David E. Tolchinsky
David E. Tolchinsky (born David Jan Edelson) is a screenwriter, playwright, sound designer, producer, and academic. He was Chair of Northwestern University's Department of Radio-TV-Film from 2007-2018 and is currently Founder/Co-Director of Northwestern University School of Communication's MFA in Writing for the Screen+Stage[1]. He is a graduate of Yale (1985, BA, magna cum laude) and USC School of Cinematic Arts/School of Cinema-Television (1988, MFA). His work has been seen on iTunes, museums, galleries, and film festivals.
As a screenwriter and associate producer, his feature film Girl[2] starring Selma Blair is available on iTunes[3]. He is the author of original screenplays such as Reflections on a Teenage Anti-Christ which was featured in a New York Times article about home offices[4]. As a sound designer, in 2003, he was nominated for a Motion Picture Sound Editors Guild Golden Reel Award for his sound editing for Dolly in the Special Venue category[5].
In 2009, he co-curated The Horror Show at Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs in New York City[6] which explored horror in film, video, installation, photography, sculpture and painting and which was featured as a The Village Voice "Voice Choice for Art", and which was accompanied by a 32-page catalog. In 2011, he co-produced Debra Kahn Tolchinsky's Fast Talk also available on iTunes[7], which investigates the accelerated speed of argumentation in college debate.
In 2012, he co-curated Shimon Attie: The Neighbor Next Door at the Northwestern Block Museum in Evanston, IL[8]. In 2013, he co-curated with Debra Kahn Tolchinsky The Presence of Absence sponsored by the Contemporary Arts Council at Hairpin Arts Center in Chicago, which was reviewed by The Chicago Tribune[9]. He was also ranked #14 on New City's Film 50 2013: Chicago’s Screen Gems[10], was the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship in Literature[11], and was voted Best Director for his play, Where's the Rest of Me? (which was nominated for Best Play and which was an adaptation of his essay)[12], at the 2015 Riant Theatre One-Act Play Festival in New York City. Also in 2015, his play Clear was published in Issue 3 2015 of Proscenium Journal [13], he was ranked number 8 with Debra Kahn Tolchinsky on New City's Film 50 2015: Chicago’s Screen Gems[14], and he co-produced (and wrote) the film, The Coming of Age, winner of a Silver medal at the LA Independent Film Review[15]. In 2016, he co-curated Sick by Seven (seven plays/films about mental health in the modern world) at A Red Orchid Theatre[16] in Chicago as part of its Incubator Series. In 2017, he was no. 7 on New City's Film 50 2017: Chicago’s Screen Gems[17]. In 2018, he co-produced Creature Companion[18], directed by Melika Bass, which received a Special Mention of the International Jury at the 2018 Oberhausen Film Festival Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, was available on MUBI[19], screened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of BAMCinemaFest, and at the Chicago International Film Festival. In October of that same year, he directed his full-length play, An Attempt to Heal in the Contemporary World, about the psychologist Wilhelm Reich, at the HB Studios Playwrights Theatre as part of the New York International Fringe Festival; the production received reviews or notices in Theatre is Easy[20], the Daily Northwestern[21], Broadway World[22], and Splash Magazine[23].
He continues to collaborate often with his spouse, the media artist Debra Kahn Tolchinsky.
References[edit]
- ↑ http://www.write.northwestern.edu
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138467/
- ↑ https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/girl/id1365284509
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/garden/06shrink.html
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000452/2003/1/
- ↑ https://www.dorsky.org/Brochure%20PDFs/horror.pdf
- ↑ https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/fast-talk/id711140487
- ↑ https://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/view/exhibitions/past-exhibits/2012/shimon-attie-the-neighbor-next-door.html
- ↑ https://www.chicagotribune.com/ct-ent-0523-hairpin-art-review-20130522-story.html
- ↑ https://newcityfilm.com/2013/10/03/film-50-chicagos-screen-gems-2013/2/
- ↑ http://www.arts.illinois.gov/news/iaca-announces-fy14-artist-fellowship-award-recipients
- ↑ https://www.broadwayworld.com/chicago/article/Northwestern-Professor-David-E-Tolchinsky-Named-Best-Director-at-Theater-Festival-20150226
- ↑ https://issuu.com/prosceniumjournal/docs/prosceniumissuethreefinal
- ↑ https://newcityfilm.com/2015/10/15/film-50-2015-chicagos-screen-gems/
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0003762/2017/1/
- ↑ http://www.lasplash.com/publish/Entertainment/cat_index_chicago_entertainment/sick-by-seven-preview.php
- ↑ https://newcityfilm.com/2017/09/28/film-50-2017-chicagos-screen-gems/
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8732590/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
- ↑ https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/melika-bass-introduces-her-film-creature-companion
- ↑ http://www.theasy.com/Reviews/FringeFestival/2018/anattempttohealinthecontemporaryworld.php
- ↑ https://dailynorthwestern.com/2018/10/11/ae/northwestern-professor-david-tolchinsky-to-premiere-play-at-nycfringe/
- ↑ https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/AN-ATTEMPT-TO-HEAL-IN-THE-CONTEMPORARY-WORLD-Comes-to-FringeNYC-20181004
- ↑ https://chicago.splashmags.com/index.php/2018/09/27/an-attempt-to-heal-in-the-contemporary-world-preview-a-dark-screwball-comedy/#gsc.tab=0
External links[edit]
- David E. Tolchinsky on IMDb
- David E. Tolchinsky at Kartemquin Films
- David E. Tolchinsky at Northwestern University
- David E. Tolchinsky on iTunes
- David E. Tolchinsky on Broadway World
- David E. Tolchinsky citations on Google Scholar
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