Jonathan Marc Sherman (born October 10, 1968) is an American playwright , poet , and actor . He submitted plays for several years to Young Playwrights Inc.'s National Playwrights Competition before they did a staged reading of his one-act, Serendipity and Serenity in 1987, followed by a full production of his next play, Women and Wallace (1988).
6-642: Sherman was one of the founders of Malaparte theater company. 1987. Young Playwrights Festival at Playwrights Horizons (staged reading) Winner of the 21st Century Playwrights Award The short play is about a family of two brothers, Toby and Max, and their father, fifteen years after the mother committed suicide. The play was written in 1991, and was performed by the Malaparte Theater Company in New York City . Calista Flockhart played Joanna, Josh Hamilton played Toby and Ethan Hawke played Max. In
12-527: A new play by an American playwright!" The New Yorker critic Hilton Als wrote that the Malaparte collective "brought a new take on male anxiety to the American theatre, and was not embarrassed by its love of women, or its romanticism." Malaparte officially dissolved in 2000, in part because the members wanted to devote more time to their children. In 2005, Hawke referred to the company's heyday as "pretty much
18-664: A theater company. Actors Robert Sean Leonard , Frank Whaley , and Steve Zahn joined the fledgling enterprise, which Hawke named after an obscure novel. Leonard later explained, "We would be sitting around New York a lot, and we bowled a lot, and eventually we thought, 'When we're not doing anything, why don't we see if we can put some new plays on?'" Malaparte's first production was a new translation of Luigi Pirandello 's 1918 play A Joke starring Hamilton, Hawke, Sherman, Cynthia Nixon , and Austin Pendleton , which ran from October 9–31, 1992. The company operated for three seasons in
24-646: The Columbia Pictures motion picture, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice , directed by Paul Mazursky and written by Mazursky and Larry Tucker. Sherman wrote the book for an original musical with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown . Sherman is married to Alexandra Shiva . They have two children. Malaparte (theater company) Malaparte was an American non-profit theater company based in New York City , New York . While driving cross-country in 1991, actors Josh Hamilton and Ethan Hawke and playwright Jonathan Marc Sherman decided to form
30-522: The 1990s as the members juggled film and television work; there were often disputes over fundraising, casting, and play selection. Shows were performed in rented venues throughout Manhattan, with a flat $ 10 ticket price. In 1992, Jason Blum joined Malaparte as co-producing director with Ami Armstrong who had been running the office out of her home apartment. Blum personally hawked fliers in Times Square, shouting, "Don't go see some Broadway show! Come see
36-957: The play's earlier incarnation as a workshop reading, Sherman himself played the part of Toby. 1995. WPA Theater in New York City. 2013. The New Group in New York City. Directed by Ethan Hawke . With Brooks Ashmanskas , Vincent D'Onofrio , Ethan Hawke, Stephanie Janssen, Mahira Kakkar, Zoe Kazan , Aaron Krohn, Dana Lyn, and Jonathan Marc Sherman. Sets by Derek McLane , lights by Jeff Croiter, costumes by Catherine Zuber , sound by Shane Rettig. 2020. The New Group in New York City. Book by Jonathan Marc Sherman, music by Duncan Sheik , lyrics by Sheik and Amanda Green , musical staging by Kelly Devine . Directed by Scott Elliott. With Jennifer Damiano , Jamie Mohamdein, Ana Nogueira , Joel Perez , Suzanne Vega , and Michael Zegen . Sets by Derek McLane , lights by Jeff Croiter, costumes by Jeff Mahshie, sound by Jessica Paz. Music direction by Jason Hart. Based on
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