![]() ![]() Considered one of the greatest films of all time, it was one of the first 25 films selected by the Library of Congress to be included in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film premiered in New York City on October 3, 1941, and was nominated for three Academy Awards. A San Francisco private detective deals with three unscrupulous adventurers, all seeking a jewel-encrusted falcon statuette. Gladys George, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet co-star, with the last appearing in his film debut. It stars Humphrey Bogart as private investigator Sam Spade and Mary Astor as his femme fatale client. John was asked to and now serves as a Dramatists Guild Ambassador for Eastern New England.The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 American film noir written and directed by John Huston in his directorial debut, based on the 1930 novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett and indebted to the 1931 movie of the same name. The Depot presented a reading and discussion of Concordance. ![]() Oracle Performing Arts presented Noise as part of the La Jolla Playhouse's Without Walls Festival. Rising Sophomore, a play written for zoom, was part of the Quaranstream Festival and the Taphouse Theatre Shelter-in-Place Festival.Ĭore Artist Ensemble in NYC presented The Opposite of Monday, a piece originally part of Write On's evening of readings at Boston Playwrights Theatre. The Dobler Effect was produced by Centastage and directed by Joe Antoun for the 2020 Boston Theater Marathon. Noir-Man is based on John's play The Maltese Walter. It was also presented in Barrigton Stage's 10 x 10 Festival and in multiple other venues around the country, including Little Fish Theatre's Pick of the Vine Festival in San Pedro, CA.īritish film company Asylum Giant premiered Noir-Man in 2019. It is slated for three production in 2020, in Texas, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.Ĭlosing Doors was the winner of the 2020 Honegger Prize for short works in the Firehouse Center for the Arts New Works Festival, and was named Best Play at the North Park Playwrights Festival in San Diego. The play, which was nominated for the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Script, also had a two-week run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2019, produced by YASPLZ, LLC and directed again by Joe Antoun. Noir Hamlet, developed at Write On, was presented by Centastage in 2018, directed by Joe Antoun. It was also a PlayLab selection of the Great Plains Theater Conference in 2019. In 2019, it was named a Gold Prize winner in the Clauder Competition for New England playwrights by Portland Stage, where it had a week-long workshop. Queen of Sad Mischance, developed at Write On, was one of four national winners of the New American Voices Festival for 2020. John was the recipient of an Artist Fellowship in Dramatic Writing for 2019-2020 by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, based on sections of a new full-length play, Sarai's Knife. ![]() Practitioners and non-profit theater organizations around Greater Boston. This year’s festival is a benefit for the Theatre Community Benevolent Fund ( which provides financial relief to individual theater
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