Frank Dwyer
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Frank Dwyer is a poet, playwright, actor, theater director, co-translator with the late Nicholas Saunders of Russian plays, and author of young adult biographies of John Adams, Georges-Jacques Danton, King Henry VIII, and King James I. The Affliction of Glory: A Comedy About Tragedy, Frank's play about the great English actress Sarah Siddons, was commissioned by the Getty Center and premiered in a joint production with the Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles). Frank and Nicholas Saunders have translated Anton Chekhov's major plays, including The Wood Demon, The Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard, and nine of his comic one-acts; Maxim Gorky's The Summer People and Enemies; Mikhail Bulgakov's Zoyka's Apartment; Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector; Ivan Turgenev's A Month in the Country, and Aleksander Ostrovsky's The Forest (in preparation), their 20th collaboration. Some of their translations have been published by Smith & Kraus and by Samuel French, Inc.

Frank directed the premiere of their co-translation of The Wood Demon at the Mark Taper Forum. As a member of the Repertory Company of Lincoln Center, Frank appeared in Ellis Rabb's production of an earlier translation of Gorky's Enemies. He worked as an actor on Broadway, in the New York Shakespeare Festival, at the Roundabout Theater, the Quaigh Theater, Playwrights' Horizons, the Music-Theatre Group, and CSC. He won an Outlook "Best of the Year" citation for his performance as Falstaff in a version of both parts of Shakespeare's Henry IV at the Odyssey Theatre (LA). He is a frequent lecturer in the Los Angeles area, and has taught acting, dramaturgy for actors, and poetry workshops, as well as courses in play analysis, Shakespeare, Introduction to Theater, and the History of World Theater at the California Institute of the Arts, the University of Redlands, and UCLA, where he taught the theater portion of Robert Winter's popular cluster course, "Inside the Performing Arts."

Blog Entries by Frank Dwyer

He Is Heavy, He's My Koch Brother

0 Comments | Posted February 29, 2012 | 11:59 AM

Corporations can

crave, grab, whine, lie, cheat, murder:

they're almost people.

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Candidate Roundup: Choosing the Leader of the Free World Before It Gets Any More Expensive

0 Comments | Posted October 22, 2011 | 8:27 PM

Admit it, Ron Paul
is brilliant every now and
then! Like a lighthouse.

Yes, Newt, we know you're
smart and we're dumb. You win the
one vote that counts. Yours.

Herman Cain, down-to-
earth, man of the people: a
real Harry Falseman.

Perry could...

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Campaign Advice for All Future Centrist Incumbents

0 Comments | Posted September 20, 2011 | 3:42 PM

Best strategy to
win second term as Dem? Uh . . .
be one in first term.

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Hocus Potus

0 Comments | Posted September 2, 2011 | 3:30 PM

Let them do what they're
good at. Harding answered mail,
Obama campaigns.

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Fire Them When You See the Whites of Their Flags

0 Comments | Posted July 31, 2011 | 5:38 PM

The principle of not negotiating with terrorists, especially when it involves the essential functioning of our democracy, is as important as the incessantly and sanctimoniously invoked "full faith and credit of the United States."

The Democrats should not be making the deal they are reportedly about to make. They should,...

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The Great Debate Is the Same as All the Little Debates

0 Comments | Posted July 21, 2011 | 2:47 PM

We're the Dems! If all
we can get is nothing: deal!
Just give us nothing!

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Advice for a President Hoping for No Change

0 Comments | Posted June 23, 2011 | 6:45 PM

Get troops down to Bush
levels by 2012, and
then run against Bush!

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Revised Commandment

0 Comments | Posted June 22, 2011 | 2:41 PM

Revised commandment:
Thou Shalt Not Kill (unless it's
not hostilities).

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Why This Is Not Iraq: or, We'll Be Home by Christmas

0 Comments | Posted March 29, 2011 | 6:14 PM

Libya's not from
Pottery Barn! No "You break
it, you own it" rule!

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A Helpful Idea for a Great First Lady

0 Comments | Posted March 11, 2011 | 4:58 PM

Bullying summit?
Michelle, please teach Barack how
to defend himself.

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I Love DFA and ActBlue: Why I'm Not Sending a Donation to Help Run the Ad in Wisconsin

0 Comments | Posted March 6, 2011 | 1:47 PM

I've just received an email solicitation from Charles Chamberlain at DFA, asking that I contribute to help keep the ActBlue ad running in Wisconsin.

I'd like to contribute, but if we're using all this energy and heartfelt passion only, in the long run, to re-elect a president who has...

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Wisconsin Is a Win/Win -- for the Koch Brothers

0 Comments | Posted February 24, 2011 | 1:33 PM

The presidency of Barack Obama has been a catastrophe for business, the bankers, Wall Street, the corporations, and especially the poor Koch brothers.

That's what you might think if you are stupid or a regular viewer of Fox News. It is a lie.

If you watch Fox or wear tri-cornered...

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A Dispassionate Look at American Exceptionalism (Uh-Oh)

0 Comments | Posted January 30, 2011 | 7:34 PM

The US is as
great as its people are smart
and its leaders good.

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Comcatastrophe; or, Who's the Best Republican President Since Clinton?

0 Comments | Posted January 18, 2011 | 4:07 PM

Still got freedom -- to
watch what Big Brother shows us
and run on his wheel.

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Year-End Revelation at the Capitol Dome Lucky Strike Alley

0 Comments | Posted December 25, 2010 | 3:08 PM

"Dems Score Big In Final Hours .. 2012 Looms Over Round Two"
--Huffington Post headline

Obama finds that
pins fall down when ball strikes them!
Bowl, Obama. Bowl!

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Profiles in Courage! Merry Christmas, Mr. Scrooge! Won't Lay Off Bob Cratchit! Tiny Tim Guaranteed Gruel for Twelve More Months!

0 Comments | Posted December 17, 2010 | 5:19 AM

Democrats are like
echinacea: we take them,
but they just don't work.

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What Is the Right Name for Patriots Who Oppose the Repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell?

0 Comments | Posted December 9, 2010 | 4:00 PM

Let's please start calling things -- and people -- by their right names.

If your close personal relationship (speaking terms) with your God, or your holy religion (even without special FaceBook Friend relationship or even Twitter-follow with your God), or just your old-fashioned, good-old-American bigotry and ignorance have caused you...

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What Our Astonishing Leaders Will Say Before the Bar of Justice

0 Comments | Posted December 7, 2010 | 2:51 AM

We're not perverts! Our
hands were in those kids' pockets
only to rob them!

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Earth to NASA!

0 Comments | Posted December 2, 2010 | 2:55 PM

Arsenic nurtures
some microbes! This is old news
for fans of C-Span.

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He's an Even Bigger Authority Now, and Easier to Book

0 Comments | Posted November 25, 2010 | 11:14 AM

Tom DeLay still a
pundit? Sure. Guilty verdict
boosts his talk-show cred.

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