JOE PRAML, Playwright, Stage Director, Performance Reader of Poetry, Tenants' Rights Activist
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    • Playwright: McKnight Foundation Humanities Award For Drama
    • Playwright: "The Pearl" "The Moneyman" - McKnight award winning one-acts
    • Playwright: London, Praml's "The Trick"
    • Playwright: London, Praml's "Jason"
    • Director: Drama-Logue Award, "Once A Catholic," Celtic Arts Center
    • Director: O'Malley's "Once a Catholic," Drama-Logue review
    • Director: O'Malley's "Once a Catholic": Variety, LAWeekly reviews
    • Director: O'Neill's sea plays, Los Angeles Times review
    • Director: O'Neill sea plays, two reviews
    • Director: "The Au Pair Man: Staged reading
    • Director: Hugh Leonard's "The Au Pair Man" Celtic Arts Center
    • Director: Reviews: Leonard's "The Au Pair Man"
    • Joe Praml: Stage manager. England
    • Joe Praml, stage actor, London, "About Poor B.B."
    • Actor: Joe Praml, London, Quantrill in Lawrence" by Bernard Pomerance
    • Actor: London: Reviews: Nathanael West's "Miss Lonelyhearts"
    • Actor: London: Wallace's "On The Spot"
    • Actor: Joe Praml, Edinburgh Festival
    • Reader: Irish Herald article, Joe Praml reads Dylan Thomas poetry
    • Reader/Director: 2010 Bloomsday, Celtic Arts Center
    • Reader: 2009 Bloomsday, Celtic Arts Center
    • Reader: Joyce's Ulysses, director: Fionnula Flanagan
  • STAGE PLAYS
    • Playwright: Joe Praml's JASON: Summary, Script
    • Playwright: Jason - reviews
    • Playwright: Joe Praml's Mayfly Night
    • Playwright: Joe Praml's The Pearl
    • Playwright: Joe Praml's The Trick
    • Playwright: Joe Praml's The Moneyman
    • Playwright: Anatol, Joe Praml's adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's play
    • Playwright-Joe Praml: POLDROCK, Monologue
  • SCREENPLAYS
    • Screenwriter: Joe Praml's ...And The Horseman's Name Was Death
    • Screenwriter: Joe Praml's Kidsplay '47
  • JFC! NOVEL
    • JFC! Frankenstein
    • JFC! A Tear in Glasgow, Caine Mutiny
  • ARTICLES, ESSAYS, LTRS
    • Joe Praml: Thatcher's Britain and The Iron Lady
    • Joe Praml defines "hip"
    • Joe Praml: Bill Evans-Stan Getz album
    • Joe Praml: Boxing, Savage World, Hurricane Carter
    • Joe Praml's London Time Out article
    • Joe Praml: Hugh Leonard's The Au Pair Man
    • Joe Praml essay: Seamus Heaney: KPFK radio program "Keeping Going"
    • Joe Praml's article about CES and West Hollywood Cityhood
    • Joe Praml's LA Stage Times article: directing The Au Pair Man
  • Community Activist
    • Rent Stabilization Commissioner
    • LAWeekly Best of LA: Tenants' Rights Counselor
    • Joe Praml--CES blog-West Hollywood City Council meeting
    • W Hollywood Certificate of Commendation
    • WHollywood Rent Stabilization Commissioner
  • Audio-Readings
    • Dylan Thomas Live Readings
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  • Christmas+Easter
    • Joe Praml's The Night That Changed The World
  • Smiley's People

                        JASON

                                  by Joe Praml
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                                      A Little Theatre Production


London premiere:
The Little Theatre Club
Empire House
16/19 Upper St. Martins Lane
London


​Director:  David Myles
Cast:
Ian Bamforth - Jason                              Sid Huggett - The Old Man
Brendan Donneson - Finnegan               Diane Bull - The Old Lady; Susan
Chris Baker                                            Simon Scott - Larry
Terry Haig


Joe Praml’s Jason is an intelligent and ambitious play, with a distinct theatrical vision. In Jason, the argument that mindless, faceless corporate machines are dominating the instincts and loyalties of the individual feels very contemporary. A great strength of this play is the magic realism element. The juxtaposition of the mundane with the extraordinary creates unsettling, disturbing dramatic landscapes, in which the petty shallowness of a modern world is exposed in action that consistently disturbs rather than dictates. David Myles’ direction heightens the dark humour of the piece and his casting of Ian Bamforth as Jason, Brendan Donneson as Finnegan and Sid Huggett as The Old Man is brilliant. Sid Huggett as The Old Man is powerful, Ian Bamforth as Jason chilling.
—International Herald Tribune, London, England




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London premiere of JASON at the Little Theatre Club, Upper St. Martin's Lane, London WC2. Ian Bamforth as Jason and Brendan Donneson as Finnegan
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Sid Hugget as The Old Man. London premiere of JASON, The Little Theatre, Upper St. Martin's Lane, London WC2