Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitzis an American playwright, director, and actor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth31 March 1939
CountryUnited States of America
What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.
carrying man people
People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.
My dream is to have a small company in France.
films says york
My agent in London says all New York films are wonderful if they're really New York films because they're like travelogues.
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If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.
life
I've done nothing with my life but write plays.
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I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.
grew
I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town.
Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place.
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It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.
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I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and Jewish boys from these Massachusetts towns would sit in his car and learn the lessons.
You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.
ask questions
I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.
I have seen dozens upon dozens of productions of 'Lebensraum' in dozens of languages around the globe.