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Beauty Freak
Author(s): James Clements
The play explores the rise of controversial filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl during the creation and promotion of her magnum opus Olympia, a film about the 1936 Berlin Olympics commissioned by the Nazi Regime. As the regime that supports her artistic vision escalates their campaign of terror and commits increasingly flagrant atrocities, Leni and her colleagues are forced to reckon with their own complicity and responsibilities as artists.
Format: Drama
Notes:
Directed by Danilo Gambini in a co-production with the theater company What Will The Neighbors Say?
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Premier at the Cell Theatre, New York, NY, April–May 2026.
Premier at the Cell Theatre, New York, NY, April–May 2026.
Original Source Material: Researched at the Imperial War Museum and BFI archives in London, and the Museum für Fotografie and Film University Babelsberg in Berlin.
Nationality of Author: Scottish
Original Language: English
Production Rights Holder:
Visit the playwright’s website: james-clements.com.
Experience(s) Chronicled: Germany, Hitler and the Growth of Nazism | Perpetrators, Bystanders and Collaborators
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Lifetime Achievement Award
The National Jewish Theater Foundation presented its 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award to Alfred Uhry. The presentation took place as part of the Lincoln Center Library event on January 27th 2025 in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 80th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
Lifetime Achievement Award
On September 30, 2024, French playwright, Mr. Jean Claude Grumberg received the Lifetime Achievement Award. It was presented by NJTF HTII President, Arnold Mittelman with Dominique Trimbur, PhD-Manager for the History of Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, Teaching of the Holocaust of Fondation Pour La Memoir de la Shoah Project.