Insecure, endless verbalizing and very funny, they hope to assuage ambivalence with words their dialogue tends less to the absurd than to a brittle epigrammatic gleam." He is also a classical pianist "John Augustine's characters cling to language like alcoholics to a martini glass. He is half of “Dawne” in the satiric nightclub act CHRIS DURANG AND DAWNE, which has played at the Criterion Center, Caroline’s Comedy Club, Williamstown Summer Cabaret, and the Triad, winning a 1996 Bistro Award.
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Some acting credits include the Young Playwrights Festival at Playwrights Horizons, Mac Wellman’s satire on government censorship, “SEVEN BLOWJOBS” at Soho Rep, Heather McKutcheon’s WALK ON LAKE ERIE at HOME and the original productions of Christopher Durang’s NAOMI IN THE LIVING ROOM at Home for Contemporary Theatre, and Bill Russell’s ELEGIES FOR ANGELS, PUNKS & RAGING QUEENS. He is a Revson Fellow in Playwriting, and a member of The Writers Guild of America, The Dramatists Guild, SAG and AEA. He has taught playwriting at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, The 42nd Street Collective, and Playwrights Horizons Theatre School.
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Augustine wrote for the Fox TV show Titus and for Encore! Encore! with Nathan Lane and Joan Plowright.
The New York Times wrote of this play, “PeopleSpeak” (is) a witty and acerbic play that is the best of the Summer Shorts festival.” He and playwright, Willy Conley were commissioned by the National Theatre of the Deaf, to write OH! FIGARO! which toured the United States. His anthology of 20 short plays, Augustine’s Confessions, is published by He is also published in the short play anthologies Take Ten and The Best American Short Plays of 1993-94. His play PeopleSpeak is published in Shorter, Faster, Funnier. John Augustine's plays have been produced in New York City at The Zipper, HERE, Naked Angels, All Season's Theatre Group, Expanded Arts, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Miranda Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, and 59E59 Theaters.
Adelman served as president of The National Association Of Talent Agents from 1994-2005. Adelman directed theater (including Raffi: A Family Concert on Broadway, on national tour, and for The Disney Channel), composed scores for theater and television, wrote, composed and directed extensively in cabaret, was a member of the Lehman Engel BMI workshop, developed and wrote for sitcoms, participated in the Warner Bros.Television Writer's Workshop, and served as writer/head writer for many network game shows, including The $25,000 Pyramid (for which he is most fondly remembered for having written "things that are purple."). In prior varied lives as a director/composer/lyricist/writer, Mr. Current clients include Sutton Foster, Gary Beach, Shirley Knight, Debra Monk, Walter Bobbie and Tovah Feldshuh.
He played a part in discovering and helping develop the early careers of Halle Berry, Woody Harrelson, Bill Pullman, Liev Schreiber, Bebe Neuwirth, Adam Sandler, among many others. Philip Adelman has been a talent agent since 1979, co-managing the New York Office of The Gage Group since 1980, where he has represented Oscar, Tony and Emmy winners.
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