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Joseph Ritz

JOSEPH RITZ  

 Nationality:    USA
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Joseph P. Ritz resumed writing plays in the 1980s because of an acute sense of fair play. At one time during a long journalistic career he was a drama critic. The New York Foundation for the Arts awarded him a playwriting fellowship in 2002. He is the author of two books. The Despised Poor received favorable reviews in the New York Times and several other newspapers and in national magazines in the mid 1960s. In 2006 a book of humorous stories about his life as a journalist was published under the title, I Never Looked for My Mother and Other Regrets of a Journalist. Ritz wrote part of a series of articles entitled The Road to Integration, which won a Pulitzer Prize for the Gannett Group of newspapers. He has also won several national and state awards in his own right for his newspaper stories in The Buffalo Courier-Express and The Buffalo News.

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below is a list of Joseph Ritz's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Acts Of Contrition         Copy Desk         Family Honor         Harvest Years, The

Acts Of Contrition

Synopsis:
set in a Trappist monastery in which the major conflict is between an abbot and anticlerical feminist reporter looking for a scandal about a famous dead monk-poet who some want to make a saint

Notes:
one of four finalists in the prestigious Drama League of New York's 1987-88 Plays in Progress Competition. A new version, Trappists, was one of three plays (out of nearly 600) selected for the 1992 Theater in the Works festival At the University of Massachusetts

1st Produced:
American Ensemble Theatre Company, NY    1988

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1st Published:
as Trappists in INCISIONS, Award Winning Plays from the Stage and Screen Book Club, Doubleday, 2001   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Copy Desk

Synopsis:
about the closing of a newspaper

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Family Honor

Synopsis:
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runner up in the Pickering And White/Willis national play competitions in 1994.

1st Produced:
-    1994

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Harvest Years, The

Synopsis:
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of the three winners in the 1999 Henrico Play Contest. It was staged in Richmond, Va. It placed second in the 2000 Open Book Contest, sponsored by the Stage And Screen Book Club And was one of three winners of the 2004 American Theatre Co-op's contest for one Act plays

1st Produced:
Leather Stocking Theatre, Cooperstown, NY    -

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Genre:
comedy One Act

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