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Introduction
For over two decades, Fred Newman has been a unique voice in the American theatre.
In 30 highly original and entertaining plays and musicals, Newman’s plays
are deeply philosophical and accessible, sharply political and non-didactic. Read
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Fred
Newman's Theatre Work
Plays written and/or conceived
by Fred Newman (in alphabetical
order):
(All produced at the Castillo Theatre, NYC, unless otherwise
noted)
| • |
A Demonstration: Common
Women, the Uncommon Lives of Ordinary Women (1986) written
with William Pleasant |
| • |
All Stars Hip-Hop Cabaret (2004) |
| • |
Beyond the Pale* (1996) |
| • |
Billie, Malcolm & Yusuf (1991) |
| • |
Billie & Malcolm: A Demonstration
(1993) |
| • |
Carmen’s Community (1987) |
| • |
Carmen’s Place (A Fantasy)
(1998) music written with Annie Roboff, with excerpts
from Carmen, music by Georges Bizet, words by H. Meilhac
and L. Halevy |
| • |
Castillo Improv (2003) |
| • |
The Collected Emotions of V.I.
Lenin (1986) written with Dan Friedman |
| • |
Coming of Age in Korea (1996)
music and lyrics written with Annie Roboff |
| • |
Controluce (1995) conceived with
Graziella Martinoli |
| • |
Crown Heights (1998) written with
Dan Friedman and Jacqueline Salit, music and lyrics by
Dan Belmont, Browneyes, Dan Friedman and Lenny Moore |
| • |
Dead as a Jew (Zion’s Community)
(1992) |
| • |
Demonstration! (1988) written
with William Pleasant |
| • |
Demonstration 2004 (2004) |
| • |
Diary of a Mad Therapist (A New
York Kind of Experience)* (2001) |
| • |
From Gold to Platinum (1986) written
with Dan Friedman and William Pleasant |
| • |
Have You Ever Seen a Dream Rapping?
(2005) |
| • |
Home Movie & Hootenanny (2002) |
| • |
Kansas on my Mind (1994) music
and lyrics written with Annie Roboff |
| • |
The Last Temptation of William
Jefferson (1999) music by Annie Roboff |
| • |
Left of the Moon (1994) |
| • |
Lenin’s Breakdown (1994)
written with Dan Friedman |
| • |
License to Dream (2005) conceived
with David Parsons, music by David Truskinoff |
| • |
Life Upon the Wicked Stage* (1997) |
| • |
Mantle, Maris and Mom (The Goys
of Summer) (2001) music by Annie Roboff |
| • |
Mr. Hirsch Died Yesterday (1986) |
| • |
The Myth of Psychology* (1999) |
| • |
No Room for Zion (A Kaddish by
a Communist Jew) (1989) |
| • |
Odd Couple Seeks Professional
Help: Marx and the Messiah in Therapy* (2003) |
| • |
Off-Broadway Melodies of 1592
(The 400th Anniversary of the Centennial Celebration
of Columbus’ So-called Discovery of America) (1992)
music and lyrics written with Annie Roboff |
| • |
Outing Wittgenstein (or Sunday
in the Park with Ludwig) (1993) |
| • |
Requiem For Communism** (1993)
a collaboration with Amy Pivar and Bill T. Jones |
| • |
Revising Germany (1998) |
| • |
Risky Revolutionary (1996) |
| • |
Sally and Tom (The American Way)
(1995) music written by Annie Roboff, |
| • |
Salvador (Fictional Conversations)
(1997) |
| • |
Satchel: A Requiem for Racism
(1998) |
| • |
Sessions with Jesus (The Story
of Greatness Never Told) (2002) |
| • |
Stealin’ Home (1997) |
| • |
Still on the Corner (1993) music
and lyrics written with Annie Roboff |
| • |
The Store: One Block East of Jerome
(1991) |
| • |
The Story of Truth* (1998) |
| • |
The Story of Truth (A Whodunit)
(1999) |
| • |
The Therapy Plays: Newman’s
Postmodern Follies (2005) |
| • |
This Is Your Ridiculous Life!!
