Pippin Parker
{{short description|American playwright and theatre director (born 1969)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Pippin Parker
| image =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|6|22}}
| birth_place = Syracuse, New York, U.S.
| occupation = Playwright, theatre director
| years_active = c. 1986–present
| relatives = Sarah Jessica Parker (sister)
Timothy Britten Parker (brother)
}}
Pippin Parker (born June 22, 1969) is an American playwright and theatre director.[http://www.playbill.com/news/article/115052.html PHOTO CALL: Betrayed Opening Night Party], Playbill {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080217151651/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/115052.html |date=2008-02-17 }} He was formerly dean of The New School for Drama.[http://www.newschool.edu/drama/ The New School for Drama]
Career
Parker is an American playwright and director. He is the former Dean of the School of Writing, Acting, and Directing program at The New School.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newschool.edu/drama/faculty-az/?id=4d6a-6732-4f44-4933|title=Pippin Parker - Director|website=www.newschool.edu|access-date=2017-09-29}}{{cite journal |title=Entrances & Exits |journal=American Theatre |date=September 2011 |volume=28 |issue=7 |page=16 |issn=8750-3255}} He is one of the co-founding members of Naked Angels,{{cite news |last1=Hillbery |first1=Rhonda |title=Actress Finds One Person's Trashy Is Another One's Treasure |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/177339172/?terms=%22Pippin%2BParker%22 |access-date=15 September 2019 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=12 May 1992 |location=Los Angeles, California |page=F11}} a theater company in New York City where he was Artistic director. Along with Nicole Burdette, Frank Pugliese and Kenneth Lonergan, he is a member of a writer's group for dramatic and fiction authors.{{Cite news|url=http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-753-sarah-jessica-parker|title=Episode 753 - Sarah Jessica Parker|work=WTF with Marc Maron Podcast|access-date=2017-09-29}}
His short play A Gift was produced in New York and Los Angeles and a later radio adaptation was featured on NPR’s The Next Big Thing.{{cite book |title=Graduate Programs in the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences 2008 |date=2007 |publisher=Peterson's |page=398}} Naked Angels and New York Stage and Film have both produced his play Assisted Living.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}
His television work includes writing episodes of the animated series The Tick and Doug,{{cite news |title=TV programmers plan variety of more educational shows for kids |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/261219491/?terms=%22Pippin%2BParker%22 |access-date=11 September 2019 |work=The Montgomery Advertiser |agency=Entertainment Wire |date=30 January 1997 |location=Montgomery, Alabama |page=6D}} as well as the CTW educational music show for children, Jam Inn.
He directed the production of George Packer's first play Betrayed at The Culture Project, New York{{cite news |last1=Dziemianowicz |first1=Joe |title=3 casualties of hope in Iraq |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/411153000/?terms=%22Pippin%2BParker%22 |date=7 February 2008 |access-date=11 September 2019 |work=Daily News |location=New York, New York |page=45}} which won the 2008 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play.[https://www.lortelaward.com/2008-nominees "The Lucille Lortel Awards], Nominees and Winners 2008, accessed August 27, 2019
Parker is active in the Writers Guild of America, East.{{cite web| url=http://www.wgaeast.org/index.php?id=208&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5btt_news%5d=2775&tx_ttnews%5bbackPid%5d=21 |title= 'From Broadway to the Back Lot': OnWriting Online Issue 4 | publisher= Writers Guild of America, East |date= 9 February 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://www.wgaeast.org/index.php?id=208&tx_ttnews%5btt_news%5d=2300&tx_ttnews%5bbackPid%5d=21&cHash=9a4d0c957dcddf9f859b33a905054630 | title=Do you like our new look?| quote=The site was made with you in mind thanks to the tireless efforts of our website committee, especially Council Members Adam Brooks and Pippin Parker. |publisher= Writers Guild of America, East | date=27 May 2010}}
= Stage plays =
== As playwright ==
- 1994 – Limbo, The Coast Playhouse, Los Angeles, performed by Naked Angels, directed by Kate Baggot{{cite news |last1=Foley |first1=F. Kathleen |title=New York-Based Naked Angels Ascend to New Heights |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/159608835/?terms=%22Pippin%2BParker%22 |access-date=15 September 2019 |work=Los Angeles Times |location=Los Angeles, California |page=B9 |date=22 June 1994}}
