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Nine Contemporary Jewish Plays is a refreshing collection. It refreshes our understanding of contemporary Jewish theatre. The plays are authentic, challenging, and inspiring. Leonard Nimoy, film and television actor This collection of plays is remarkable for its truthful, open-minded, and non-stereotypical depictions of Jewish life. Daryl Roth, producer of five Pulitzer Prize-winning plays, including Proof and Wit Nine Contemporary Jewish Plays offers abundant proof that Jewish theatre is not limited to revivals, but is a field being tilled by many varied and diversely talented playwrights. Isaiah Sheffer, Artistic Director of Symphony Space and producer of National Public Radio's Selected Shorts

Mainstream readers are encouraged to visit the drama bookshelf to locate this intelligent, probin collection filled with vivid examples of how dramatic literature can humanize moral and social dilemmas by embodying them in the personal irritations and intimacies of daily life. -- Eithan Kanfer Forward

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Ellen Schiff has written extensively on the depiction of Jews on stage. She is most recently the editor of Awake and Singing: Six Great American Jewish Plays. She serves as a juror in the New Play Commissions competition and as advisor to the Global Theatre Initiative in Israel and the Jewish Theatre of Austria. A veteran member of the Association for Jewish Theatre, she lives in New York City. Michael Posnick is Professor and Director of the Department of Dance and Theatre at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York. A longtime juror for the New Play Commissions and theatre consultant to the NFJC, he founded and directed the Mosaic Theatre at the 92nd Street Y. His productions have been seen at Yale Repertory Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Lincoln Center. He is a resident of New York City.

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