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Other directing assignments at the Fountain include: The Night of the Iguana, Summer & Smoke (3 Theatre L.A. Ovation Awards, including Best Production of the Year), The Last Tycoon, which he wrote and directed (5 BackStage West awards, including Best Adaptation and Direction), and Orpheus Descending, (6 Drama-Logue awards, including Best Production and Direction), among others His official stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby, the first sanctioned by the Fitzgerald Estate, was optioned for a commercial production; and his stage adaptation of Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night won the PE West Literary Award for Drama. Simon is currently writing
a contemporary translation/adaptation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People
as a modern version for America which will be produced at the Fountain
Theatre in 2005. Simon teaches Playwriting at UCLA Extension, is proud
to be a site evaluator for both the National Endowment for the Arts and
California Arts Council, and is a member of The Dramatists Guild, Society
of Stage Directors and Choreographers, and Literary Managers and Dramaturgs
of the Americas. www.simonlevy.com
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