- 1996 – A Gift, Theater 3, New York{{cite web |title=Naked and Hate Free: A Naked Angels Issues Project |url=https://www.nakedangels.com/naked-and-hate-free |website=Naked Angels |access-date=16 September 2019}}
- 1997 – Passion Play, produced in Winter Shorts, Actors' Gang Theater, Hollywood, performed by Naked Angels{{cite news |last1=Brandes |first1=Philip |title='Winter Shorts' Airs Scenes From Life's Emotional Crises |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/158024068/?terms=%22Pippin%2BParker%22 |access-date=15 September 2019 |work=Los Angeles Times |location=Los Angeles, California |page=F19 |date=21 February 1997}}
- 1998 – Anesthesia, New York Performance Works, Manhattan, directed by Lori Steinberg{{cite web |title=Naked Angels Gets Anesthesia June 11–15 |url=http://www.playbill.com/article/naked-angels-gets-anesthesia-june-11-15-com-75951 |website=Playbill |access-date=16 September 2019 |date=June 11, 1998}}
- 1998 – Little Bites, Tiffany Theater, West Hollywood, performed by Naked Angels, directed by Josh Hamilton{{cite news |last1=Foley |first1=F. Kathleen |title=Angels Can't Make These One-Acts Fly |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/159075766/?terms=%22Pippin%2BParker%22 |access-date=15 September 2019 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=27 February 1998 |location=Los Angeles, California |page=F18}}
- 2007 – Ever Less Free, directed by Frank Pugliese{{cite news |title=Photo Preview: Armed & Naked in America Week 2 |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo-Preview-Armed-Naked-in-America-Week-2-20070416 |access-date=16 September 2019 |work=Broadway World |date=16 April 2007}}
== As director ==
- 2004 – The Democracy Project, series of new one-act plays, The Culture Project, New York{{cite news |last1=Kilian |first1=Michael |title=New York playwrights getting political |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/232430879/?terms=%22Pippin%2BParker%22 |access-date=15 September 2019 |work=Chicago Tribune |date=23 September 2004 |location=Chicago, Illinois}}
- 2008 – Betrayed, by George Packer, The Culture Project, New York{{cite news |last1=Simon |first1=John |title=Play Shows Plight Of Iraqi Interpreters |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/243580331/?terms=%22Pippin%2BParker%22 |access-date=16 September 2019 |work=Hartford Courant |agency=Bloomberg News |date=10 February 2008 |location=Hartford, Connecticut |page=GO8}}{{cite magazine |last1=Thielman |first1=Sam |title=Betrayed |magazine=Variety |date=7 February 2008 |volume=409 |issue=12 |page=47 |issn=0042-2738}}{{cite news |last1=Cox |first1=Gordon |title=Culture Gets Betrayed |work=Daily Variety |date=14 December 2007 |volume=297 |issue=57 |page=4 |issn=0011-5509}}{{cite news |last1=Isherwood |first1=Charles |title=Seduced and Abandoned By Promises of Freedom |work=The New York Times |volume=157 |issue=54213 |date=7 February 2008 |location=New York, New York |pages=B1–B7 |issn=0362-4331}}{{cite magazine |title=Iraq on the stage |magazine=Economist |date=15 March 2008 |volume=386 |issue=8571 |page=99 |issn=0013-0613}}
- 2010 – A Long and Happy Life, by Bekah Brunstetter, Susan Stein Shiva Theater, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie{{cite news |title=Events Guide |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/127483038/?terms=%22Pippin%2BParker%22 |access-date=16 September 2019 |work=Poughkeepsie Journal |date=2 July 2010 |location=Poughkeepsie, new York |page=21E}}
- 2011 – Knickerbocker, by Jonathan Marc Sherman, Public Theater, New York{{cite news |last1=Dziemianowicz |first1=Joe |title=Soon-to-be-dad delivers a dud |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/576745066/?terms=%22Pippin%2BParker%22 |access-date=15 September 2019 |work=Daily News |date=20 May 2011 |location=New York, New York |page=42}}
Personal life
He is the younger brother of Sarah Jessica Parker and Timothy Britten Parker.{{cite web |last1=Smolowe |first1=Jill |title=Broadway Baby |url=http://www.matthewbroderick.net/article/people02.html |website=Matthew Broderick From Here To Infinity |access-date=11 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080311111541/http://www.matthewbroderick.net/article/people02.html |archive-date=March 11, 2008 |date=April 12, 2002}}{{cite news |last1=Fabrikant |first1=Geraldine |title=Slinky Sarah savors security |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/462783389/?terms=%22Pippin%2BParker%22 |access-date=11 September 2019 |work=The San Francisco Examiner |date=30 July 2000 |page=B4}}
References
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