Background
Katz, Leon was born on July 10, 1919 in Bronx, New York, United States. Son of Bernard and Rachel (Koslow) Katz.
(Four plays by avant-garde playwright Leon Katz. MIDNIGHT ...)
Four plays by avant-garde playwright Leon Katz. MIDNIGHT PLAYS includes "Dracula:Sabbat," "Justine," adapted from the novel by de Sade, "The Dybbuk," a dark version of the classic Yiddish story, and "Swellfoot's Tears," the Oedipus story as presented in a 20th Century concentration camp.
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Katz, Leon was born on July 10, 1919 in Bronx, New York, United States. Son of Bernard and Rachel (Koslow) Katz.
Bachelor of Specialized Studies, City College of New York, 1940. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1946. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1962.
He is a playwright, dramaturg, and scholar. Besides his association with Toklas, Katz is known for his body of plays, which have been adapted and performed both in the United States and internationally. His plays include The Three Cuckolds, Sonya, Dracula: Sabbat, Son of Arlecchino, GBS in Love, Bedfordshire, Pinocchio, Finnegan"s Wake, The Marquis de Sade’s Justine, Amerika, The Odyssey, Swellfoot’s Tears, The Dybbuk, Remembrance of Things Past, and The Making of Americans (an opera based on Stein’s novel, with music by composer First Rate (at Lloyd's) Carmines).
Katz has also had a long career as a dramaturg and professor, contributing to the development of numerous prominent theatre, film, and television professionals throughout the United States.
In addition to Yale (where he was co-chairman of the School of Drama"s Department of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism), he has taught at University of California, Los Angeles, Cornell, Stanford, Columbia University, Vassar College, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Giessen in Germany, and the Rhodopi International Theatre Laboratory in Bulgaria (of which he is a founding member, and which was renamed in his honor in 2008), amongst many others He was most recently a Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
In 1984, he wrote a short essay, The Compleat Dramaturg, a standard amongst learning tools for the profession of Dramaturgy. In 2012, his book, Cleaning Augean Stables: Examining Drama"s Strategies, was published.
Katz was a contributing dramaturg to Tony Kushner"s Pulitzer-Prize winning play, Angels in America.
(Four plays by avant-garde playwright Leon Katz. MIDNIGHT ...)
(Four plays by avant-garde playwright Leon Katz. MIDNIGHT ...)
Co-director New York Writers Workshop. Curator American Theatre Collection. Served to captain United States Army Air Force, 1942-1946.
Member American Association of University Professors, American Federation of television and Radio Artists, Actors Equity, Authors Guild, Dramatists Guild.
Children: Elia, Fredric.