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About James Penzi
- James Penzi (born July 17, 1952) is an American poet and playwright.
- His poems have been published in numerous small press periodicals and literary journals, including Mundus Artium (Univ.
- of Texas), kayak, Montana Gothic, Caligula Press (England), and Contact II. His plays revolved around the theme of disconnectedness.
- “The Gentlemen of Fifth Avenue” (1983) was about the hermetic, interdependent Collyer brothers who were found in their Fifth Avenue mansion dead among 140 tons of debris; it was accepted by the Philadelphia Drama Guild for its Playwrights of Philadelphia (POP) Festival.
- It was also one of three plays selected for the Old Globe of San Diego’s Best New Plays Festival, a national competition.
- His second full-length play, “Doesn’t The Sky Look Green Today?” (1985), a play about a doomed ménage à trois, was a semi-finalist in the FDG/CBS new plays competition. He received story credit for a horror film, Night of the Demons 2 – a cult classic series created by screenwriter Joe Augustyn, with whom he also collaborated on another script, Beautiful Dreamer.
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