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SHEFFER, ISAIAH Isaiah
Sheffer
Isaiah Sheffer is a founder and artistic director of Symphony Space in New York City,
where his duties include directing the hit literary series Selected Shorts:
A Celebration of the Short Story, now in its twentieth season, and hosting
the public radio series of the same name, heard on NPR stations across the
country. Each year he stages a season of Selected Shorts at the J. Paul
Getty Museum in Los Angeles. He is the creator of Symphony Space's Wall to
Wall marathon concerts, most recently Wall to Wall Richard Rodgers,
and the March 20, 2004, Wall to Wall George Balanchine. Each June 16th
he also directs Symphony Space's annual James Joyce extravaganza, Bloomsday
on Broadway. His writing efforts for screen and stage include Clair de
Lune by the Pale Moonlight, a tapestry of his new translations of French
romantic poets and songs of Gabriel Fauré; a PBS documentary on music in the
12th century; the book and lyrics to the off-Broadway musical The Rise of
David Levinsky (which had its first production at the 92nd Street Y); the
screenplay of the short feature film Pair of Jokers, starring Jerry
Stiller; and the book and lyrics of the off- Broadway musical Yiddle with a
Fiddle, adapted from the classic 1936 film. His newest play is Dreamers
and Demons, about Isaac Bashevis Singer's life and work. Two other plays by
Isaiah Sheffer were premiered at the 92nd Street YA Broadcast Baby, and
his new English version of Sholom Aleichem's Hard to Be a Jew. He is
currently writing the libretto for A More Perfect Union, an opera-ballet
about the 1787 Constitutional Convention that gave us the Electoral College and
so many other wonders.
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