(2004) |
| • |
To Be or Not To Be or Neither:
A Performatory History of Developmental Theatre (In the
Rough) (2000) |
| • |
What is to be Dead? (Philosophical
Scenes) (1996) |
| • |
Who’s on First? (2001) |
| • |
Yes! We Have No Bananas and Other
Contradictions in the Life of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1993) |
* performed at the annual meetings of the American Psychological
Association
** produced at the Dance Theater Workshop, NYC
Fred Newman Directing Credits (in chronological order):
(All written by Fred Newman unless otherwise noted)
| • |
A Demonstration: Common
Women, the Uncommon Lives of Ordinary Women (March 1986) |
| • |
From Gold to Platinum (June/Sept
1986) |
| • |
The Collected Emotions of V.I.
Lenin (Oct 1986) |
| • |
Mr. Hirsch Died Yesterday (Dec
1986, March 1991) |
| • |
Carmen’s Community (March
1987, Oct/Nov 1989, April 1992, May 1995) |
| • |
Müllerschmerz/Müller’s
Pain by William Pleasant (Sept 1987, Oct/Nov 1989) |
| • |
Demonstration! (May 1988) |
| • |
Demonstration! Aaron Davis Hall,
City College of New York (Sept 1988) |
| • |
No Room for Zion (A Kaddish by
a Communist Jew) (Oct/Nov 1989, Dec 1990) |
| • |
The Collected Emotions of V.I.
Lenin (June/Dec 1990) |
| • |
The Store: One Block East of Jerome
(March 1991, April 1995) |
| • |
Billie, Malcolm & Yusuf (Nov
1991) |
| • |
Dead as a Jew (Zion’s Community)
(May 1992) |
| • |
Explosion of a Memory (Description
of a Picture) by Heiner Müller (Oct 1992, May 2003) |
| • |
Off-Broadway Melodies of 1592
(The 400th Anniversary of the Centennial Celebration
of Columbus’ So-called Discovery of America) (Nov
1992) |
| • |
Billie & Malcolm: A Demonstration
(Jan 1993, Feb 1994) |
| • |
It’s Going Around by Yosef
Mundy (March 1993) |
| • |
Yes! We Have No Bananas and Other
Contradictions in the Life of Ludwig Wittgenstein (May
1993) |
| • |
Requiem For Communism (1993) a
collaboration with Amy Pivar and Bill T. Jones |
| • |
Still on the Corner (Nov 1993,
Dec 1994) |
| • |
The Task by Heiner Müller
(Jan 1994) |
| • |
Who Will Dance With Pancho Villa?
(Only a Crazy Revolutionary) by John and Gabriel Fraire
(April 1994) |
| • |
Outing Wittgenstein (June 1994) |
| • |
Kansas on my Mind (Aug 1994) |
| • |
Red Channels by Laurence Holder
(Sept 1994) |
| • |
Left of the Moon (Nov 1994) |
| • |
A Season in the Congo by Aimé Césaire
(Sept 1995) |
| • |
Sally and Tom (The American Way)
(Dec 1995, Oct 2005) directed with Gabrielle Kurlander |
| • |
F by Laurence Holder (Feb 1996) |
| • |
Hamletmachine by Heiner Müller
(March 1996, Oct 2002) |
| • |
Galileo by Bertolt Brecht (May
1996) directed with Gabrielle Kurlander |
| • |
What is to be Dead? (Philosophical
Scenes) (June 1996) |
| • |
A Season in the Congo by Aimé Césaire,
Sermac Festival, Fort-de-France, Martinique (July 1996) |
| • |
Coming of Age in Korea (Dec 1996) |
| • |
An Obituary – Heiner Müller:
A Man Without Behind featuring writings by Heiner Müller
(April 1997) directed with David Nackman |
| • |
Salvador (Fictional Conversations)
(Sept 1997) directed with Dan Friedman |
| • |
Satchel: A Requiem for Racism
(Jan 1998) directed with Dan Friedman |
| • |
The Mission by Heiner Müller
(May 1998) |
| • |
Revising Germany (Sept 1998) |
| • |
Crown Heights (Nov 1998) directed
with Dan Friedman, Pam Lewis, and Diane Stiles |
| • |
The Story of Truth (A Whodunit)
(May 1999) |
| • |
The Last Temptation of William
Jefferson (Sept 1999) |
| • |
The Persecution and Assassination
of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the
Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis
de Sade by Peter Weiss (Feb 2000) |
| • |
To Be or Not To Be or Neither:
A Performatory History of Developmental Theatre (In the
Rough) (Dec 2000) |
| • |
Stealin’ Home (Sept 2000,
Oct 2004) 2004 production directed with David Nackman |
| • |
Mantle, Maris and Mom (The Goys
of Summer) (Feb 2001) |
| • |
Who’s on First? (May 2001) |
| • |
Germania 3 Ghosts at Dead Man
by Heiner Müller (Oct 2001) |
| • |
What is to be Dead? (Philosophical
Scenes) (Jan 2002) |
| • |
Home Movie & Hootenanny (March
