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David Fishelson

April 25, 2024

David J. Fishelson (born July 24, 1956) is an American producer, playwright, and director for film, theatre, television and radio,[2] based in Manhattan since 1982.[3] He is best known for being the lead producer of Golda's Balcony,[4] the longest-running one-woman show in Broadway history (2003–05)—which he also produced as a feature motion picture, Golda's Balcony (2019 film), that was popular in over 75 film festivals in 2019-20)[5][6]—as well as being the founder/producer of Manhattan Ensemble Theatre, an award-winning[7][8][9][10] Off-Broadway theatre company located in SoHo, New York City.[11] As a filmmaker, his work has been broadcast on PBS,[12] exhibited theatrically,[13] and selected for 87 international film festivals (winning at 30).[14][15][5] As a theatre producer and playwright (both on Broadway and off), his work has garnered 31 nominations (winning 11) from the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Obie, Drama League, Lortel, Blackburn Prize and Touring Broadway awards organizations, while landing on Time Out NY's year-end "Best in Theatre" list on 4 different occasions.[8][9][10][16][17][18][19][20][21]

David Fishelson
Fishelson outside Golda's Balcony on Broadway, 2005.
Born (1956-07-24) July 24, 1956 (age 67)[1]
Wooster, Ohio, US
NationalityAmerican
EducationAndover (1974)
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison (BA, 1978)
Occupation(s)Theatre producer, playwright, film director
Years active1982–present
SpouseErana Kratounis (1992–present)
Children2

Early life edit

Fishelson was born in Wooster, Ohio to a Jewish family.[1][22] His mother, Julia Fishelson (née Amster, 1924–2013), was a women's shelter activist and art center founder,[23] and his father Joseph E. Fishelson (1914–1991) was an entrepreneur, inventor and college professor.[22][24][25][26] David Fishelson attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts (class of 1974), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (class of 1978) — where his mentor was film scholar David Bordwell[1][22][27] — before attending one year of graduate school at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle (1978–79).[2] In Paris, in 1978, he met Zoe Zinman, who would become his collaborator on the feature film City News (1983).[2][12] After Paris, he moved to New York City in 1979.[2][22]

Career edit

The eighties, City News, PBS' American Playhouse edit

 
Fishelson at the opening of City News, NYC, Oct. 1983.

From 1979 to 1983, Fishelson worked as a production assistant in the film and television industry in New York, while writing and directing the feature film City News with Zinman.[1][12] Shot on a small budget,[3][12] City News found success in 1983-4 by being selected for the Film Festivals of Atlanta, Edinburgh, Houston, Munich, Florence, Athens, Santa Fe, Seattle, Vancouver, Dallas, Göteborg and Antwerp[14] — winning "Best Dramatic Film" at Atlanta, "Best Low-Budget Feature" at Houston, and "Best Feature (Narrative)" at Athens.[15][28] After its tour of festivals, City News was exhibited in U.S. theaters by film distributor Cinecom Pictures,[13][29] and was nationally broadcast on the third season (1984) of the PBS television series American Playhouse.[12][30][31][32] By 1989, City News had been curated for the permanent collection of the Museum of Television & Radio, as well as listed in the American Film Institute's Catalog of Feature Films.[15][33]

The nineties, Cocteau Rep, NPR, plays published edit

 
(left to right:) Robert Prosky and Joseph McKenna in Fishelson's adaptation of The Golem at Manhattan Ensemble Theatre, 2002

