Rajiv Joseph

Rajiv Joseph

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name = Rajiv Joseph
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birth_place = Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
occupation = Playwright

Rajiv Joseph (born June 16, 1974) is an American playwright and emerging griot.

Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Joseph attended Cleveland Heights High School and graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1996 with a B.A. in Creative Writing.

Following graduation Joseph joined the Peace Corps, serving three years in the West African Republic of Senegal. [http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=26573 Vineyard Presents Paula Vogel Award To Rajiv Joseph (BroadwayWorld.com) ] ]

Joseph earned a Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2004. He currently teaches Essay Writing at New York University.

Theatrical credits

Joseph's first production, "Huck & Holden", debuted at the Cherry Lane Theatre in 2005. [ [http://www.offoffonline.com/archives.php?id=604 offoffonline - off-off-Broadway reviews, listings, and more ] ] The play also had a West Coast run at the Black Dahlia Theater in Los Angeles the following year.

"All This Intimacy" premiered at New York's McGinn/Cazale Theater in 2006. [ [http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/07/28/theater/reviews/28inti.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1213326130-d8SmMAsp3LJFAIROU3N7Fg All This Intimacy - Review - Theater - New York Times ] ] The TBG Theater featured Joseph's re-imagining of "The Leopard and the Fox" in 2007. [ [http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/theater/reviews/31leop.html The Leopard and the Fox - Review - Theater - New York Times ] ]

Joseph returned to the Upper West Side in the summer of 2008 for Second Stage Theatre's premiere of "Animals Out of Paper". [ [http://www.2st.com/seasonShow.php?show=2] ]

Joseph's upcoming productions include "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo", directed by Moisés Kaufman, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, California (May 2009). [ [http://www.centertheatregroup.org/tickets/productiondetail.aspx?id=6746 Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo | May 10 - June 7, 2009 | Kirk Douglas Theatre | Los Angeles | Center Theatre Group ] ]

Awards

In 2008, Joseph was awarded the Vineyard Theatre's Paula Vogel Award given to emerging playwrights. [ [http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/13392 Rajiv Joseph Wins Paula Vogel Playwriting Award: Theater News on TheaterMania.com ] ]

Notable Quotations

"The need to tell a very interesting and compelling story makes certain then that my plays are not in the least bit autobiographical." Rajiv Joseph, 2008 [ [http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/07/theater/crease-patterns-rajiv-josephs-animals-out-of-paper Crease Patterns: Rajiv Joseph's "Animals Out of Paper" - The Brooklyn Rail ] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.thedahlia.com/index.php?id=58&entityType=HTML&version=1 Huck & Holden information]
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15479962 NPR story, Play Connects Pakistan's Past and Present, October 20, 2007]


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