Baitz, Jon Robin

Jon Robin Baitz

Jon Baitz


Profile:
Jon Robin Baitz's plays include "The Film Society", "The Substance of Fire", "Three Hotels", "A Fair Country", "Ten Unknowns" "Mizlansky/Zilinsky", a new version of Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" which was produced on Broadway in 2001, and "The Paris Letter". He is the creator of the hit ABC TV show "Brothers & Sisters, which he also executive produced for the first two seasons. He is currently writing and executive producing a mini-series for HBO about the selling of the Iraq war to the public, entitled "Bush's War". His PBS film version of "Three Hotels" won a Humanitas Award. Other screenplays include "The Substance of Fire" based on his play, and "People I know", which starred Al Pacino. He has also written episodes of "West Wing" and "Alias". He is a Pulitzer finalist, a Guggenheim, and NEA fellow, and American Academy of Arts & Letters Award winner, a founding member and a former artistic director of New York's Naked Angels theatre company. His new play "Love & Mercy""will be produced next season on Broadway. His work has been produced in New York by Playwrights Horizons, The Roundabout Theatre, Lincoln Center Theatre, & The Second Stage.
 
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