In 1989, Fishelson joined the staff of the Off-Broadway repertory theatre company Jean Cocteau Repertory[2][34] (a.k.a. "The Cocteau", founded 1973), located on the Bowery (NYC) at the Bouwerie Lane Theatre. Fishelson was the Cocteau's executive director from 1989–1992, its associate artistic director from 1992–1994, and a resident director there from 1994–1997, where he wrote and directed dramatizations of two novels by Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov.[2] Following reviews in The New York Times,[35][36] both plays were published by Dramatists Play Service (1995).[37] In 1994 and 1997, they were broadcast as radio plays – with Fishelson directing both – on the NPR series National Public Radio Playhouse, starring Ed Asner, Sharon Gless and Harry Hamlin among others.[2][38] Both dramatizations remain in circulation (in written and audio/radio drama format),[37][38] and both continue to be produced worldwide, including (in the 2000s) runs at Copenhagen's Royal Danish Theatre (2006), as well as the Aarhus Theatre (2007).[39][40] Following both plays' publication, Fishelson became a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.[41]

The 2000s and 2010s, MET, Hank and Golda, Broadway and touring, 9 Parts, Golda as film edit

In 1999, Fishelson founded his own theater company – the nonprofit, 140-seat, Off-Broadway "Manhattan Ensemble Theatre" ("MET") — with a stated mission "to create new theatrical adaptations of stories found in fiction, journalism, film, biography and memoir."[11][42] From 1999–2007, Fishelson's MET featured several well-known stars in its productions, including Jim Parsons (CBS's The Big Bang Theory),[43] Mireille Enos (AMC's The Killing),[44] Robert Prosky (NBC's Hill Street Blues),[45] Valerie Harper (CBS's The Mary Tyler Moore Show),[46] and Tovah Feldshuh (NBC's Holocaust).[47] Among Fishelson's nine shows from 1999–2007 were two of his own plays: an adaptation of the Yiddish play The Golem; and his dramatization of Franz Kafka's unfinished novel The Castle. For the latter, Fishelson was nominated in 2002 for "Best Off-Broadway Play" by the Outer Critics Circle, as well as for "Best Play" by the Drama League (each time as writer and producer).[18][48][49][50] With the publication of The Golem and The Castle in 2003, Fishelson had four published plays to his name.[51][52]

 
(left to right:) Grant Varjas, Raynor Scheine, Jim Parsons and William Atherton in Fishelson's adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Castle at Manhattan Ensemble Theatre, 2002.

Fishelson's 2003–4 season saw frequent transfers of his shows from MET's 140-seat, SoHo-based home, as described in Playbill:

With Golda's Balcony (which opened at the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway on Oct. 15), MET has two hits based on the lives of renowned historical figures. Its first offering this season, Hank Williams: Lost Highway, about the troubled country singer and composer, was hailed and quickly transferred following an extended run. It is currently playing the Little Shubert Off-Broadway. (In fact, the runaway success of MET's first two shows caused the nonprofit to postpone its third selection until the (2004–05) season.)[53]

Before transferring, Lost Highway earned positive reviews in the New York press[54] and multiple theatre award nominations, including two for Fishelson in the "Best Musical" and "Best Off-Broadway Musical" categories.[55][56] Rolling Stone critic and editor Anthony DeCurtis wrote "I was genuinely surprised, even stunned by [MET's version of] Hank Williams: Lost Highway.... a rare achievement in any musical theater that I've ever seen”;[57] while Jeremy McCarter of New York Magazine called Fishelson's production "electrifying", "the most successful jukebox musical I've seen," and "New York's most exciting new musical since Urinetown."[58][59][60]

Fishelson's three subsequent mountings of Golda's Balcony, the one-woman show about Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, earned nominations and awards in each of its manifestations, including Off-Broadway (a 4-month sold-out run at the MET SoHo space),[8][61] on Broadway (starring Tovah Feldshuh),[53][62] and the 9-month "National Tour" of the U.S. and Canada (starring Valerie Harper).[46][63] The Off-Broadway production earned a Drama League "Best Play" nomination for Fishelson (as producer);[18] the Broadway production earned a 2004 Tony Award nomination for "Best Actress" for Feldshuh,[16] and went on to become the longest-running one-woman show in Broadway history;[6] while the National Tour won Fishelson the 2006 "Best Play" Touring Broadway Award from the Broadway League (shared with playwright William Gibson).[10] After lead producing both the Broadway show and its tour, Fishelson was invited to become a Tony Award voter, a status he retains to the present day.[14] Critic John Simon, in his New York Magazine review of the Broadway version, wrote that "Golda's Balcony is the perfect merging of playwright, actress and character."[64]

