About this Event
The Drama Book Shop presents, in association with Jay Michaels Global Communications, for Zaglada with Richard Vetere
About the book
When journalist Danielle Hooper goes to interview Jerzy Koslowski in a quiet residential neighborhood in Queens, NY, for her book on War World II, he takes a shot at her. Promptly arrested and held in the 112 th Police Precinct, he gets the attention of Homeland Security agent Sonia Sokolow and NYC Intelligence Bureau officer Frank Napoli. It seems elderly senior citizen Koslowski lied on his initial immigration application when he entered the United States from Poland after Second World War and is wanted for International War Crimes of which there is no statutory limit. Sonia has proof that he was a kapo at the work camp Buchenwald in Germany and collaborated with the SS. However, she now has only forty-eight hours to charge him with these crimes and find a country which she can deport him to that will try him. She must not only battle the time constraint but also Officer Napoli who believes that Koslowski, who is dying of stage four cancer, is not a priority of the U.S. government. He also believes that Sonia, who has a personal history with Koslowski, since both her parents survived Buchenwald, must recuse herself from the case despite her obsession in seeing justice prevail. Zaglada was developed in the PDW at the Actors Studio.
About the author
Richard Vetere’s teleplay adaptation of his published stage play The Marriage Fool, starring Walter Matthau, Carol Burnet and John Stamos, is now streaming on Amazon. His novel The Writers Afterlife, published in 2014, was called “a unique caper of magic realism” by Publishers Weekly. His new play Zaglada, was published by Dramatic Publishing in 2019. His screenplay Caravaggio, an adaptation of his own published stage play, won the Golden Palm Award for Best Screenplay at the Beverly Hills International Film Festival in 2021. His Live Fast, Die Young & Leave a Good-Looking Corpse: a memoir of the 1970s was published in 2021. He co-wrote the movie The Third Miracle, which is a screenplay adaptation of his own novel, published by Simon & Schuster. It was produced by Francis Ford Coppola, directed by Agnieszka Holand, and stars Ed Harris and Anne Heche. He has a master’s degree in Comparative English Literature from Columbia University and has lectured on screenwriting and playwrighting in the master’s program at NYU and lectures now at Queens College. In 2005, the Frank Melville Library at Stony Brook University created the Richard Vetere Collection, an archive of his work. RichardVetereauthor.com
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The Drama Book Shop, 266 West 39th Street, New York, United States
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