John Strand

{{Short description|American playwright}}

John Gregory Strand is a contemporary American playwright.{{Cite web |url=https://johnstrandplaywright.com/about/ |url-access= |title=John Gregory Strand |access-date=31 October 2024}} At times he has published under the name "J.G. Strand". Among his plays are Lincolnesque,{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/john-strands-political-comedy-lincolnesque-returns-to-keegan-theatre/2018/09/26/9a0650be-c190-11e8-b338-a3289f6cb742_story.html |url-access= |title=John Strand's Political Comedy 'Lincolnesque' |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=31 October 2024}}{{Cite book |url=https://www.broadwayplaypublishing.com/the-plays/lincolnesque/ |title=Lincolnesque |last1=Strand |first1=John |year= 2008|publisher= Broadway Play Publishing |isbn=9780881453355 |access-date= 31 October 2024}}{{Cite web |url=https://trydersmith.org/theatre/lincolnesque/ |url-access= |title=Lincolnesque by John Strand |last1=Smith |first1=Ryder |author-link1=T. Ryder Smith |access-date=31 October 2024}} Three Nights in Tehran,{{Cite book |url=https://www.broadwayplaypublishing.com/the-plays/three-nights-in-tehran/ |title=Three Nights in Tehran |last1= Strand|first1= John |year=2010 |publisher=Broadway Play Publishing |isbn=9780881454314 |access-date= 31 October 2024}} The Diaries,{{Cite book |url=https://www.dramaticpublishing.com/browse/full-length-plays/the-diaries |url-access= |title=The Diaries |last1=Strand |first1=John |year= |publisher=Dramatic Publishing|isbn=1583422323 |access-date=31 October 2024}} Otabenga,{{Cite book |url=https://www.broadwayplaypublishing.com/the-plays/otabenga/ |last1=Strand|first1=John|title= Otabenga |year=2008 |publisher=Broadway Play Publishing |isbn= 978-0881454031|access-date= 31 October 2024}}{{Cite news |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1994/11/20/onstage-the-selling-of-otabenga/242b059f-101a-4ec6-94c5-a243f3a18d01/ |title=ONSTAGE, THE SELLING OF OTABENGA |last1=Sommers |first1=Pamela |date=20 November 1994 |newspaper= The Washington Post|issn= |access-date= 31 October 2024}} and The Originalist.{{Cite book |url=https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=5928 |title=The Originalist |last1=Strand |first1=John |date=15 March 2019 |publisher=Dramatists Play Service |isbn=978-0822239840 |access-date=31 October 2024}}{{Cite web |url=https://abovethelaw.com/2015/05/atl-theater-review-the-originalist/ |title=ATL Theater Review: The Originalist |last1= Lat|first1=David|author-link1=David Lat |year=2015 |website=Above the Law (ATL) |publisher=Breaking Media |access-date=31 October 2024}}