 
Jason Petty as Hank Williams in Lost Highway at Manhattan Ensemble Theatre, 2002

Fishelson's final production in the MET space was Heather Raffo's 9 Parts of Desire, winner of the 2005 Lortel Award for "Best Solo Production" (shared by Fishelson and Raffo), and recipient of a 2005 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for "Best English Language Play Written by a Woman".[9][19] 9 Parts of Desire had a 9-month sold-out run from 2004–5,[65] and earned MET some of its more positive reviews – with John Lahr in The New Yorker calling it "an example of how art can remake the world," and Charles Isherwood in The New York Times calling it an "impassioned theatrical documentary about contemporary Iraqi women[,] marked by vivid, memorable details."[66][67] Following its run at MET, Fishelson arranged for further productions of 9 Parts at five of the larger LORT theaters in the U.S.[68][69] — including Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, Los Angeles' Geffen Playhouse, Philadelphia's Wilma Theater, and D.C.'s Arena Stage — through the fall of 2006.[70][71][72][73][74]

In 2019-20, Fishelson and MET produced and distributed the feature film Golda's Balcony (2019 film) which went on to win 21 “Audience Favorite” awards at 75 international film festivals in 2019-20.[5][20][6]

Producing, directing, and writing credits edit

Producing

  • City News (1983, feature film/PBS, YouTube)[75]
  • Golda's Balcony (2019 film) (2019–20, feature film)
  • The Vanek Plays (Havel) (1992, Off-Broadway play)[76]
  • The Idiot (1992-3, Off-Broadway play)
  • The Brothers Karamazov (1994, Off-Broadway play)
  • The Idiot (2001, Off-Broadway play)
  • The Castle (2002, Off-Broadway play)
  • The Golem (2002, Off-Broadway play)
  • Death in Venice (2002, Off-Broadway play)
  • Hank Williams: Lost Highway (2002-3, Off-Broadway play)
 
(left to right): Fishelson, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Tovah Feldshuh and Scott Schwartz at Sardi's, after a Broadway performance of Golda's Balcony, October 2004.
  • Golda's Balcony (2003, Off-Broadway play)
  • Golda's Balcony (2003-5, Broadway play)
  • 9 Parts of Desire (2004-5, Off-Broadway play)
  • Golda's Balcony (2005-6, National Broadway tour of U.S. and Canada)
  • 9 Parts of Desire (2005-6, National Regional tour of LORT Theaters in the U.S.)

Directing

  • City News (1983, feature film/PBS, w/Zoe Zinman, YouTube)
  • The Vanek Plays (Havel) (1992, Off-Broadway play)
  • The Idiot (1992, Off-Broadway play)
  • The Brothers Karamazov (1994, Off-Broadway play)
  • The Gospel Truth (1995, television episode of "City Arts", WNET-TV ch. 13)[77][78]
  • The Brothers Karamazov (1994, NPR radio play)
  • The Idiot (1997, NPR radio play)
  • The Idiot (2001, Off-Broadway play)

Writing

  • City News (1983, screenplay (with Zoe Zinman), feature film/PBS, YouTube)
  • The Idiot (drama, published 1995)
  • The Brothers Karamazov (drama, published 1995)
  • The Castle (drama, with Aaron Leichter, published 2002)
  • The Golem (drama, published 2002)

Awards and nominations edit

 
9 Parts of Desire: produced (and poster designed) by Fishelson at Manhattan Ensemble Theatre, 2005

As a writer and producer for theatre, Fishelson individually has earned 11 nominations (winning 6),[21] while his producing of the feature films City News and Golda's Balcony (2019 film) have respectively won 3 Festival awards and 21 “Best Feature” awards at various international film festivals in 2019-20.[5][6]

