Anton Piatigorsky

Anton Piatigorsky
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Canadian, American
Period	1990s-present
Spouse	Ava Roth

Anton Piatigorsky is an American-Canadian author and playwright.

He was born and raised in the Washington, DC area, and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario. ^[1] He is an alumnus of Brown University, ^[2] where he studied theatre and religion. ^{[3] [4]}

Piatigorsky has twice received the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play/Musical in the Independent Theatre category (for "Easy Lenny Lazmon and the Great Western Ascension" in 1999, and for "Eternal Hydra" in 2009. ^[5] His adaptation of S. An-sky's classic Yiddish play The Dybbuk, was produced at Soulpepper Theatre in 2015. ^{[6] [7]} In addition to his solo work as a playwright, Piatigorsky collaborated with composer Brian Current on the opera Airline Icarus, with Piatigorsky writing the libretto. ^[8]

Piatigorsky was a runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2012 for his collection of short stories, The Iron Bridge. ^[9] The collection imagines the adolescent lives of notorious 20th century dictators, including Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Idi Amin. ^[10]

Piatigorsky has previously taught Creative Writing at McMaster University. ^[11]

Bibliography

• Easy Lenny Lazmon and the Great Western Ascension, Playwrights Canada Press, 2000. ISBN   978-0887545887 ^[12]
• Anton Piatigorsky: Two Plays (includes "The Offering" and "The Kabbalistic Psychoanalysis of Adam R. Tzaddik"), Playwrights Canada Press, 2001. ISBN   978-0887546242 ^[13]
• Eternal Hydra, Coach House Books, 2005. ISBN   978-1770560468 ^{[14] [15]}
• The Iron Bridge, Goose Lane Editions, 2012. ISBN   978-0864927514 ^{[16] [17] [18]}
• Al-Tounsi, Crowsnest Books, 2019. ISBN   978-0921332602 ^[19]

References

1. "An Interview with Anton Piatigorsky" Holly Smith, Washington Independent Review of Books, July 11, 2017. Accessed June 13, 2025.
2. "Fresh Ink" Brown Alumni Magazine, April 28, 2012. Accessed June 12, 2025.
3. "Anton Piatigorsky, Protégé, 2025" Siminovitch Prize. Accessed June 12, 2025.
4. "‘Al-Tounsi’ An Interview With Novelist And Playwright Anton Piatigorsky" David Lat, Above the Law, April 20, 2017. Accessed June 13, 2025.
5. "Dora Awards Recipients" Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts
6. Cushman, Robert (May 30, 2015). "That's the spirit; What's love got to do with exorcism? Quite a bit in Soulpepper's production of Yiddish classic The Dybbuk". National Post. ProQuest   1684257629 . Retrieved 19 June 2025.
7. Ouzounian, Richard (May 20, 2015). "A wedding day from hell: Soulpepper's The Dybbuk brings new meaning to classic play". The Toronto Star. Retrieved 19 June 2025.
8. "Airline Icarus" Canadian Opera Resource. Accessed June 13, 2025.
9. "Winners Announced for the 2012 Danuta Gleed Literary Award" The Writers' Union of Canada
10. "Dictators Were Children Too: Anton Piatigorsky (Interview)" CBC's The Current
11. "Working at the Intersection of Research and Creative Writing" McMaster University, February 20, 2019. Accessed June 13, 2025.
12. Taylor, Kate (15 October 1998). "Jewish spiritualism meets the Wild West It may sound farcical, but Anton Piatigorsky's demanding new play is anything but". The Globe and Mail. ProQuest   384559477.
13. Barton, Bruce (2002). "Drama reviews". University of Toronto Quarterly. 72 (1): 255–290. doi:10.3138/utq.72.1.255. ProQuest   224041206.
14. Kohn, Martin F (17 July 2002). "Stratford, Act II". Detroit Free Press. ProQuest   436384633.
15. Ouzounian, Richard (28 January 2011). "Classy drama, imperfect script". Toronto Star. ProQuest   847624842.
16. Elliott Brown, Roland (October 26, 2012). "Book Review: The Iron Bridge, by Anton Piatigorsky". The National Post. Retrieved June 13, 2025.
17. "Fiction reviews". Publishers Weekly. Vol. 260, no. 23. 10 June 2013. ProQuest   1367097572.
18. McCauley, Mary Carole (7 July 2013). "Stories chronicle teen years of tyrants: Bethesda-born author starts with real-life facts to portray six future dictators at a crossroads". The Baltimore Sun. ProQuest   1398656180.
19. Elliott Brown, Roland (April 29, 2017). "Judging a book: In his debut novel, Anton Piatigorsky goes behind the scenes of the U.S. Supreme Court". ProQuest: The Globe and Mail. Retrieved June 13, 2025.