{{Cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/12/theater/the-originalist-a-new-play-about-justice-antonin-scalia-by-john-strand.html |title=The Originalist, a New Play About Justice Antonin Scalia by John Strand |last1=Liptak |first1=Adam |author-link1=Adam Liptak |date= |year=|work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331|access-date=31 October 2024}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.playbill.com/article/arena-stages-the-originalist-will-air-on-pbs-theater-close-up |title="Arena Stage's The Originalist Will Air on PBS' Theater Close-Up" |last1=McPhee |first1=Ryan |author-link1=|date=6 March 2017 |website= |series= |publisher=Playbill |isbn= |issn= |jfm= |jstor= |lccn= |mr= |oclc= |ol= |osti= |pmc= |pmid= |rfc= |ssrn= |zbl= |id= |access-date=31 October 2024 |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date= |via= |quote= |trans-quote= }}{{cite news |last1=Thompson |first1=Zac |title=The Originalist, a Play About Justice Antonin Scalia, Shows Sympathy for the Devil |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/07/24/the-originalist-a-play-about-justice-antonin-scalia-shows-sympathy-for-the-devil/ |accessdate= |work=The Village Voice}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/theater/ruth-bader-ginsburg-the-originalist-antonin-scalia.html |title=After the Play, a Supreme Encore From Ruth Bader Ginsburg |last1=Collins-Hughes |first1=Laura |date=30 July 2018 |work= The New York Times|issn=|access-date=31 October 2024}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/in-the-originalist-theater-tries-to-interpret-antonin-scalia/388889/ |title=In The Originalist, Theater Tries to Interpret Antonin Scalia |last1=Rosen |first1=Jeffrey |author-link1=Jeffrey Rosen (legal academic) |last2=Epps |first2=Garrett |author-link2=Garrett Epps |date=27 March 2015 |orig-date= |website= |series= |work=The Atlantic|issn= |access-date=31 October 2024}}{{Cite news |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A406153098/GPS?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=687a659b |title=Scalia and the Intern, Punching from Right and Left in The Originalist |last1=Pressley |first1=Nelson |author-link1= |date=20 March 2015 |orig-date= |website= |series= |newspaper=The Washington Post |issn=|access-date=31 October 2014 }}{{Cite web |last=Hsiao |first=Irene |date=21 May 2018 |title=Unoriginal Originalist: A Review of The Originalist at Court Theatre |url=https://www.newcitystage.com/2018/05/21/unoriginal-originalist-a-review-of-the-originalist-at-court-theatre/ |access-date= |website=Newcity Stage |language=en-US}} Tom Walker is an adaption of The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving.{{Cite book |url=https://www.dramaticpublishing.com/tom-walker |title=Tom Walker |last1=Strand |first1=John |publisher=Dramatic Publishing|isbn=9781583421239 |access-date=10 November 2024}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2001/02/05/starting-from-scratch/21d150ea-3a18-4687-ae3e-b033195fb4b4/ |title=Starting from Scratch:'Tom Walker', Dealing with the Devil |last1=Pressley |first1=Nelson |author-link1= |date=5 February 2001 |publisher=The Washington Post |access-date=10 November 2024 }}{{Cite web |url=https://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/souled-to-hell-6350010 |title=Tom Walker |last1=Mangravite |first1=Ronald |author-link1= |date=29 August 2002 |publisher=Miami New Times |access-date=10 November 2024 }}{{Cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-apr-29-ca-57113-story.html |title=An Important Door Opens |last1=Boehm |first1=Mike |author-link1=Mike Boehm |date=29 April 2001 |publisher=Los Angeles Times |access-date=13 December 2024 }} He has also written a number of English-language adaptions of plays written in French: among these are Lovers and Executioners (Antoine Jacob de Montfleury's La Femme Juge et Partie);{{Cite book |url=https://www.dramaticpublishing.com/lovers-and-executioners |title=Lovers and Executioners |last1=Strand |first1=John |date=1999 |publisher=Dramatic Publishing|isbn=0871299100 |access-date=31 October 2024}}The Providence Players of Fairfax: {{YouTube|id=mXUZQ9dNdDQ|title=PPF Lovers and Executioners Promo Video I}}The Providence Players of Fairfax: {{YouTube|id=6df0ThmqR_M|title=PPF Lovers and Executioners Promo Video II}} The Miser (Molière);{{Cite web |url=https://www.abouttheartists.com/productions/11348-the-miser-at-arena-stage-kreeger-theater-1996 |url-access= |title=The Miser |last1= |first1= |access-date= |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date= |via= |quote= |trans-quote= }} Lorenzaccio (Alfred de Musset);{{Cite book |url=https://www.broadwayplaypublishing.com/the-plays/lorenzaccio/ |url-access= |title=Lorenzaccio |last1=Strand |first1=John |author-link1= |year=2007 |publisher=Broadway Play Publishing |isbn=9780881453270 |access-date=31 October 2024}} Hat! (Eugène Labiche's Un Chapeau de Paille d'Italie);{{Cite book |url=https://www.broadwayplaypublishing.com/the-plays/hat-a-vaudeville/ |title=Hat! |last1=Strand |first1=John |author-link1= |year= 2011|publisher=Broadway Play Publishing |isbn=978-0881454666|access-date=1 November 2024}}{{Cite book |url=https://www.stageplays.com/products/hat_a_vaudeville |title=Hat! - A Vaudeville |last1=McCarthy |first1=Dennis|author-link1=Dennis McCarthy (composer)|last2=Strand |first2=John |access-date=1 November 2024}} and Hernani (Victor Hugo).{{Cite book |url=https://www.broadwayplaypublishing.com/the-plays/hernani/ |title=Hernani |last1=Strand |first1=John |author-link1= |year=2013 |orig-date=|series= |publisher=Broadway Play Publishing |at= |language=|isbn=978-0881455236|access-date=31 October 2024}} In 1985 he launched (along with Kathy Acker, Eduard Limonov, and Bernard-Henri Lévy) a Paris-based literary magazine called Paris Exiles.{{Cite web |url=https://lithub.com/an-expats-homebase-how-the-iconic-village-voice-bookshop-in-paris-launched-lit-mags/ |title=An Expat’s Homebase |last1=Hellier |first1=Odile |date=26 September 2024 |year= |website= |series= |publisher= |agency= |location= |page= |pages= |at= |language= |doi= |isbn= |issn= |access-date=13 December 2024}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-09-21-ca-8684-story.html |title=THE THIRD WAVE |last1=Venant |first1=Elizabeth |date=21 September 1986 |year= |website= |series= |publisher=Los Angeles Times |agency= |location= |page= |pages= |at= |language= |doi= |isbn= |issn= |access-date=13 December 2024}} A novel, Commieland, appeared in 2013.{{Cite book |url=https://bradspurgeon.com/2012/06/17/a-village-voice-a-bloomsday-and-a-bit-of-music/ |title=Commieland |last1=Strand |first1=John |publisher=Kiwai Media|year=2013|isbn=1937247058}}