  • 2006 Broadway Touring Award for Best Play, Golda's Balcony National Tour (Producer)
  • 2005 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Solo Production, 9 Parts of Desire (Producer)
  • 2004 Time Out Best in Theater: 9 Parts of Desire (Producer)
  • 2003 Lucille Lortel Nomination for Best Musical, Hank Williams: Lost Highway (Producer)
  • 2003 Outer Critics Circle Nomination for Best Off-Broadway Musical, Hank Williams: Lost Highway (Producer)
  • 2003 Time Out Best in Theater: Hank Williams: Lost Highway (Producer)
  • 2003 Time Out Best in Theater: Golda's Balcony (Producer)
  • 2003 Drama League Nomination for Best Play, Golda's Balcony (Producer)
  • 2002 Drama League Nomination for Best Play, The Castle (Writer and producer)
  • 2002 Outer Critics Circle Nomination for Best Off-Broadway Play, The Castle (Writer and producer)
  • 2002 Time Out Best in Theater: Death in Venice (Producer)
  • 1983 Atlanta Film Festival: Winner, "Best Dramatic Film", City News (Co-writer, producer, director)
  • 1983 Houston Int'l Film Festival: Winner, "Best Low-Budget Feature", City News (Co-writer, producer, director)
  • 1983 Athens (OH) Film Festival: Winner, "Best Feature (Narrative)", City News (Co-writer, producer, director)

Personal life edit

Fishelson is a member of The Dramatists Guild, a Tony voter, and an occasional lecturer in theatre producing, nonprofit management, and playwriting.[77] His future, stated projects for the theatre include an adaptation of a "well-known French New Wave film for the stage", and "an original play about the Holocaust called The Hamlet Syndrome". He lives in Manhattan with his wife, and has two adult children.

