Joshua Ravetch
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Joshua Ravetch is an American playwright, screenwriter and stage director born in Los Angeles, California, who co-created and directed Carrie Fisher's one-woman show Wishful Drinking, which had a successful run on Broadway. He also co-wrote and directed Dick Van Dyke in his first-ever one man show, Step in Time! A Musical Memoir, which premiered at The Geffen Playhouse.
Career[]
Ravetch's award-winning play, Chasing Mem'ries: A Different Kind of Musical received the Edgerton New Play Award and was nominated for the Ovation. The play starred Tyne Daly and Robert Forster and world premiered at The Geffen Playhouse in 2017. Ravetch collaborated with lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman with music by Marvin Hamlisch, Michel Legrand and Johnny Mandel.
Ravetch also wrote and directed , which was performed at The Pasadena Playhouse with Academy Award winner Shirley Jones in the title role (after receiving a workshop production at the NoHo Arts Center Theatre). The play came on the heels of the whimsical project Ravetch co-wrote with stage and screen icon Dick Van Dyke, .[1] Ravetch directed the world premiere production of the play at The Geffen Playhouse with Van Dyke starring.
Perhaps Ravetch is most known for collaborated with actress/writer Carrie Fisher, and co-creating and directing her in Wishful Drinking, Fisher's one-woman-show at Los Angeles' Geffen Playhouse.[2] It enjoyed an extended run on Broadway at Studio 54 and was adapted into a special for HBO.
Also at The Geffen Playhouse, Ravetch wrote and directed a workshop production of Writer's Cramp with Oscar nominee Robert Forster, Emmy winner and Tony nominee Holland Taylor, and Tony nominee Douglas Sills. Other writing credits include a play in one act which was performed at the NoHo Arts Theatre and was directed by Star Trek veteran Jonathan Frakes.
Ravetch also directed Clifford Odets' The Big Knife; Thomas Babe's ; John Patrick's and Ira Levin's Deathtrap which garnered five Drama-Logue Awards including awards for Director and Production.
Ravetch's other playwriting credits include at Los Angeles' Coast Playhouse starring Robert Forster, which won the coveted Odets Award. Forster also starred in workshop productions of Ravetch's plays with Olympia Dukakis and with Brooke Shields.
His other plays include with Stefanie Powers at the NoHo Arts Center, and he co-wrote , Powers' one-woman show which opened at the Orange County Performing Arts Centre. Also at The Coast Playhouse, Ravetch directed Bart Baker's play, , with actress/supermodel Beverly Johnson. Johnson was nominated for the NAACP Image award for her performance.
Ravetch's television credits include CBS' Joan of Arcadia, for TNT, for Warner Brothers, and for Laura Ziskin Productions.
Stage[]
Year | Title | Position | Notes |
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2021 | Chasing More Mem'ries; Another Kind of Musical. (Second in the
Chasing Mem'ries cycle.) |
Writer/Director | Lyricists, Alan & Marilyn Bergman collaborating. |
2020 | One November Yankee | Writer/Director | 59e59th Street Theatre, Off Broadway, New York, NY |
2019 | One November Yankee | Writer/Director | Delaware Theatre Company starring Harry Hamlin and Stefanie Powers: Preproduction |
2019 | Beverly Johnson: Naked! | Writer/Director | West Hollywood Library Theatre: Workshop production starring supermodel, Beverly Johnson |
2017 | Chasing Mem'ries: A Different Kind of Musical | Writer/Director | The Geffen Playhouse starring Tyne Daly and Robert Forster. Recipient of the Edgerton New Play Award. |
2016 | Wishful Drinking Strikes Back | Co-Creator/Director | The Geffen Playhouse Commission to star Carrie Fisher (Never performed) |
2016 | Go Figure: The Randy Gardner Story | Writer/Director | Starring Olympic Champions Randy Gardner with Dorothy Hamill and Tai Babilonia at the NoHo Arts Center in Los Angeles and the Delaware Theatre Company in Wilmington, Delaware (2018). |
2015 | Onward: The Diana Nyad Story | Co-Writer/Director | Starring Diana Nyad. |
2014 | One November Yankee | Writer/Director | Starring Loretta Swit and Harry Hamlin. |
2013 | The Light Bulb | Writer | NoHo Arts Center |
2012 | Periscope Up | Writer | Directed by Jonathan Frakes. |
2011 | Step in Time: A Musical Memoir | Writer/Director | The Geffen Playhouse starring Dick Van Dyke. |
2010 | The Astronomer | Writer/Director | Pasadena Playhouse starring Shirley Jones. |
2009 | Writer's Cramp | Writer/Director | The Geffen Playhouse: Workshop Production starring Holland Taylor, Robert Forster, Douglas Sills |
2008 | Beacon | Writer/ Director | Egyptian Arena Theatre: Workshop Production starring Holland Taylor, Brooke Shields, Robert Forster, Kerr Smith. |
2007 | Off Sides | Writer/Director | Egyptian Arena Theatre: Workshop Production starring Olympia Dukakis and Robert Forster. |
2006 | Wishful Drinking | Co-Creator /Director | The Geffen Playhouse starring Carrie Fisher |
2006 | One From the Hart | Director | Orange County Performing Arts Center starring Stefanie Powers |
2002 | The Seagull | Director | Egyptian Arena Theatre |
2000 | Deathtrap | Director | Stella Adler Theatre |
1998 | The Hasty Heart | Director | Glendale Centre Theatre |
1996 | Girders | Writer/Director | The Coast Playhouse |
1995 | The Big Knife | Director | Stella Adler Theatre starring Robert Forster |
1994 | Prayer for my Daughter | Director | The Complex |
1993 | Love Acts | Director | The Coast Playhouse |
References[]
- ^ "Dave Brubeck has surgery". Los Angeles Times. 15 October 2010. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011.
- ^ Gallo, Phil (16 November 2006). "Wishful Drinking". Variety. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011.
- American dramatists and playwrights
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