Theater of Ideas

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Theater of Ideas

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About me

Gender	Male
Occupation	Writer, Director, Artistic Director
Location	New York, NY, United States
Introduction	I am the Artistic Director of Untitled Theater Company #61, a Theater of Ideas: scientific, political, philosophical, and above all theatrical. I am also a playwright, director, and novelist (mostly of children's books)
Interests	absurdism, children's books, czech republic, ionesco, judaism, kurt vonnegut, neurology, oz, picture books, poker, probability, puppetry, swing dancing, theater, theatre, vaclav havel
Favorite Movies	Amadeus, Henry Fool, Raise the Red Lantern (or anything by Zhang Yimou), American Splendor, Mulholland Drive, Eyes Wide Shut, Barry Lyndon (or anything by Kubrick), Crimes &; Misdemeanors (and selected other films by Woody Allen), Goodfellas, King of Comedy, Bringing Up Baby, North by Northwest, His Girl Friday, Young Frankestein, Ed Wood, That Obscure Object of Desire (or anything by Bunuel), Miller's Crossing, The Thin Blue Line (or anything by Errol Morris), Cabaret, Three days on the Condor, Au revoir les enfants, Brazil, Persepolis
Favorite Music	They Might Be Giants, The Kingston Trio, Kander &; Ebb, Angelo Badalamenti, Nino Rota, Stephen Sondheim, The Beach Boys, Michael Nyman, The Weavers, The Inkspots
Favorite Books	Cat's Cradle, (or anything by Kurt Vonnegut), Catch 22, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, (or anything by Oliver Sacks), Godel Escher &; Bach, Maus, Age of Bronze, (or anything by Eric Shanower), 1984, The Great Gatsby, The Plague, Motormorphosis, Lolita, The Wizard of Oz, Ozma of Oz, (or anything by L. Frank Baum), Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, (or anything by Lewis Carroll), the Five Children and It, (or anything by Edith Nesbit), and of course my own books:, Paradox in Oz, The Living House of Oz, A Very Improbable Story