Israel Horovitz was an American playwright, director, actor and co-founder of the Gloucester Stage Company in 1979.
15 Facts About Israel Horovitz
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Israel Horovitz was the founder of the New York Playwrights Lab, and his best-known plays include Line, Park Your Car in Harvard Yard, and The Indian Wants the Bronx.
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Israel Horovitz was born to a Jewish family in Wakefield, Massachusetts, the son of Hazel Rose and Julius Charles Israel Horovitz, a lawyer.
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Israel Horovitz's memoir, Un New-Yorkais a Paris, was published in France in 2011.
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Israel Horovitz wrote more than 70 produced plays, many of which have been translated and performed in more than 30 languages worldwide.
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Israel Horovitz divided his time between the US and France, where he often directed French-language productions of his plays.
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On his 70th birthday, Israel Horovitz was decorated by the French government as Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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Israel Horovitz is the most-produced American playwright in French theatre history.
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In 1979 Israel Horovitz founded the Gloucester Stage Company in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and continued to serve as its artistic director for 28 years.
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Israel Horovitz founded The New York Playwrights Lab in 1975, and served as the NYPL's artistic director.
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Israel Horovitz was co-director of Compagnia Horovitz-Paciotto, an Italian theatre-company that produces Horovitz's plays, exclusively.
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Israel Horovitz had a long-term friendship with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett and often found in Beckett a thematic and stylistic model and inspiration for his own work.
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Israel Horovitz has worked with The Byre Theatre of St Andrews, Scotland.
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Israel Horovitz adapted his stage play My Old Lady for the screen, which he directed in summer, 2013, starring Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott-Thomas and Dominique Pinon.
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Israel Horovitz died on November 9,2020, from cancer in Manhattan.