{"id":5535,"date":"2017-08-28T11:57:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T15:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=5535"},"modified":"2022-10-17T10:36:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T14:36:08","slug":"elise-thoron-about-the-artist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=5535","title":{"rendered":"Elise Thoron: About the Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Click here to listen to her interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Click here for her dramaturg, Julie Felise Dubiner<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elise Thoron <\/b>is a playwright, director, translator, her plays have been produced in the United States, Europe, Japan, Cuba: Green Violin<\/i><\/b>, music by Frank London, (Nine Contemporary Jewish Plays<\/i>); Prozak and the Platypus<\/i><\/b>, music by Jill Sobule (CD\/graphic novella<\/i>); Charlotte: Life? Or Theater?<\/i><\/b> based on paintings by Charlotte Salomon. Recycling: washi tales<\/i><\/b> an ongoing collaboration with distinguished Japanese paper artist, Kyoko Ibe. For over twenty years, Elise created cross-cultural exchanges with Russian and American theater artists; she adapted and directed The Great Gatsby<\/i><\/b> in Russian at a The Pushkin Theater in Moscow, where it played for over nine years. As Associate Artistic Director at American Place Theatre, Elise co-founded, Literature to Life<\/b>, a highly successful theater literacy program now nationwide. Among books she\u2019s adapted and directed for Literature to Life<\/b>:<\/i> Diaz\u2019s The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao<\/i><\/b>, Baldwin\u2019s If Beale Street Could Talk<\/i><\/b>, Zora Neale Hurston\u2019s Folktales, <\/i><\/b>Cisneros\u2019 The House on Mango Street<\/i><\/b>. She developed Tony award winning spoken word poet Lemon Andersen\u2019s ToasT<\/i><\/b> <\/i>and <\/i>County of Kings<\/i><\/b> at the Public Theater, which also performed at the Spoleto Festival and venues around the world. Her latest work Hatuey Memory of Fire<\/i><\/b> a Cuban nightclub opera in Yiddish, with music by Frank London, had its inaugural production at Opera de la Calle in Havana, March, 2017. Elise had a Sterling Fellowship in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale, where she taught Chekhov; her translations of Russian plays are produced and published in the United States and Canada.  <\/span>www.elisethoron.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Click here to listen to her interview. Click here for her dramaturg, Julie Felise Dubiner Elise Thoron is a playwright, director, translator, her plays have been produced in the United States, Europe, Japan, Cuba: Green Violin, music by Frank London, (Nine Contemporary Jewish Plays); Prozak and the Platypus, music by Jill Sobule (CD\/graphic novella); Charlotte: Life?<\/p>\n [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5535","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-1rh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8551,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5535\/revisions\/8551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}