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Richard Schotter
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Richard Schotter - Playwriting
Richard Schotter's plays—Medicine Show, Benya the
King, The Wood Dancer and Taking Stock— have been
performed in New York, around the U.S. and in Europe. He has been
an Obie Award nominee and received a CAPS grant and the National Foundation
for Jewish Culture's Berman Playwriting Award (for Benya the King).
In addition to his work as a playwright, he has been a member of
the BMI-Lehman Engel Mucical Theatre Workshop where his short musical,
Duet for Shy People (Music by Michael Kosarin), was first performed.
Duet for Shy People has since been performed at the Westside
Theatre in New York and was a winner of the ETC Orlando's 1994 Spring
Sing competition. It is currently part of the musical Plaisir d'Amour
and Other Stories.
He has been a songwriter for the PBS children's series The Puzzle
Place and has recently finished the book and lyrics for the musical
Anne of Green Gables with composer Michael Kosarin.
Richard Schotter holds a Ph.D. in Dramatic Literature from Columbia
University where he studied with Robert Brustein and Eric Bentley.
He has been a Fulbright Scholar, an editor of The Drama Review and
Literary Manager of the American Place Theatre. In addition to teaching
at Boston University, he is Professor of English at Queens College,
CUNY, where he chairs the Creative Writing Program.
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