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david, fishelson, david, fishelson, born, july, 1956, american, producer, playwright, director, film, theatre, television, radio, based, manhattan, since, 1982, best, known, being, lead, producer, golda, balcony, longest, running, woman, show, broadway, histor. David J Fishelson born July 24 1956 is an American producer playwright and director for film theatre television and radio 2 based in Manhattan since 1982 3 He is best known for being the lead producer of Golda s Balcony 4 the longest running one woman show in Broadway history 2003 05 which he also produced as a feature motion picture Golda s Balcony 2019 film that was popular in over 75 film festivals in 2019 20 5 6 as well as being the founder producer of Manhattan Ensemble Theatre an award winning 7 8 9 10 Off Broadway theatre company located in SoHo New York City 11 As a filmmaker his work has been broadcast on PBS 12 exhibited theatrically 13 and selected for 87 international film festivals winning at 30 14 15 5 As a theatre producer and playwright both on Broadway and off his work has garnered 31 nominations winning 11 from the Tony Drama Desk Outer Critics Circle Obie Drama League Lortel Blackburn Prize and Touring Broadway awards organizations while landing on Time Out NY s year end Best in Theatre list on 4 different occasions 8 9 10 16 17 18 19 20 21 David FishelsonFishelson outside Golda s Balcony on Broadway 2005 Born 1956 07 24 July 24 1956 age 67 1 Wooster Ohio USNationalityAmericanEducationAndover 1974 Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin Madison BA 1978 Occupation s Theatre producer playwright film directorYears active1982 presentSpouseErana Kratounis 1992 present Children2 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 The eighties City News PBS American Playhouse 2 2 The nineties Cocteau Rep NPR plays published 2 3 The 2000s and 2010s MET Hank and Golda Broadway and touring 9 Parts Golda as film 3 Producing directing and writing credits 4 Awards and nominations 5 Personal life 6 References 7 External linksEarly life editFishelson was born in Wooster Ohio to a Jewish family 1 22 His mother Julia Fishelson nee Amster 1924 2013 was a women s shelter activist and art center founder 23 and his father Joseph E Fishelson 1914 1991 was an entrepreneur inventor and college professor 22 24 25 26 David Fishelson attended Phillips Academy in Andover Massachusetts class of 1974 and the University of Wisconsin Madison class of 1978 where his mentor was film scholar David Bordwell 1 22 27 before attending one year of graduate school at the University of Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle 1978 79 2 In Paris in 1978 he met Zoe Zinman who would become his collaborator on the feature film City News 1983 2 12 After Paris he moved to New York City in 1979 2 22 Career editThe eighties City News PBS American Playhouse edit nbsp Fishelson at the opening of City News NYC Oct 1983 From 1979 to 1983 Fishelson worked as a production assistant in the film and television industry in New York while writing and directing the feature film City News with Zinman 1 12 Shot on a small budget 3 12 City News found success in 1983 4 by being selected for the Film Festivals of Atlanta Edinburgh Houston Munich Florence Athens Santa Fe Seattle Vancouver Dallas Goteborg and Antwerp 14 winning Best Dramatic Film at Atlanta Best Low Budget Feature at Houston and Best Feature Narrative at Athens 15 28 After its tour of festivals City News was exhibited in U S theaters by film distributor Cinecom Pictures 13 29 and was nationally broadcast on the third season 1984 of the PBS television series American Playhouse 12 30 31 32 By 1989 City News had been curated for the permanent collection of the Museum of Television amp Radio as well as listed in the American Film Institute s Catalog of Feature Films 15 33 The nineties Cocteau Rep NPR plays published edit nbsp left to right Robert Prosky and Joseph McKenna in Fishelson s adaptation of The Golem at Manhattan Ensemble Theatre 2002 In 1989 Fishelson joined the staff of the Off Broadway repertory theatre company Jean Cocteau Repertory 2 34 a k a The Cocteau founded 1973 located on the Bowery NYC at the Bouwerie Lane Theatre Fishelson was the Cocteau s executive director from 1989 1992 its associate artistic director from 1992 1994 and a resident director there from 1994 1997 where he wrote and directed dramatizations of two novels by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov 2 Following reviews in The New York Times 35 36 both plays were published by Dramatists Play Service 1995 37 In 1994 and 1997 they were broadcast as radio plays with Fishelson directing both on the NPR series National Public Radio Playhouse starring Ed Asner Sharon Gless and Harry Hamlin among others 