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Hitler’s Tasters
Author(s): Michelle Kholos Brooks
Brief synopsis: Hitler’s Tasters is a dark comedy about the young German women who had the “honor” of being chosen as Adolf Hitler’s food tasters. Based on reported events in history with shades of contemporary life, Hitler’s Tasters explores the way girls navigate sexuality, patriotism and poison against the backdrop of war.
Format: Dark Comedy
Cast Size:4-5W
Character breakdown:
Cast breakdown: 4-5 young women representing ages late teens to early 20’s.
One of the women only shows up at the very end so she could potentially be an understudy or the women who is offstage.
These women must look like the Nazi ideal. They are the future of the Reich.
Notes:
Study guides or support material: Educational Graphic Novel adapted from Hitler’s Tasters is currently in development.
Winner of the 2017 Susan Glaspell award
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Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
New Light Theater Project, New York, NY
New Light Theater Project, New York, NY
Original Source Material: https://www.njtfoundation.org
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Production Rights Holder:
Michelle Kholos Brooks
Experience(s) Chronicled: Women and the Holocaust | Other Victims of Nazi Persecution | 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.