John Strand

John Gregory Strand is a contemporary American playwright.^[1] At times he has published under the name "J.G. Strand". Among his plays are Lincolnesque,^[2][3][4] Three Nights in Tehran,^[5] The Diaries,^[6] Otabenga,^[7][8] and The Originalist.^{[9][10] [11][12][13][14][15][16][17]} Tom Walker is an adaption of The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving.^{[18][19][20][21]} He has also written a number of English-language adaptions of plays written in French: among these are Lovers and Executioners (Antoine Jacob de Montfleury's La Femme Juge et Partie);^[22][23][24] The Miser (Molière);^[25] Lorenzaccio (Alfred de Musset);^[26] Hat! (Eugène Labiche's Un Chapeau de Paille d'Italie);^[27][28] and Hernani (Victor Hugo).^[29] In 1985 he launched (along with Kathy Acker, Eduard Limonov, and Bernard-Henri Lévy) a Paris-based literary magazine called Paris Exiles.^[30][31] A novel, Commieland, appeared in 2013.^[32]

See also

• The Originalist
• Arena Stage