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size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Actors’ <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Summit</st1:place></st1:City> <br>
Hosts Internationally Acclaimed <br>
Screen Writer / Playwright</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Actors’ Summit, Hudson’s Equity
Professional Theater, which is producing the world English language premiere of
two short vaudeville sketches, discovered and translated by George Malko will
be hosting Mr. Malko at a series of post performance discussions this Thursday,
Friday, and Saturday. Mr. Malko is also the translator of the other two pieces
on the evening’s bill of faire. In addition to the new pieces (<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>In the Spring</span></i> and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>The Dimwit</span></i>) Actors’ Summit will be
mounting the second professional production of two classic comedies translated
by Mr. Malko – <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Bear</span></i> and
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Marriage Proposal</span></i>. <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Russians in Love</span></i> will have a preview
performance on January 15 with the official opening night on January 16, 2009.
The play will have twelve performances through February 1, 2009. The play is
performed Thursdays, Fridays, & Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 2 PM at
the Actors’ Summit Theater in downtown <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Hudson</st1:place></st1:City>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Mr. Malko will also be presenting a lecture on “The
Mysteries of Translation” at the Hudson Library and Historical Society on
Saturday, January 16, at 2:00 PM. The lecture is free and open to the public,
and will be followed by a reception. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>George Malko (Translator) Mr. Malko speaks, reads, and
writes English, Russian, French and Italian, and has worked as a writer in all
of those languages. He took is undergraduate degree in French at <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Haverford</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, followed by an advanced degree
at the Sorbonne. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
“Living and studying in <st1:City w:st="on">Paris</st1:City> confirmed
for me that a huge part of my Russian soul would always cling to Europe, even
as I knew how lucky I and my family had been to make it to the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
where I grew up and was primarily educated. Also in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:City>, I realized I wanted to try to write; I
didn’t declare that I was going to be a writer, which to my way of
thinking is an identity. I simply realized that writing was what I had to try. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>“I got into New York Radio & TV through a
Haverford classmate and dear friend, the late Rodney Clurman. He got me hired
as a reporter/writer on a Mr. & Mrs. radio talk show which was broadcast
live five nights a week from the Waldorf Astoria’s Peacock Alley. God, it
was fun, I was in show business and I was being paid to write! Or so I told myself;
what I really did over the fourteen months I was there was research and then
pre-interview an incredible array of talk-show guests: celebrities,
politicians, athletes. In its own way, it was a kind of grad school; it didn’t
teach me how to write, but it did force me to learn how to interview and how to
research source materials. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>“A few years later I had a great job at CBS News
but they wouldn’t let me write. I was constantly being told “Not
yet,” without any sense of when that “yet” might be. I was
married, living in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Rome</st1:place></st1:City>
making documentary films for CBS, and again, it was a hell of a lot of fun. But
in a moment of what might have been almost arrogant clarity, I knew that if I
was going to find whatever it was I was looking for, I had to go out on my own.
So I quit. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>“By the 70s and 80s, I had had my first feature
and TV movies produced, a novel published, some plays produced, and I had an
office on <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">West 57th Street</st1:address></st1:Street>.
Yes, it was a lot, but that true sense of something authentic coming out of me
continued to be elusive. <br>
“In those years, as my work progressed, and as I struggled to finish
another novel, I did a wide variety of writing to support myself and my family.
This included writing a few films which accompanied art exhibits at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. One was on the magnificent unicorn tapestries.”
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>For over ten years he’s been in the Department
of Dramatic Writing at NYU’s <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Tisch</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of the Arts, as well as
visiting professor of screenwriting at <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Cuba</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s International School
of Film and Television. His other produced dramatic works include: <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Coyote</span></i> (Playwrights’ Circle, <st1:City
w:st="on">Palm Springs</st1:City>), <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Querncia</span></i>
(Lark Theatre Company, <st1:State w:st="on">New York</st1:State>), <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>HELMUT SEES AMERICA</span></i> (Theater 3, <st1:State
w:st="on">New York</st1:State>), <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Three By
Chekhov</span></i> (Nora Theatre Company, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:place></st1:City>),
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Last Bangings</span></i> (The New Theater,
New York). He has also been a successful screenwriter. His produced feature
films include: OUT COLD, SWEET LORRAINE, THE DOGS OF WAR, LUNA, and ALIEN
THUNDER. His television credits include: TIDAL WAVE, KAVIK, THE WOLF DOG, and
RETURN TO EARTH. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>“A Tragic Man Despite Himself: The Complete
Short Plays of Anton Chekhov,” in his translation, was published by Green
Integer Press. He has received a playwriting grant from the NEA and a
Guggenheim Fellowship in screenwriting, the first ever awarded. His translation
of Chekhov’s <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Cherry Orchard</span></i>
was just produced at the Nora Theatre Company in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:place></st1:City>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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