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Caraid O'Brien • Offoffoff contributor Caraid O'Brien wrote a book-length website on the history of Yiddish Theater for New York University at www.yap.cat.nyu.edu. She has lectured on the Yiddish Theater at the 92nd Street Y, the Public Theater, the New York Public Library and the New York Theater Workshop. Her translation of Sholom Asch's "God of Vengeance" directed by Aaron Beall for Todo con Nada "set Show World aflame" last year and is currently playing in Washington, D.C., at Theater J in a new production by the Rorschach Theatre company. Presently, she is working on "Colbert Quigley," an Irishwoman's descent into hell set in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, during the late 1950s, and the book for "The Wonderboy," a musical based on the life of legendary crooner Seymour Rexite. She is also assisting the great Yiddish actress Luba Kadison to prepare 60 years of letters between her and her husband Joseph Buloff. Together with Beall, O'Brien received a new play commission from the National Foundation of Jewish Culture for "Jake the Mechanic," her adaptation of Dovid Pinski's Yiddish classic about an alcoholic womanizer from a religious Jewish background. The play will be set in modern-day Flatbush and translated into Yeshivish for an upcoming reading this Spring. Contact her at obrien@offoffoff.com. | ||||
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Film: • Washington Heights • When Brendan Met Trudy Theater: • Cartas • Comedians • The Complete Lost Works of Samuel Beckett • Culture Bandit • Depth of Sight • Dido, Queen of Carthage • Dirty Stuff • Eli's Comin' |
• Emilita and the Faery Glen • Eula Mae's Beauty, Bait & Tackle • The Gift • The Hostage • The House of Bernarda Alba • Howie the Rookie • A Life • Lipstick Traces • Mary Todd Lincoln: A Woman Apart • Now That Communism Is Dead My Life Feels Empty |
• A Ritual of Faith • She Stoops to Comedy • Star • Want's Unwisht Work • The Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret |
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