1. Sarah Miriam Schulman was born on July 28,1958 and is an American novelist, playwright, nonfiction writer, screenwriter, gay activist, and AIDS historian.
18 Facts About Sarah Schulman
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Sarah Schulman holds an endowed chair in nonfiction at Northwestern University and is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities.
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Sarah Schulman is a recipient of the Bill Whitehead Award and the Lambda Literary Award.
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Sarah Schulman attended Hunter College High School, and attended the University of Chicago from 1976 to 1978 but did not graduate.
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Sarah Schulman has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Empire State College in Saratoga Springs, New York.
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Sarah Schulman never sued, but analyzed in Stagestruck the way the musical depicted AIDS and gay people, in contrast to work made by those communities that same year.
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In 2016, Sarah Schulman was named one of Publishers Weeklys 60 Most Underrated Writers.
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Sarah Schulman's activism began in her childhood when she protested the Vietnam War with her mother.
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From 1979 to 1982, Sarah Schulman was a member of the Committee for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization Abuse and participated in an early direct action protest in which she and five others disrupted an anti-abortion hearing in Congress.
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Sarah Schulman was an active member of ACT UP from 1987 to 1992, attending actions at the FDA, NIH, Stop the Church, and was arrested when ACT UP occupied Grand Central Station protesting the First Gulf War.
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On her 1992 book tour for Empathy, Sarah Schulman visited gay bookstores in the South to start chapters.
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In 2009, Sarah Schulman declined an invitation to Tel Aviv University in support of Palestine and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.
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Sarah Schulman is on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace and is faculty advisor to Students for Justice in Palestine at the College of Staten Island.
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Sarah Schulman was an original signatory of the manifesto "Refusing Complicity in Israel's Literary Institutions".
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Sarah Schulman was admitted into the Sundance Theater Lab in 2001 with the play Carson McCullers, based on the life of the 20th century writer.
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Sarah Schulman secured the rights to write an adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer's Enemies, A Love Story, which premiered at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia in 2007, directed by Jiri Ziska starring Morgan Spector.
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Sarah Schulman is co-producer with Jim Hubbard of his feature-length documentary United in Anger: A History of ACT UP which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art on the opening night of Documentary Fortnight on February 16,2012.
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Sarah Schulman played filmmaker Shirley Clarke to Jack Waters' Jason Holliday in Stephen Winter's response to Clarke's 1967 documentary Portrait of Jason, entitled Jason and Shirley, which premiered at BAMcinemaFest in June 2015 and played for a week at the Museum of Modern Art in October 2015.