2002) |
| • |
Sessions with Jesus (The Story
of Greatness Never Told) (May 2002) |
| • |
Castillo Improv (Feb 2003) |
| • |
Demonstration 2004 (Jan 2004) |
| • |
Mommsen’s Future featuring
writings by Heiner Müller (April 2004) |
| • |
Castillo on my Mind (July 2004)
directed with Cathy Rose Salit |
| • |
License to Dream (June 2005) |
| • |
Sapphire’s Kiss by Maggie
Zarillo-Gouldin (June 2006) directed with Mary Fridley |
Collaborations with other theatre
artists (in chronological
order):
| • |
Controluce conceived
by Graziella Martinoli and Fred Newman (Oct 1995) |
| • |
Requiem For Communism, a dance
piece written with theatrical elements, written and directed
by Fred Newman, a collaboration with Amy Pivar and Bill
T. Jones (Fall 1993) |
| • |
License to Dream, conceived by
Fred Newman and David Parsons, book and lyrics by Fred
Newman, music by David Truskinoff (June 2005) |
Film
| • |
Nothing Really Happens
(Memories of Aging Strippers) written and directed by
Fred Newman (2003) |
Plays written and/or conceived
by Fred Newman (in alphabetical order):
(All produced at the Castillo Theatre, NYC, unless otherwise noted)
| • |
A Demonstration: Common
Women, the Uncommon Lives of Ordinary Women (1986) written
with William Pleasant |
| • |
All Stars Hip-Hop Cabaret (2004) |
| • |
Beyond the Pale* (1996) |
| • |
Billie, Malcolm & Yusuf (1991) |
| • |
Billie & Malcolm: A Demonstration
(1993) |
| • |
Carmen’s Community (1987) |
| • |
Carmen’s Place (A Fantasy)
(1998) music written with Annie Roboff, with excerpts
from Carmen, music by Georges Bizet, words by H. Meilhac
and L. Halevy |
| • |
Castillo Improv (2003) |
| • |
The Collected Emotions of V.I.
Lenin (1986) written with Dan Friedman |
| • |
Coming of Age in Korea (1996)
music and lyrics written with Annie Roboff |
| • |
Controluce (1995) conceived with
Graziella Martinoli |
| • |
Crown Heights (1998) written with
Dan Friedman and Jacqueline Salit, music and lyrics by
Dan Belmont, Browneyes, Dan Friedman and Lenny Moore |
| • |
Dead as a Jew (Zion’s Community)
(1992) |
| • |
Demonstration! (1988) written
with William Pleasant |
| • |
Demonstration 2004 (2004) |
| • |
Diary of a Mad Therapist (A New
York Kind of Experience)* (2001) |
| • |
From Gold to Platinum (1986) written
with Dan Friedman and William Pleasant |
| • |
Have You Ever Seen a Dream Rapping?,
(2005) |
| • |
Home Movie & Hootenanny (2002) |
| • |
Kansas on my Mind (1994) music
and lyrics written with Annie Roboff |
| • |
The Last Temptation of William
Jefferson (1999) music by Annie Roboff |
| • |
Left of the Moon (1994) |
| • |
Lenin’s Breakdown (1994)
written with Dan Friedman |
| • |
License to Dream (2005) conceived
with David Parsons, music by David Truskinoff |
| • |
Life Upon the Wicked Stage* (1997) |
| • |
Mantle, Maris and Mom (The Goys
of Summer) (2001) music by Annie Roboff |
| • |
Mr. Hirsch Died Yesterday (1986) |
| • |
The Myth of Psychology* (1999) |
| • |
No Room for Zion (A Kaddish by
a Communist Jew) (1989) |
| • |
Odd Couple Seeks Professional
Help: Marx and the Messiah in Therapy* (2003) |
| • |
Off-Broadway Melodies of 1592
(The 400th Anniversary of the Centennial Celebration
of Columbus’ So-called Discovery of America) (1992)
music and lyrics written with Annie Roboff |
| • |
Outing Wittgenstein (or Sunday
in the Park with Ludwig) (1993) |
| • |
Requiem For Communism** (1993)
a collaboration with Amy Pivar and Bill T. Jones |
| • |
Revising Germany (1998) |
| • |
Risky Revolutionary (1996) |
| • |
Sally and Tom (The American Way)
(1995) music written by Annie Roboff, |
| • |
Salvador (Fictional Conversations)
(1997) |
| • |
Satchel: A Requiem for Racism
(1998) |
| • |
Sessions with Jesus (The Story
of Greatness Never Told) (2002) |
| • |
Stealin’ Home (1997) |
| • |
Still on the Corner (1993) music
and lyrics written with Annie Roboff |
| • |
The Store: One Block East of Jerome
(1991) |
| • |
The Story of Truth* (1998) |
| • |
The Story of Truth (A Whodunit)
(1999) |
| • |
The Therapy Plays: Newman’s
Postmodern Follies (2005) |
| • |
This Is Your Ridiculous Life!!
