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Jon Robin Baitz

JON ROBIN BAITZ

  (1961 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Creative Artists Agency CA  

Jon Robin Baitz is the author of a number of plays including the Substance of Fire, a Fair Country, Ten Unknowns, Mizlansky/Zilinsky, Three Hotels, and the Paris Letter. He is a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Drama Desk winner, HumAnitas winner, a Guggenheim and an Nea Fellow. Mr. Baitz created the aBC Drama Brothers and Sisters,and has written for West Wing. He also adapted his play the Substance of Fire for the screen, as well as the screenplay for the al Pacino movie, People I Know. He is currently writing and producing a mini-series for HBO, entitled Cheney's War, about the selling of the Iraq Invasion by the Bush administration. He is a founding member of Naked angels Theatre company, and on the faculty of the New School's graduate Drama division.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Chinese Friends         Coq Au Vin         Dutch Landscape         End Of the Day, The         Fair Country, A         Film Society, The         Four Monologues         Hedda Gabler         It Changes Every Year         Mizlansky/Zilinsky Or "Schmucks"         My Beautiful Goddamn City         Other Desert Cities         Paris Letter, The         Substance Of Fire, The         Ten Unknowns         Three Hotels         Wendy and the Lost Boys

Chinese Friends

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1st Produced:
Playwrights Horizons, New York    30 Apr 2004

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Coq Au Vin

Coq Au Vin
actors Terry and Michael have been out of work for a long time. they get a job playing chickens at a country fair but there is something sinister going on

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1st Produced:
New York    06 Dec 1991

Organisations:
Naked angels

1st Published:
Contained in: "Naked angels Issues Projects: the Collected Plays" published by Playscripts Inc   978-0981909912

Music:
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Genre:
8-10 min Comedy/

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Dutch Landscape

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1st Produced:
Los Angeles    1989

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1st Published:
Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1987   -

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End Of the Day, The

End Of the Day, The
expatriate British doctor entangled in the health care system, the mob, disposable wives and disillusioned lefties

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1st Produced:
Seattle    1990

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1st Published:
in "the Substance of Fire and Other Plays", Nick Hern Books, London,    978-1559360517

Music:
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Genre:
Dramatic Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Fair Country, A

Synopsis:
It is 1987 and Gil Burgess, a young archeologist, is alone in the Mexican jungle at dusk when his estranged mother, Patrice, suddenly arrives. the rift between them goes back to 1977 when Gil was a teenager living with his parents in Durban, South Africa. We go back to Durban where Harry, Gil's father, is a U.S. Information Officer. the political situation in South Africa takes a huge toll on his family, and Harry is desperate to get a new post. Patrice is close to having a nervous breakdown, and Gil bears the brunt of her condition since Harry travels frequently. Things come to a head when Gil's older brother, alec, a budding radical and Columbia Journalism major, comes for a visit. When he arrives, Harry is offered a cushy cultural affairs job in the Hague if he'll provide his superior with a list of alec's friends in the anti-apartheid underground. Harry refuses, but as tensions threaten to tear his family apart he reconsiders. Two years later, the Burgesses have moved to the Hague, but their problems foll

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1st Produced:
Mitzi Newhouse Theater, New York    Feb 1996

Organisations:
Steppenwolf

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1997   -

Music:
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Genre:
Political

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Film Society, The

Film Society, The
set in 1970 and using a South African private school modelled on the British education system shows a microcosm for the South Africa of the time. the (unseen) Zulu servant of Terry Sinclai is arrested for being gay and Terry has to bail him out.

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1st Produced:
Los Angeles Actors' Theatre, Los Angeles    1987

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1st Published:
in "the Substance of Fire and Other Plays", Nick Hern Books, London,    978-1559360517

Music:
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Genre:
Dramatic Comedy. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Four Monologues

Synopsis:
From censorship and homosexuality to city versus country and public Arts funding,Four Monologues tackles some of the toughest issues in our contemporary cultural battles. For these four short, inspired pieces for men and women, young and old, gay and straight, it's not only a question of values, but of finding common ground.

