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Welcome, and thank you for visiting my website. Of course, I want to share my writing with you. I also want to work together to make our world more creative, happy, peaceful, healthy, and just. Are you ready to join me on that journey?
Big news! I'm thrilled to share that I was commissioned by the wonderful Theatre Kavanah to write a play about the multifaceted, many layered, compelling story of The Lost Shul Mural, painted by Lithuanian immigrant Ben Zion Black in 1910. Of the Better Kind was performed as an enhanced staged reading May 19-21. I was also a grateful recent recipient of a Burlington City Arts Community Fund grant, which helped support several public events related to my play. Here's some of the great press we received: https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/burlingtons-lost-shul-mural-inspires-a-new-play/Content?oid=5721221 http://www.mynbc5.com/article/local-play-celebrates-burlingtons-hidden-history/9663306 http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/entertainment/2017/05/18/brents-arts-picks-theatre-kavanah-stages-new-work-of-better-kind/323754001/ Of the Better Kind is currently out on submission to theater companies around the country. UPDATE on ANNA'S JOURNAL: I'm in the process of trying to assemble a team of folks with creative and financial expertise to get the film version of Anna's Journal produced and eventually marketed. If you have an interest in joining us, or have any recommendations, please contact me. Here are links to some articles about the World Premiere of Anna's Journal, presented as a staged production: http://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/theatre-kavanah-foregrounds-racism-and-the-legacy-of-anne-frank-in-a-new-work/Content?oid=2266622 http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20131114/ENT/311140004/Theatre-Kavanah-examines-the-Jewish-experience-through-Anna-s-Journal- CONTACT: Joy Cohen JoyLisaCohen@gmail.com 802.598.6879 |