Playwright: Israel Horovitz

ISRAEL HOROVITZ’s plays have been translated into 38 languages and performed worldwide. Best known plays: Sins of the Mother (premiered at Harlequin Poductions January 2009), Line (now in 38th year Off Broadway), The Indian Wants The Bronx, Rats, Morning, The Primary English Class, The Wakefield Plays, The Widow’s Blind Date, Today I Am A Fountain Pen, Park Your Car In Harvard Yard (which Horovitz has adapted for a film starring Julianne Moore; also revived on stage in Paris and Prague last season), North Shore Fish, Fighting Over Beverley, Lebensraum (a triumph in Paris recently), and My Old Lady (Trés chére Mathilde, which played to SRO audiences last year at Theatre Marigny, Paris, starring Line Renaud and Samuel Labarthe).

Screenplays include Author! Author!, The Strawberry Statement (Prix du Jury, Cannes Film Festival), Sunshine (European Academy Award - Best Screenplay), and EMMY-nominated James Dean. Horovitz wrote, directed and performed the award-winning documentary 3 Weeks After Paradise, shown in the USA on Bravo. He has recently completed new screenplays, The Little Shock and screen-adaptation of The Secret of Mme Bonnard's Bath and My Old Lady. Awards include the OBIE (twice), the Prix de Plaisir du Théâtre, The Prix Italia (for radio plays), The Sony Radio Academy Award (for Man In Snow), The Writers Guild of Canada Best Screenwriter Award, The Christopher Award, the Drama Desk Award, an Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Elliot Norton Prize, a Lifetime Achievement Award from B’Nai Brith, the Literature Prize of Washington College, an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Salem (Massachusetts) State College, Boston Public Library’s Literary Lights Award, the Walker Hancock Prize, and many others.

Mr. Horovitz is Founding Artistic Director of Gloucester Stage, and of the New York Playwrights Lab. He is the father of film-producer Rachael Horovitz, TV producer/director Matthew Horovitz, Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz, and 23-year-old twins, Hannah Horovitz (recent graduate of Vassar College) and Oliver Horovitz (filmmaker, teaching assistant at Harvard College).

Mr. Horovitz teaches a bilingual screenwriting workshop with six screenwriters from la Fémis, France's national film school, and six from Columbia University's Graduate film program. He is married to Gillian Adams-Horovitz, former British National Marathon Champion and Record holder, and former USA Track & Field (Masters) Marathon Champion.

The Horovitz family divides its time among homes in Gloucester, NYC’s Greenwich Village, and London’s Dulwich Village. Mr. Horovitz visits France, frequently, where he often directs French-language productions of his plays. He is the most-produced American playwright in French theatre history.