2 38 Both dramatizations remain in circulation in written and audio radio drama format 37 38 and both continue to be produced worldwide including in the 2000s runs at Copenhagen s Royal Danish Theatre 2006 as well as the Aarhus Theatre 2007 39 40 Following both plays publication Fishelson became a member of the Dramatists Guild of America 41 The 2000s and 2010s MET Hank and Golda Broadway and touring 9 Parts Golda as film edit In 1999 Fishelson founded his own theater company the nonprofit 140 seat Off Broadway Manhattan Ensemble Theatre MET with a stated mission to create new theatrical adaptations of stories found in fiction journalism film biography and memoir 11 42 From 1999 2007 Fishelson s MET featured several well known stars in its productions including Jim Parsons CBS s The Big Bang Theory 43 Mireille Enos AMC s The Killing 44 Robert Prosky NBC s Hill Street Blues 45 Valerie Harper CBS s The Mary Tyler Moore Show 46 and Tovah Feldshuh NBC s Holocaust 47 Among Fishelson s nine shows from 1999 2007 were two of his own plays an adaptation of the Yiddish play The Golem and his dramatization of Franz Kafka s unfinished novel The Castle For the latter Fishelson was nominated in 2002 for Best Off Broadway Play by the Outer Critics Circle as well as for Best Play by the Drama League each time as writer and producer 18 48 49 50 With the publication of The Golem and The Castle in 2003 Fishelson had four published plays to his name 51 52 nbsp left to right Grant Varjas Raynor Scheine Jim Parsons and William Atherton in Fishelson s adaptation of Franz Kafka s The Castle at Manhattan Ensemble Theatre 2002 Fishelson s 2003 4 season saw frequent transfers of his shows from MET s 140 seat SoHo based home as described in Playbill With Golda s Balcony which opened at the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway on Oct 15 MET has two hits based on the lives of renowned historical figures Its first offering this season Hank Williams Lost Highway about the troubled country singer and composer was hailed and quickly transferred following an extended run It is currently playing the Little Shubert Off Broadway In fact the runaway success of MET s first two shows caused the nonprofit to postpone its third selection until the 2004 05 season 53 Before transferring Lost Highway earned positive reviews in the New York press 54 and multiple theatre award nominations including two for Fishelson in the Best Musical and Best Off Broadway Musical categories 55 56 Rolling Stone critic and editor Anthony DeCurtis wrote I was genuinely surprised even stunned by MET s version of Hank Williams Lost Highway a rare achievement in any musical theater that I ve ever seen 57 while Jeremy McCarter of New York Magazine called Fishelson s production electrifying the most successful jukebox musical I ve seen and New York s most exciting new musical since Urinetown 58 59 60 Fishelson s three subsequent mountings of Golda s Balcony the one woman show about Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir earned nominations and awards in each of its manifestations including Off Broadway a 4 month sold out run at the MET SoHo space 8 61 on Broadway starring Tovah Feldshuh 53 62 and the 9 month National Tour of the U S and Canada starring Valerie Harper 46 63 The Off Broadway production earned a Drama League Best Play nomination for Fishelson as producer 18 the Broadway production earned a 2004 Tony Award nomination for Best Actress for Feldshuh 16 and went on to become the longest running one woman show in Broadway history 6 while the National Tour won Fishelson the 2006 Best Play Touring Broadway Award from the Broadway League shared with playwright William Gibson 10 After lead producing both the Broadway show and its tour Fishelson was invited to become a Tony Award voter a status he retains to the present day 14 Critic John Simon in his New York Magazine review of the Broadway version wrote that Golda s Balcony is the perfect merging of playwright actress and character 64 nbsp Jason Petty as Hank Williams in Lost Highway at Manhattan Ensemble Theatre 2002 Fishelson s final production in the MET space was Heather Raffo s 9 Parts of Desire winner of the 2005 Lortel Award for Best Solo Production shared by Fishelson and Raffo and recipient of a 2005 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for Best English Language Play Written by a Woman 9 19 9 Parts of Desire had a 9 month sold out run from 2004 5 65 and earned MET some of its more positive reviews with John Lahr in The New Yorker calling it an example of how art can remake the world and Charles Isherwood in The New York Times calling it an impassioned theatrical documentary about contemporary Iraqi women marked by vivid memorable details 66 67 Following its run at MET Fishelson arranged for further productions