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Biography:
The artistic director of One Armed Man, Adam Klasfeld is a writer and director drawn to theater that explores suppressed historical narratives and/or new aesthetic ground. Most recently, Adam’s docudrama The Report of My Death, about the once-censored and posthumously published details of Mark Twain's life and work, premiered to widespread critical acclaim in Manhattan on the deck of the Lilac steamship in Summer ‘09 after having been developed in New York, New Jersey, New Mexico and Alaska. Since the premiere, the play was nominated for a 2010 NYIT Award nomination for "Outstanding Solo Performance" for actor Michael Graves, and it has toured widely. He will continue exploring repressed narratives in late-19th century and early 20th century U.S. history in two other plays comprising the "American Folk Trilogy." His surrealistic meditation on a folk hero and union activist, "i dreamed i saw joe hill's lover last night," will be developed in 2010, and his deconstruction of the man behind the American Dream ("Pluck") will be explore the following year.
His drama The Prostitute of Reverie Valley was workshopped at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Alaska before premiering at the 2006 New York International Fringe Festival. His tragicomedy Good Fences Make Good Neighbors received a chashama AREA Award and opened at the 2005 FringeNYC. Adam’s first full-length play Europa’s Child was part of Amphibian Productions’ Spring 2004 New Play Reading Series. As a screenwriter, he’s written the short films La Virgen de la Caridad and Before Dawn and the feature Club Red: The Innocents Abroad.
Adam is also a freelance journalist, who writes regularly for the legal newswire Courthouse News.
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