Leon Katz was the author of several dozen original plays and adaptations produced in the U.S. and abroad. Among them are The Three Cuckolds (about 400 productions in 11 countries, most recently, in L.A., at Theatre 40,) Sonya (most recent production with Julie Harris,) Dracula: Sabbat, Son of Arlecchino, GBS in Love, Beds, Pinocchio, Finnegan's Wake, The Marquis de Sade’s Justine, Amerika, The Odyssey, Swellfoot’s Tears, The Dybbuk, Remembrance of Things Past, and The Making of Americans (an opera based on Gertrude Stein’s monumental novel, with composer Al Carmines.) He has also done translations for various productions and new stage versions of plays by Aeschylus (Agamemnon,) Schiller (The Robbers,) Ibsen (Love’s Comedy,) Claudel (The Satin Slipper,) Strindberg (The Road to Damascus,) Gide-Barrault (The Trial,) and others. A collection of his plays is published under the title, Midnight Plays. Individual play publications, separately and in anthologies, include The Three Cuckolds, Son of Arlecchino, Swellfoot’s Tears, The Making of Americans, and Dracula:Sabbat. He died in 2017.
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