Adam Klasfeld

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Adam Klasfeld is a journalist and playwright. He has written and directed several theater plays and is a journalist for the Courthouse News and also a regular reporter for a variety of news outlets. [1]

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Education

He studied theatre at Rutgers University and followed up on his studies at the Academy of Theatre in London under Richard Digby Day. [2]

Theater career

His acting career began early at the Rutgers Cabaret, and since he has performed on several stages in the United States and Europe. [2] He is often involved with the theater company called One Armed Man. [3] In July 2009, his play The Report of My Death was performed on board a ship on the Hudson River, New York. [4] He also organized a theater festival at the Brecht Forum.

Journalistic career

As a journalist he has reported about the trial of the Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab, who circumvented the US sanction regime on Iran [5] and also in a similar case in which Halkbank, a Turkish state owned bank, is also accused of circumventing the US sanctions against Iran. [6] The access to an article he wrote about a money courier of Reza Zarrab, was banned by a court in Istanbul on the 23 September 2020. [7] Other relevant events he covered in his articles were the attempted impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump [8] and the trial of Michael Cohen, a former lawyer to Donald Trump. [8] He was accused by the Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah of being a complicit of the so-called terrorist organization FETÖ, the movement of Fethullah Gülen. [9] [10]

Plays

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References

  1. ↑ "Adam Klasfeld | About and Contact". Adam Klasfeld. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  2. 1 2 "Alumni Archive". Cabaret Theatre. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
  3. ↑ Jacobs, Leonard (2010-05-12). "Glenn Beck, Now a Theater Festival Is Named After You". Clyde Fitch Report. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  4. ↑ Piepenburg, Erik (2009-07-27). "Theater Where It's Least Expected". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  5. ↑ Tarcan, Pınar (13 December 2017). "Adam Klasfeld: We've Fulfilled People's Desire for Uncensored Information with Zarrab Trial Tweets". Bianet . Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  6. ↑ Klasfeld, Adam (2020-06-30). "Turkey's State-Run Halkbank Wants to Gum Up Money-Laundering Trial" . Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  7. ↑ "Rıza Sarraf'ın para transferini anlatan habere erişim engeli geldi". Halk TV (in Turkish). 23 September 2020. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  8. 1 2 Klasfeld, Adam; Mineiro, Megan (2020-01-14). "Indicted Giuliani Ally Has Money-Tied Republicans Seeking Cover" . Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  9. ↑ sabah, daily (2019-11-12). "FETÖ enjoys freedom in US, Turkish media barred from covering its activities". Daily Sabah. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  10. ↑ TM (13 November 2019). "US journalist branded as terrorist by pro-government Turkish daily – Turkish Minute" . Retrieved 2020-09-23.


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