{"id":1583,"date":"2011-03-21T22:52:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T02:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2011-03-22T11:44:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T15:44:31","slug":"professor-jon-lipsky-1944-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/2011\/03\/21\/professor-jon-lipsky-1944-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Jon Lipsky 1944-2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/em>“The quality of the man and the quality of the intellect and the quality of the talent are really something very special.” –Robert Brustein, Boston Globe<\/em><\/strong> 3\/21\/11<\/strong>
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I am sorry to report that School of Theatre professor Jon Lipsky has died. \u00a0A funeral service was scheduled for today at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Rehabilitation Center. Jon was surrounded by his family: Kanta, Adam, and Jonah. They and Jon are in our thoughts and prayers.<\/p>\n

Students, faculty, and staff will remember Jon with extroardinary affection.<\/p>\n

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Professor Jon Lipsky. BU Photo Services.<\/p><\/div>\n

Jon’s family and friends are planning a memorial service on the Vineyard later in spring.<\/p>\n

Read Boston Globe<\/em> obituary.<\/a><\/p>\n

His work appeared at the Actors Theatre of Louisville\u2019s Humana Festival of New Plays, American Repertory Theatre, La Mama ETC., Berkshire Theatre Festival, Missouri Rep, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Theater Emory, Sugan Theatre, and other regional theatres. He was a director and Artistic Associate at the Vineyard Playhouse on Martha\u2019s Vineyard, where he lived, and was playwright-in-residence at the Merrimack Rep, TheatreWorks\/Boston, and Boston\u2019s Museum of Science.<\/p>\n

His work also included:\u00a0Living In Exile\u2014a retelling of the Iliad<\/em>;\u00a0The Survivor: a Cambodian Odyssey<\/em>;\u00a0Dreaming with an AIDS Patient<\/em>;\u00a0Maggie\u2019s Riff<\/em>;\u00a0Molly Maguire<\/em>;\u00a0Beginner\u2019s Luck<\/em>; and an interconnected series of nine short plays called\u00a0Book of Revelations<\/em>. In 2007, he won the Boston Critic\u2019s Eliot Norton Award for Best Direction in a small company<\/strong>. His award-winning collaboration with jazz musician Stan Strickland,\u00a0Coming Up for Air: An Autojazzography<\/em>, was presented at the Boston Center for the Arts in September and toured in 2009. As part of the School of Theatre\u2019s New Play Initiative, Jon developed a musical adaptation of Jack London\u2019s\u00a0Call of the Wild<\/em>, which toured with the Olney Theatre Center\u2019s National Players in 2007\u20132008.<\/p>\n

His play, Walking the Volcano<\/em> was produced through a collaboration between the\u00a0Playwrights\u2019 Theatre at Boston University and the Boston Center for American Performance, the professional extension of the BU School of Theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The quality of the man and the quality of the intellect and the quality of the talent are really something very special.” –Robert Brustein, Boston Globe 3\/21\/11 I am sorry to report that School of Theatre professor Jon Lipsky has died. \u00a0A funeral service was scheduled for today at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Rehabilitation Center. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}