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Tristine Skyler
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Tristine Skyler is a NY based playwright, screenwriter and producer. Her play, "The Moonlight Room," about at-risk youth in New York City, was named one of the 'Top Ten Plays of the Year' by The New York Times and The New York Post, was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle John Gassner award for best new American play, and has been performed all over the country. She recently completed a biopic about Hetty Green, considered the first woman on Wall Street, based on Charles Slack's "Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon." She co-wrote the film "Getting to Know You," an adaptation of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates, which played in the Dramatic Competition at Sundance, the Critics Week section of the Venice Film Festival, and received "Two Thumbs Up" from Ebert and Roeper. She is currently working on a number of new projects, including an original teleplay for producer Gale Ann Hurd, and a feature with director Catherine Hardwicke. She holds a BA cum laude from Princeton University.

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When the Hollywood Horror Film Is Real Life

(9) Comments | Posted August 3, 2012 | 5:36 PM

On July 20, 2012, members of a suburban community outside of Denver, Colorado went to the movies. They went to a midnight movie in fact, intending to catch the first screening of the latest anticipated Batman film, in which a caped crusader fights crime and saves innocent people.

But on...

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It Will Take a Country to Save a Country -- Tucson One Year Later

(49) Comments | Posted February 10, 2012 | 9:30 AM

Time is less easily marked in a desert climate. Leaves don't cover the ground in the fall, and snow rarely buries it in the winter. The year is divided into only two main seasons -- most notably summer, when a brutal dry heat sends residents indoors.

But on Jan. 8,...

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Why Zach Braff's All New People Is the Defining Play of a Generation

(1) Comments | Posted July 26, 2011 | 10:39 AM

"Maybe we just want too much," one of the characters says in Zach Braff's riveting real‐time comedy/drama All New People. " We want the million dollars and the kid robot. But isn't the million dollars enough? I mean, we have our lives, isn't that enough?" Apparently not, especially in light...

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On the Road with the Fix Gun Checks Tour

(49) Comments | Posted June 16, 2011 | 2:58 PM

"The number comes from the Center for Disease Control because it's considered a public health issue," says Lance Orchid, the campaign manager for the Mayors Against Illegal Guns 'Fix Gun Checks' Tour. It is more like an epidemic. When a large, red billboard truck pulls up outside City Hall in...

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