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1st Produced:
Naked Angels (New York, NY, United States)    1990

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
8-10 min Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  2 males, 2 females

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Hedda Gabler

Synopsis:
She's no longer the chilly, inscrutable manipulator but a woman with, as the New York Times put it, "a context and a persuasive raison d'etre." Ibsen's classic play here emerges with renewed vitality and newfound Dramatic resonance

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Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:
Geffen Playhouse Main Stage, Los Angeles    16 Mar 1999

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    978-0822218616

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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It Changes Every Year

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1st Produced:
One Act Festival, Silver Spring Stage, Silver Spring, Md    03 Sep 2004

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Mizlansky/Zilinsky Or "Schmucks"

Synopsis:
Set in the ever-so-sleek and slick Hollywood of the '80s, this dizzily funny, yet jarringly sober play revolves around the manic film producer Davis Mizlansky who is on the brink of being done in by the IRS. Desperate to save himself, and morals be damned (if he ever had any to begin with), he comes up with a scheme he's sure will save the day-and might just make him some money to boot. In order to make his idea work, he must convince his former partner, Sam Zilinsky, to come on board with the businessman who can make the deal to produce celebrity-narrated Bible stories for children. Mizlansky and Zilinsky square off and chaos ensues as Zilinsky confronts Mizlansky with the wreck his life has become. Is the offer of selling shares in a phony tax shelter a form of redemption? Mizlansky thinks it is. they get away with it, but Zilinsky knows it is a deeper form of betrayal.

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aka Schmucks

1st Produced:
Los Angeles    1985

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1st Published:
Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1998   -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  1            Other:  -

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My Beautiful Goddamn City

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Patty has been away from New York for some time. She meets her sister Maggie and tells her that she is moving to France permanently. 9/11 and the 2004 election being reasons   -

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Genre:
Drama

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Other Desert Cities

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In Other Desert Cities, Brooke Wyeth, a once promising novelist, returns home after a six year absence to celebrate Christmas in Palm Springs with her parents, former members of the Reagan inner circle, her brother, and her aunt. When Brooke announces that she is about to publish a memoir focusing on an explosive chapter in the family's history, the holiday reunion is thrown into turmoil and the Wyeths are both bound together and torn apart as they struggle to come to terms with their past.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Mitzi Newhouse theater
150 West 65th Street, New York, NY 10023    13 Jan 2011

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    978-0822226055

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Paris Letter, The

Synopsis:
Starting in 1962 and going on to 2002 the play tells the story of two friends Sandy and anton, who at one point were lovers. anton works at a trendy restaurant with Katie. Sandy in denial about his homosexuality marries Katie. Meanwhile Sandy's busin

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1st Produced:
Laura Pels Theatre, Off Broadway, NY    2005

Organisations:
Roundabout Theatre Company

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  doubling

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Substance Of Fire, The

Substance Of Fire, The
children oust Father from control of family owned publishing house and then try to have him committed

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1st Produced:
Playwrights Horizon, New York    Apr 1991

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "the Substance of Fire and Other Plays", Nick Hern Books, London,    978-1559360517

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Ten Unknowns

Synopsis:
Decades earlier, Malcolm Raphelson, an iconoclastic American painter in his seventies, had been included in a group exhibition- "Ten Unknowns"-of up-and-coming artists to watch, but he quickly faded into obscurity after he turned his back on the New York art world which had dismissed his realistic style in favor of abstract expressionism. For the last thirty years, Malcolm has been living mostly alone in a self-imposed exile in a remote village in Mexico where he has worked "on and off. . .but more off than on." With the passing of time, the art world has come to re-embrace his style. Trevor Fabricant, a New York-based art dealer, tracks down Malcolm and attempts to convince him to mount a solo exhibition back in the U.S. To help the artist create new work, Trevor has recruited his ex-boyfriend, Judd Sturgess, to serve as Malcolm's assistant. a rising young painter, Judd quickly forges a bond with Malcolm and helps him turn out bold paintings on large canvases. their friendship is thrown off balance, however, b

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1st Produced:
Mitzi Newhouse Theater, New York    08 Feb 2001

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy. - - Gay, theme/character, full length

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Three Hotels

Synopsis:
Concerning the foisting of powdered milk on Third World Infants.

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1st Produced:
New York    1992

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York, 1992   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Wendy and the Lost Boys

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Written by Jon Robin Baitz and Michael Hoffman. Based on the play "Peter Pan" by J M Barrie

1st Produced:
Susan Stein Shiva Theater, Poughkeepsie    23 Jul 2012

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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