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Anders Lustgarten
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Author of:
Black Jesus,
The City and the Town,
Contemporary English Plays,
A Day at the Racists,
HighTide Plays: 1,
If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep,
Lampedusa,
Lustgarten Plays: 1,
The Magna Carta Plays,
National Theatre Connections 2012: Plays for Young People,
National Theatre Connections 2017,
The Secret Theatre,
The Seven Acts of Mercy,
Shrapnel: 34 Fragments of a Massacre,
The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie
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Biography
Anders Lustgarten is Pearson Playwright-in-Residence at the Finborough Theatre, where his first two plays, The Insurgents (2007) and Enduring Freedom (2008), were produced. Other work includes The Punishment Stories, (shortlisted for the 2007 Verity Bargate Award), an adaptation of Slawomir Mrozek's The Police (BAC 2007), The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie (2010) for the National Theatre Studio and If You Don't Let Us Dream Then We Won't Let You Sleep (Royal Court, 2013). Anders is a political activist, has taught on Death Row, been arrested by the Turkish secret police, and holds a PhD in Chinese politics from the University of California. He also won the inaugural Harold Pinter Playwrights Award with a commission from the Royal Court in 2011.