M.Z. Ribalow, Harry’s Problem
In this program stage, film, and TV actor Cotter Smith reads Harry’s Problem, a short story by M.Z. Ribalow
M.Z. Ribalow’s play Masterpiece has just been published; it is his fourth play in print. His poetry collection Chasing Ghosts will be available this summer, and his novel Peanuts and Crackerjacks will be published in the fall of 2011. He is the founding artistic director of New River.
Cotter Smith is the recipient of four Drama Logue Awards and two Ovation Award nominations as well as the Broadway star of Next Fall, Wendy Wasserstein's An American Daughter, Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize winning How I Learned to Drive, Burn This, Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize winning A Soldier’s Play with Denzel Washington and Samuel Jackson, and many others. Television and film work ranges from his debut 25 years ago as Robert Kennedy in the mini-series Blood Feud, to his role as the President of the United States in the film, X2: X-Men United. He recently appeared on Barry Levinson’s HBO film You Don’t Know Jack with Al Pacino
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New River Dramatists, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, is a not-for-profit project that distinguishes itself in that it is looking for writers to assist, not works to produce. Engaging writers on the strength of their individual talents instead of the potential merit of a single piece, payment of Honoraria to all participants, the absence of casting and the commitment to process first are among many factors that, taken all together, make New River Dramatists unique.
