Ronald Ribman Ronald Burt Ribman is an American author , poet and playwright .Biography Ribman was born in Sydenham Hospital in New York City to Samuel M. Ribman, a lawyer , and Rosa Ribman. He attended public school in Brooklyn , and graduated P.S. 188 in 1944. Ribman attended Mark Twain Jr. High School, graduating in 1947, and Abraham Lincoln H.S., graduating in 1950. Ribman is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh , receiving his bachelor's degree in 1954, his master's degree in 1958, and his Ph.D. in 1962. In August 1967, he married Alice Rosen, a registered nurse . The Ribmans have two children, James and Elana. Ribman served in the United States Army from 1954 to 1956. Following his military service, Ribman worked as a coal broker for the J.E. Ribman Coal Co of Johnstown, Pennsylvania , from 1956 to 1957. Ribman was an assistant professor of English Literature at Otterbein College from 1962 to 1963, and left academia to focus on his plays in 1964 to the present.Literature Ribman's poetry first appeared in literary magazines as The Beloit Poetry Journal and The Colorado Quarterly . Ribman's first commercial publication was an article, co-authored with his father, in the April 1964 issue of Harper's Magazine , titled "The Poor Man in the Scales," a study of the problems faced by indigent defendants in the federal courts. Ribman's most famous early play, "The Journey of the Fifth Horse" based on Ivan Turgenev's short story "The Diary of a Superfluous Man," won an Obie Award and starred a young Dustin Hoffman in the role of Zoditch.NOVEL • Infinite Absence, April 2016Plays Harry, Noon and Night , The American Place Theatre , 1965. The Journey of the Fifth Horse , The American Place Theatre , 1966.The Ceremony of Innocence , The American Place Theatre, 1967.Passing Through From Exotic Places , Sheridan Square Playhouse , 1969.Fingernails Blue As Flowers , The American Place Theatre, 1971.A Break in the Skin , Yale Repertory Company, 1972. The Poison Tree , The Playhouse in the Park , Philadelphia, PA. and Westport Playhouse, CT, 1973. Cold Storage, The American Place Theatre, 1977. Buck , Playwrights Horizons/ The American Place Theatre, 1983.Sweet Table at the Richelieu , The American Repertory Theatre , Cambridge, MA., 1987.The Cannibal Masque , The American Repertory Theater , Cambridge, MA., 1987.A Serpent's Egg , The American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, MA., 1987.The Rug Merchants of Chaos , Pasadena Playhouse , Pasadena, CA., 1991.Dream of the Red Spider , The American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, MA., 1993.Screenplays and television The Journey of the Fifth Horse , National Educational Television , 1966.The Final War of Olly Winter , CBS Playhouse , 1967.The Most Beautiful Fish , PBS, 1969; published in The New York Times , November 23, 1969.The Angel Levine , United Artists , 1969.The Ceremony of Innocence , NET Playhouse, 1970; subsequently adapted by Granada Television in 1974.Cold Storage , A&E Network, 1984.Seize the Day , PBS Playhouse , 1987.The Sunset Gang series, PBS, 1991.Publications Ronald Ribman Two Plays: The Journey of the Fifth Horse & Harry, Noon and Night , Little Brown, 1967.The Journey of the Fifth Horse , Samuel French, 1967.The Journey of the Fifth Horse, The Off Off Broadway Book , edited by Albert Poland and Bruce Mailman, Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1972.The Ceremony of Innocence , Dramatists Play Service , 1968.Passing Through From Exotic Places , Dramatists Play Service, 1970.The Burial Of Esposito in The Best Short Plays 1971, edited by Stanley Richards, Avon, 1971.Fingernails Blue As Flowers in The American Place Theatre: Plays, edited by Richard Schotter, Dell, 1973. The Final War Of Olly Winter in One Act Plays For Our Times , edited by Dr. Francis Griffith, Popular Library, 1973.The Journey of the Fifth Horse , Davis Poynter, 1974.Cold Storage , Samuel French, 1976. Cold Storage , Nelson Doubleday, 1976.Five Plays By Ronald Ribman , Avon, 1978.Buck in New Plays USA , edited by M. Elizabeth Osborn, Theater Communications Group, 1984.Sweet Table At The Richelieu in American Theater , Vol. 4, Number 4, July/August 1987. The Rug Merchants of Chaos and other plays , Theater Communications Group, 1992.The Cannibal Masque in The Best American Short Plays 1994–1995 , edited by Howard Stein and Glenn Young, Applause, 1995. ° Shirley,Buck by Ronald Ribman in Contemporary American Monologues For Women, edited by Todd London, Theater Communications Group, 1998.Awards and fellowships Obie Award, Best Play 1966, The Journey of the Fifth Horse. Emmy Nomination, Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama, 1966–1967, The Final War of Olly Winter. Straw Hat Award, Best New Play, 1973, The Poison Tree. Dramatists Guild, Hull-Warriner Award , 1976–1977, Cold Storage. Pulitzer Prize Nomination in Drama, 1978, Cold Storage Playwrights USA Award, 1984, Buck. Kennedy Center, Fund For New American Plays, 1991, The Rug Merchants of Chaos. Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, 1966, 1968. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1970. National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1974, 1986–87. In 1975, Ribman was honored by the Rockefeller Foundation with a Playwright-In-Residence fellowship for sustained contribution to American Theater. In 1983, Ribman's play Cold Storage was chosen to be staged by Classic Theater International at the Hague, Netherlands to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the establishment of Dutch-American diplomatic relations. Subsequently a luncheon in his honor was held at the American embassy.Critical commentary and analysis After the American Repertory Theater's world premier of Ribman's "Sweet Table at the Richelieu," Jonathan Marks identified a central theme in Ribman's work as having "a preoccupation with the persistence of the past in the present—a recognition that we all carry with us a heavy baggage of seeds, each of which began sprouting at a different time in the past, and never stopped shooting out tendrils: a bag of memories which can never be simply dumped."
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