of 9 Parts at five of the larger LORT theaters in the U S 68 69 including Berkeley Rep Seattle Rep Los Angeles Geffen Playhouse Philadelphia s Wilma Theater and D C s Arena Stage through the fall of 2006 70 71 72 73 74 In 2019 20 Fishelson and MET produced and distributed the feature film Golda s Balcony 2019 film which went on to win 21 Audience Favorite awards at 75 international film festivals in 2019 20 5 20 6 Producing directing and writing credits editProducing City News 1983 feature film PBS YouTube 75 Golda s Balcony 2019 film 2019 20 feature film The Vanek Plays Havel 1992 Off Broadway play 76 The Idiot 1992 3 Off Broadway play The Brothers Karamazov 1994 Off Broadway play The Idiot 2001 Off Broadway play The Castle 2002 Off Broadway play The Golem 2002 Off Broadway play Death in Venice 2002 Off Broadway play Hank Williams Lost Highway 2002 3 Off Broadway play nbsp left to right Fishelson former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak Tovah Feldshuh and Scott Schwartz at Sardi s after a Broadway performance of Golda s Balcony October 2004 Golda s Balcony 2003 Off Broadway play Golda s Balcony 2003 5 Broadway play 9 Parts of Desire 2004 5 Off Broadway play Golda s Balcony 2005 6 National Broadway tour of U S and Canada 9 Parts of Desire 2005 6 National Regional tour of LORT Theaters in the U S Directing City News 1983 feature film PBS w Zoe Zinman YouTube The Vanek Plays Havel 1992 Off Broadway play The Idiot 1992 Off Broadway play The Brothers Karamazov 1994 Off Broadway play The Gospel Truth 1995 television episode of City Arts WNET TV ch 13 77 78 The Brothers Karamazov 1994 NPR radio play The Idiot 1997 NPR radio play The Idiot 2001 Off Broadway play Writing City News 1983 screenplay with Zoe Zinman feature film PBS YouTube The Idiot drama published 1995 The Brothers Karamazov drama published 1995 The Castle drama with Aaron Leichter published 2002 The Golem drama published 2002 Awards and nominations edit nbsp 9 Parts of Desire produced and poster designed by Fishelson at Manhattan Ensemble Theatre 2005 As a writer and producer for theatre Fishelson individually has earned 11 nominations winning 6 21 while his producing of the feature films City News and Golda s Balcony 2019 film have respectively won 3 Festival awards and 21 Best Feature awards at various international film festivals in 2019 20 5 6 2006 Broadway Touring Award for Best Play Golda s Balcony National Tour Producer 2005 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Solo Production 9 Parts of Desire Producer 2004 Time Out Best in Theater 9 Parts of Desire Producer 2003 Lucille Lortel Nomination for Best Musical Hank Williams Lost Highway Producer 2003 Outer Critics Circle Nomination for Best Off Broadway Musical Hank Williams Lost Highway Producer 2003 Time Out Best in Theater Hank Williams Lost Highway Producer 2003 Time Out Best in Theater Golda s Balcony Producer 2003 Drama League Nomination for Best Play Golda s Balcony Producer 2002 Drama League Nomination for Best Play The Castle Writer and producer 2002 Outer Critics Circle Nomination for Best Off Broadway Play The Castle Writer and producer 2002 Time Out Best in Theater Death in Venice Producer 1983 Atlanta Film Festival Winner Best Dramatic Film City News Co writer producer director 1983 Houston Int l Film Festival Winner Best Low Budget Feature City News Co writer producer director 1983 Athens OH Film Festival Winner Best Feature Narrative City News Co writer producer director Personal life editFishelson is a member of The Dramatists Guild a Tony voter and an occasional lecturer in theatre producing nonprofit management and playwriting 77 His future stated projects for the theatre include an adaptation of a well known French New Wave film for the stage and an original play about the Holocaust called The Hamlet Syndrome He lives in Manhattan with his wife and has two adult children References edit a b c d Tallmer Jerry January 28 1994 Fishelson s feverish Brothers K at Cocteau Backstage Archived from the original on August 26 2013 Retrieved March 20 2013 a b c d e f g Who s Who in the Cast Broadway Playbill Golda s Balcony October 15 2003 Retrieved June 2 2013 a b Cohn Lawrence December 29 1982 City News Impressive Indie feature Variety Film Reviews Opening Night The Helen Hayes Theatre Broadway Playbill Golda s Balcony October 15 2003 p 1 Retrieved June 2 2013 a b c d Tovah Feldshuh Golda s Balcony The Film September 1 2019 Retrieved November 28 2019 a b c d Simonson Robert September 23 2004 Golda s Balcony Becomes Longest Running One Woman Show in Bway History Oct 3 Playbill Retrieved June 2 2013 Obies Off Broadway s Highest Honor 2003 Award Winners Village Voice Archived from the original on May 18 2013 Retrieved August 20 2013 a b c 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