Name Ira Gamerman | Role Playwright | |
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Ira Gamerman is an Australian American podcaster, playwright, professor and screenwriter. His dramatic work has been produced by The Kennedy Center, Collaboraction, Short & Sweet Sydney, Source Festival, and The Chicago New Media Summit. He composes music as Ira Lawrences Haunted Mandolin on an electric mandolin he received from his estranged grandmother.
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- Ira gamerman come again camiguin eise camiguin sonnets 2 of 4
- Podcasting
- Education
- Journalism
- Awards
- Full length plays
- Short plays
- One act plays
- Press
- References
Podcasting
As a podcaster, he writes for Radiotopia’s THE TRUTH (featured on This American Life) where his collaborative audio-play Biological Clock won a 2013 Mark Time Award from the Fire Sign Theater for Best Science Fiction Audio Production of the Year. He also co-created and co-hosts DANGEROUSLY UNQUALIFIED: A PODCAST ABOUT LOVE with EST/Youngblood Alumni Playwright Ryan Dowler through BSD MEDIA. Internationally, Ira is Co-Creative Artistic Director of AUSTRALIAMERICAN THEATER CONGLOMORATE: EVERYTHING IS EVERYWHERE (2 Americans 2 Aussies 2 Gals 2 Dudes 2 Goys 2 Jews 2 Legit 2 Quit) with Jessica Bellamy, David Finnigan, and Siobhan O’loughlin. Ira holds a BA in Theater from Towson University, an MFA in Playwriting from Ohio University, and studied Devised theater at the (now defunct) Dartington College Of Art in the UK.
Education
As an educator, Gamerman has taught undergraduate theater at Ohio University and Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn in addition to playwright-mentoring Young Playwrights Festivals at Atlanta’s Horizon Theater and Baltimore’s Center Stage.
Journalism
As a music journalist, Gamerman has been published by Consequence Of Sound, Eleven Magazine in St. Louis (even though he has never actually visited St. Louis), and Howlround. He was also an extra in Season 3 of The Wire and has the screenshot to prove it if you don’t believe him.
Split is about an angsty young man attempting to find himself, while interacting with imaginary friends including Vince Vaughn and an angry Alaskan, Mr Eskimo. The Baltimore Sun praised its "playful inventiveness". BroadwayWorld.com compared it to Neil Simon. The Baltimore City Paper appreciated the way Gamerman turned a "fairly inauspicious scenario" into an "achievement" that accurately represents modern patterns of thought, comparing it to sitcoms such as Scrubs.
Awards
In 2006, City Paper voted Gamerman “Best Playwright Of Baltimore” and in 2009, he was nominated for a New York Innovative Theater Award for best short play.
Full-length plays
Short plays
One-act plays
Press
Ira Gamerman's plays have received reviews from the Chicago Sun-Times, The Baltimore Sun, Time Out Chicago, City Paper, and Broadwayworld.com.
Gamerman was voted "Best Playwright" for "Split" in City Paper's 2006 Best Of Baltimore Awards and noted as one of "15 Young Baltimore Theatre Artists to Watch" by Broadwayworld.com.
Gamerman has appeared in Chicago Magazine and been interviewed by Broadwayworld.com.
His short play "Dated: A Cautionary Tale For Facebook Users" was nominated for a 2009 New York Innovative Theater Award for best short play.