(2004) |
| • |
To Be or Not To Be or Neither:
A Performatory History of Developmental Theatre (In the
Rough) (2000) |
| • |
What is to be Dead? (Philosophical
Scenes) (1996) |
| • |
Who’s on First? (2001) |
| • |
Yes! We Have No Bananas and Other
Contradictions in the Life of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1993) |
Public dialogues on theatre (in chronological order):
| • |
Culture Talk for A Season In the Congo
(Sept 1995) with Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, chair, U.S.-Congo Friendship
Committee, professor, Georgetown University; Roger Toumson, professor,
University of Guyana |
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Culture Talk for Controluce (Oct 1995) with Graziella
Martinoli, founder and artistic director of La Pinguicola Sulle Vigne,
Genoa, Italy; Dr. Mimi D’Aponte, Executive Committee of CUNY Ph.D.
program in Theatre, Baruch College Speech Department; Mario Fratti, playwright,
theatre critic; Dr. Jane House, Academic Committee member, McGregor School
of Antioch University, Professor, Lehman College |
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Culture Talk for Sally and Tom (The American Way)
(Dec 1995) with Annette Gordon-Reed: writer, professor, NYU Law School;
Dr. Jan Lewis; Dr. Herbert Sloan: writer, professor, Barnard College, Columbia
University |
| • |
Culture Talk for F / Left of the Moon (Feb 1996)
with Laurence Holder, playwright, director; Judith Malina and Hanon Resnikov,
Living Theatre; Jenneth Webster, Lincoln Center Out of Doors |
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Culture Talk for Hamletmachine (March 1996) with
Stephan Suschke, artistic director, Berliner Ensemble; Jonathan Kalb; Sylvere
Lotringer; Andreas Huysen |
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Culture Talk for Galileo (May 1996) with Bill Coco,
Dramaturg, Actors Studio; Dr. Jay Lemke, Physicist, CUNY |
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Culture Talk for What Is To Be Dead? (Philosophical
Scenes) (June 1996) with Alberto Sandoval-Sanchez, professor, Mt. Holyoke
College, creative writer, cultural critic; Victoria McIlwaine |
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Ché as Cultural Icon (Sept 1996) with Janis
Astor del Valle, Writer, actor, producer, Primary Stages; Alma Villegas,
actress, director, Executive Director of Music Against Drugs, Inc. |
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Whore Goddess: Popular Culture and the African American
Woman Artist (Nov 1996) with Kim Green, production manager, Mercury Records;
Laurence Holder, playwright, director; Bertha Hope, jazz pianist, professor,
New School; Sally Placksin, author, radio producer, NPR |
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Growing Up an “Ugly American” (Dec 1996)
with Christine Choy, chair of the Graduate Film & TV Dept. at NYU’s
Tisch School of the Arts; Heinz Insu Fenkl, professor, Vassar College,
Author; Sunghee Jung, director of New Hope Christian Theatre; Laurel Kendall,
Curator, American Museum of National History, professor, Columbia University |
| • |
American Democracy and American Sports (Feb 1997)
with Vic Ziegel, columnist, New York Daily News; Lawrence Hogan; Ed Charles
Third baseman, New York Mets; Joe Dorinsonl chairman, History Department,
Long Island University |
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What’s Really Gay – and Does It Matter?
