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."An Interview with Anton Piatigorsky" Holly Smith, Washington Independent Review of Books, July 11, 2017. Accessed June 13, 2025. He is an alumnus of Brown University,"Fresh Ink" Brown Alumni Magazine, April 28, 2012. Accessed June 12, 2025. where he studied theatre and religion."Anton Piatigorsky, Protégé, 2025" Siminovitch Prize. Accessed June 12, 2025."‘Al-Tounsi’ An Interview With Novelist And Playwright Anton Piatigorsky" David Lat, Above the Law, April 20, 2017. Accessed June 13, 2025.
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."Dora Awards Recipients" Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts His adaptation of S. An-sky's classic Yiddish play The Dybbuk, was produced at Soulpepper Theatre in 2015. 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."Airline Icarus" Canadian Opera Resource. Accessed June 13, 2025.
Piatigorsky was a runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2012 for his collection of short stories, The Iron Bridge."Winners Announced for the 2012 Danuta Gleed Literary Award" The Writers' Union of Canada The collection imagines the adolescent lives of notorious 20th century dictators, including Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Idi Amin."Dictators Were Children Too: Anton Piatigorsky (Interview)" CBC's The Current
Piatigorsky has previously taught Creative Writing at McMaster University."Working at the Intersection of Research and Creative Writing" McMaster University, February 20, 2019. Accessed June 13, 2025.
Bibliography
Easy Lenny Lazmon and the Great Western Ascension, Playwrights Canada Press, 2000. Anton Piatigorsky: Two Plays (includes "The Offering" and "The Kabbalistic Psychoanalysis of Adam R. Tzaddik"), Playwrights Canada Press, 2001. Eternal Hydra, Coach House Books, 2005. The Iron Bridge, Goose Lane Editions, 2012. Al-Tounsi, Crowsnest Books, 2019.
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