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JON MARANS (Playwright).
Old Wicked Songs, 1996 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama,
winner of the L.A. Drama Logue Award, included in “Otis Guernsey's
Best Plays of 1996-97.” First presented by the Walnut Street
Theatre in Philadelphia, then in New York by Daryl Roth at Playhouse
91, subsequently moving to the Promenade Theater. In England, Old
Wicked Songs starting at the Bristol Old Vic, then transferred
to London's West End at the Gielgud Theater, starring Bob Hoskins.
The play has been translated and produced in a dozen countries around
the world and was the second most performed new play in the United
States in the 1997-98 season. Other produced shows: a musical based
on Studs Terkel’s “Coming of Age” entitled Legacy
of the Dragonslayers (book by Jon Marans) San Jose Repertory
Theatre; Jumping for Joy, Laguna Playhouse and Independent
Theater in Australia, the musical Irrationals (book & lyrics
Jon Marans, music by Edward Thomas) Village Theater in Seattle and
in NYC. In October, 2005, A Strange & Separate People opens
at the Penguin Rep in N.Y. In film , Mr. Marans was a story editor/script
doctor for Stonebridge, Michael Douglas' production
company at Columbia Pictures, instrumental in the development of
numerous films. And in TV was a staff writer/lyricist for the 1991 "New
Carol Burnett Show" on CBS and has written these last two years
for Cookin' in Brooklyn, a “comedy-reality” show
on the Discovery Channel. Mr. Marans is a graduate of Duke University
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