Association for Jewish Theatre

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The Association for Jewish Theatre is an American cultural organization dedicated to helping its members produce “plays relevant to Jewish life and values.”[1] The Association holds an annual conference. [2] Members include Artistic Directors of theaters devoted to Jewish content, solo performers, and playwrights.

The Association held its first general meeting and first annual Jewish Theatre Festival at Marymount Manhattan College in June, 1980. .[3] The association sees itself as part of the ethnic theater movement, inspired especially by the black and Latino theatre movements. Norman Fedder and Steve Reisner are credited with being the prime movers behind the founding of the AJT. [4] According to the New York Times, the Association had “more than a score of members representing theater groups in the United States and Canada, from Phoenix, Ariz., to Winnipeg, Manitoba” by 1989 and was held to exemplify the “comeback” of explicitly Jewish theater in America. [5]

The organization sponsors yearly conferences, which are at times accompanied by theater festivals. in 2007, the AJT had its first international conference, in Vienna. In 2009, the conference is scheduled for New York, and it will be accompanied by a Festival of Jewish Theater and Ideas. In 2010, the conference will be hosted by Habimah, in Tel Aviv. This conference will also be accompanied by a festival.

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Notes

  1. ^ Jewish Ensemble Theatre
  2. ^ Jewish Ensemble Theatre
  3. ^ Jewish Ensemble Theatre
  4. ^ "Jewish Theatre Festival 1980," by Tina Margolis and Susan Weinacht, The Drama Review: TDR, Vol. 24, No. 3, Jewish Theatre Issue (Sep., 1980), pp. 93-95
  5. ^ “Jewish Theater Is Making a Comeback, by Richard Shepard, March 24, 1989, New York Times [1]
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