“Teachers and students in Baltimore city NEED to see this play.”
PUBLICATIONS
The Reflexive Teaching Artist: Collected Wisdom from the Drama/Theatre Field
Review with Catlin Cobb. Teaching Artist Journal AJ 2015
A Soldier of Service
Teaching At-Risk, Juvenile Justice, and the Holocaust.
Teaching Artist Journal, 2010, Vol. 8
Arts Advocacy
Essay on the effects and necessity of arts education in public school education
Published by New Jersey Theatre Alliance, April 2005
A Fiasco of Things
Journals the process of working with abused and neglected girls
Teaching Artist Journal, 2004, Vol. 2 Issue 2
From the Attic, To the Classroom, To the Stage: The Holocaust
Textbook co-authored with Gabriella Weiss, Holocaust Historian.
Published by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and The Bernard Stone Trust Fund, 2001
Desperate to Be Heard, Autobiographical lessons In Struggles, and Growing Up in the Inner City
New York Times, City Section, 1995
AWARDS + RECOGNITIONS
The Applause Awards
New Jersey Theatre Alliance, for artistry and dedication, 2010
Individual Playwriting Fellowship
New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, 2009
Rothschild Foundation
For research and documentation of Holocaust Survivors in Florence, Italy
With Florence International Theatre Company, 2009
Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence
For integration of academic excellence and career achievement in the performing arts
The State University of New York, 2008
Individual Playwriting Fellowship
New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, 2003
Davie Award for Excellence in Playwriting,
Geva Theatre, Rochester New York, June 1991
“GO. Do not wait. This is a powerful piece with amazing actors, stunning storytelling, and a marvelous message that is both social and psychological. This is fascinating and fixating theater at its finest.”
THE REVIEWS
PITZ + JOE
Productions + Credits: Contracted by Warner Bros., Philadelphia Theatre Company (workshop), Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, MA (workshop), GeVa Theatre, Rochester, NY (world premiere), Arizona Repertory Theatre, Tucson, AZ (staged reading), Hudson Theatre, Los Angeles (production), The Redhen, Chicago, IL (production), National Head Injury Foundation (presentation in Washington, DC)
Pitz & Joe toured with Bari Hochwald and Tony Campisi to Head Injury Foundations in Albany and in Washington D.C. for legislators, traumatic brain injured, their families and also neurologists. The talkbacks were incredible and the discussions were so rewarding. James Brady attended in DC, which was in itself an honor. He wrote the letter attached.
COUNT DOWN
Count Down Productions + Credits: The Strand Theatre, Baltimore, MD, 2018 (full production), Women’s Voices Theatre Festival, DC, 2018, Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, New Jersey (full workshop production), Produced by Jane Dubin. Bank Street Theatre, New York City (full production), Finalist for Playwrights First Award, The National Arts Club, NY, NJSCA and Mid Atlantic Individual Playwriting Fellowship, 2009