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Murray Mednick was born on 1939 in Brooklyn, New York, is an American playwright and poet (born 1939). Discover Murray Mednick's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?
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Murray Mednick Net Worth
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Murray Mednick (born 1939) is an American playwright and poet.
Born in 1939 to a family with Jewish roots, Mednick attended Brooklyn College and became involved with New York's off-off-Broadway company Theatre Genesis, where much of his early work was staged.
Murray Mednick met Sam Sheppard in 1965, they went on to start a band called "The Heavy Metal Kid."
Mednick and Sheppard were a part of the Off- Off broadway movement in NY.
He was eventually appointed to the post of artistic co-director in 1970.
In 1974, Mednick moved to Los Angeles after being evicted from his apartment while on a trip to the Yucatán on a Guggenheim grant.
He is best known as founder of the Padua Hills Playwrights Workshop/Festival, where he served as artistic director from 1978 to 1995.
He has received numerous awards for his plays, including two Rockefeller Grants and an OBIE.
Mednick founded the long-running summer workshop Padua Hills Playwrights Workshop/Festival in 1978 with funding from LaVerne University, where he was teaching at the time.
The workshop was meant to be an extension of his collaborations with Ralph Cook, his mentor and founder of Theatre Genesis.
In his teachings at Padua, Mednick stressed a strong grounding in theater and literary history, specifically the Ancient Greeks, Shakespeare, and Beckett.
Language was especially important.
Padua ceased operation in 1995 and reemerged in 2001, premiering three Mednick works as part of a tribute series honoring influential local playwrights.
His play Switchback was published in 1997 by (Sun and Moon Press).
Anthologized plays include Freeze, The Deer Kill, Willie the Germ, The Hawk, Sand, Switchback, Taxes, and others.
Mednick is the recipient of two Rockefeller Foundation grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an OBIE (The Deer Kill), several Bay Area Critics Awards, two LA Weekly Playwriting Awards (for Dictator and Fedunn), the American Theater Critics Association/Steinberg New Play Citation (for Joe and Betty), an Ovation Lifetime Achievement Award from Theatre LA for outstanding contributions to Los Angeles Theatre, a Local Hero Garland Award from Back Stage West for a Distinguished Body of Work, a Career Achievement Award from the LA Weekly, and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle’s most prestigious honor, the Margaret Harford Award for “Sustained Excellence in Theater.”
In a 2001 interview, Mednick said that Padua's teaching was "based in a literary knowledge, with a seriousness of purpose that isn't necessarily commercial. Both the writing and the acting are like realism-plus. Ordinary exchanges of life are put in an occasion that heightens them. The dialogue is really the action; it has a life of its own. The story is reflected by the dialogue."
Past productions include; Scar (starring actor Ed Harris), an autobiographical series 16 Routines, Joe and Betty (concerning his parents' difficult marriage, starring John Diehl and Annabel Gurwitch, which performed in New York starting in June 2002), and Mrs. Feuerstein, as well as Sand, The Hawk, Fedunn (produced by the Audrey Skirball-Kenis theatre), The Coyote Cycle, a series of one-act plays performed outdoors from twilight till dawn, involving four characters such as Spider Grandmother drawn from traditional Native American folklore.
The Coyote character was also featured in Destruction of the Fourth World, part of the 2009 series performed by Padua Playwrights.
His published plays include VILLON and other plays (2016), Hipsters in Distress (2005), Three Plays (2003), The Coyote Cycle (1993), by Padua Hills Press.
Mednick's current productions include Mayakovsky and Stalin, which premiered in Los Angeles starting in October 2018, and will move to the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York, 2019. The Gary Plays (8 separate works/ premiered in Los Angeles 2017), Villon (premiered in Los Angeles, 2014).