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Allan Graubard
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Allan Graubard
Allan Graubard is a poet, playwright and critic now translated into
11 languages. His books include Roma Amor (print edition forthcoming
in the US and Brazil), Glimpses from a fleeing window & other poems
(forthcoming), Fragments from Nomad Days, For Alejandra (on the suicide
of South American poet Alejandra Pizarnik), and Ascent of Sublime Love.
Other features are Notes on ruins and the Sarajevo Manuscript. He collaborates
with a host of creators in dance, music, art and science, from Alice
Farley Dance Co. in the recent The Wind's Skeleton (Beyond Baroque Theater,
LA; Bowery Poetry Club, NY) to the celebrated conductor-composer Butch
Morris. His latest theater work, Woman Bomb/De Sade is now in workshop
in New York and his previous For Alejandra premiered in New York then
toured to Washington, DC, Dubrovnik, Croatia, and the Sibiu International
Theater Festival, Sibiu Romania, where it was published in translation
with a national radio broadcast. Other theater works include Folding
Space, with Butch Morris Ensemble, Jazz em Augosto Festival, Lisbon,
Portugal, Lache pas la Patate, (Bayou Bijou Theater, Lafayette, Louisiana,
a Smithsonian Folklife Project), and The One in the Other, Synchronicity
Space Theater, New York. His adaptation of the surrealist classic King
Gordogan, by Radovan Ivsic, opened to acclaim at the Ohio Theater, New
York, with Croatian PEN Center, Zagreb, publishing the play, with essays
on the playwright. Modette, his grand music-theater work with Butch
Morris, premiered at Aaron Davis Hall, New Voices, New Visions Series,
after playing at PS 122, Roulette Intermedia Performance Space and other
downtown NY venues. Additional theater works include There was blood,
much blood (Manhattan Class Company Theatre), The Test and The Ampulla
(Ensemble Studio Theatre), and the on-site performance Sojourns in the
Public Trust, which toured nationally. In 2006/7, he was guest artist
at Wesleyan University and The Lee Strasberg Theater & Film Institute,
NY, and in 2001, he was a juror, MES Sarajevo International Theater
Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina. In 2009 he will publish an anthology
of surrealist poetry in the Americas, with translator Beatriz Hausner
Zeller. His work is featured on the following sites: http://www.bigbridge.org,
http://www.ExquisiteCorpse.org, http://www.nyartsmagazine.com.
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