(June 1997) with Dave DeChristoper: playwright |
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Culture Talk for Salvador (Fictional Conversations)
(Dec 1997) with René Busch, artistic director, Repertorio Español;
Alberto Minero, Theatre Critic, El Diario, Village Voice |
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Culture Talk for The Store: One Block East of Jerome
(Nov 1997) with Bina Sharif, playwright, director; Juliana Francis, performance
artist; Penny Arcade, performance artist |
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Culture Talk for Satchel: A Requiem for Racism (Jan
1998) with Ed Bullins, playwright; Carl Clay, founder, Black Spectrum Theater |
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Culture Talk for Carmen’s Place (A Fantasy)
with Michael Capaso, founder, general director, Dicapo Opera Theatre; David
Esbjornson, artistic director, Classic Stage Company; Richard Kessler,
executive director, The American Music Center; Tom O’Horgan, director,
Vienna State Opera, New York City Opera |
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Performing a Revolutionary Poet in a Non-Revolutionary
Time (May 1998) with Sean McGlynn, director; Joe Martin, artistic director,
dramaturg, Open Theatre/T.U.T.A.; Zeljko Djukic, director, Open Theatre/T.U.T.A. |
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Revising Brecht (Sept 1998) with John Feugi, founder,
International Brecht Society, author |
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Youth, Theatre, and History: A Dialogue between
Elizabeth Swados and Fred Newman (Nov 1998) |
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The Myth of Race (Jan 1999) with Annette Gordon-Reed,
professor, NY Law School, author, Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings
An American Controversy; Dorothy Jefferson Westerinen, descendant of Thomas
Jefferson; Shay Banks-Young, descendant of Thomas Jefferson |
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Revolution’s Breakdown (March 1999) with Jeremy
Pikser, co-author Bulworth; Marketta Kimbrell, artistic director, New York
Street Theatre Caravan |
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What’s Truth Got To Do With It? (June 1999)
with Kenneth Gergen, postmodern psychologist, professor, Swarthmore College |
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Performing Politics (Sept 1999) with Pat Choate,
author, 1996 Vice Presidential Candidate, Reform Party |
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Will It Ever Happen? (Dec 1999) with Milton Little,
Jr., executive vice president, National Urban League; Lee Stringer, author,
former editor, Street News |
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After Revolution Fails (Feb 2000) with Richard Schechner,
professor, New York University, editor, The Drama Review |
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Memory, Motion, and Family (May 2000) with George
Faison, choreographer |
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Culture Talk for Stealin’ Home (Sept 2000)
with Larry Leon Hamlin, founder, producer and artistic director of the
National Black Theatre Festival; Louis Johnson, Broadway choreographer
and director; Roger Kahn, sportswriter, author of The Boys of Summer (Nov
2000) |
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Performance, Theatre, and Development (Dec 2000)
with Dominic Chianese, actor, All Stars Project celebrity spokesperson |
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The Game Goes On (Feb 2001) with Roger Kahn: sportswriter,
author of The Boys of Summer |
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You Make Me Feel Like Dancin’ (May 2001) with
Susan Jaffe, principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre |
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Müller in America Festival Presents… (Oct
2001) with Mike Gravel, former U.S. Senator from Alaska and founder of
Philadelphia II and Democracy Direct |
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What is to be Theatre? (Philosophical Scenes) (Jan
2002) with David Hersovits, artistic director of Target Margin Theater |
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Robert Wilson and Fred Newman: A Talk with 2 Directors
(Feb 11, 2002), moderated by Richard Schechner at John Jay College of Criminal
Justice |
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It’s Ridiculous, But is it Theatre? (March
2002) with John Vaccaro, founder of Ridiculous Theatre Company |
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Conversation with José Saramago (May 2002) |
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Ethics and Emotionality (May 2002) with G. Beaudin,
founder and artistic director of thedramaloft |
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Many Hamlets, Many Machines (Oct 2002) with David
Henderson, costume/scenic designer; John Troyer, founder, Praxis Group |
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Improvising New Ways of Seeing (Oct 2002) with Rosemary
Quinn, director of NYU’s Experimental Theatre Wing (ETW) at Tisch
School of the Arts, |
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When (Theatre) Worlds Collide with David Esbjornson
(Oct 2002) |
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