Larry is a Philadelphia playwright, dramaturg, screen writer, and teacher. His most recent play, House, Divided was nominated for a “Best New Play” Barrymore Award after its 2008 production at InterAct Theater Company. His produced full-length plays include La Tempestad, which premiered Off-Off Broadway at the OHIO THTR in New York in 2005, produced by The Resonance Ensemble, The Ballad of John Wesley Reed, which was produced by Theatre Catalyst in Philadelphia also in 2005, and Pride of the Lion, also produced by Theater Catalyst. Published full length plays include La Tempestad in the anthology Playing With Canons: Explosive New Works from Literature by America’s Indie Playwrights, NYT Books, and Pride of the Lion, published by Playscripts.com. He has been awarded four Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships in playwriting, an EST/Sloan Science Foundation rewrite commission for his play Girl Science, and was awarded a new play commission for House, Divided from the National Council for Jewish Culture. Larry worked for seven years as the literary manager and dramaturg at InterAct Theater Company, and has since worked as a free-lance dramaturg for Seven Devils Playwrights Conference in Idaho, PlayPenn New Play Conference in Philadelphia, and the Lark Playwrights Week in New York, as well as for several private clients. Larry has been writing and updating a live theatrical presentation called Living News about Constitutional issues, which performs for student and public audiences four times a day during the school year at that National Constitution Center. He also wrote the monologues spoken by the signers of the Constitution which National Constitution Center visitors can hear on their iPod tours of the Signers Hall exhibit. For the past six years he has taught playwriting and dramaturgy on a part-time basis at Arcadia University in Glenside, PA, and since 1998 he has taught film history as an adjunct Associate Professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
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