hours after the wake without realizing that they are, in fact, blood relatives. As the step-brothers wander through Boston, Bloom's tragically beautiful wife awaits a tryst with her publisher on Beacon Hill. | |||||
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