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Simon Levy is the Producing Director for the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles where he's been a resident playwright, director, and producer since 1993. His stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby, a Finalist for the PEN Literary Award in Drama, completes his Fitzgerald Trilogy, which includes Tender is the Night (Winner of the PEN Literary Award in Drama) and The Last Tycoon (winner of numerous awards and nominated for the prestigious Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Ted Schmitt Award for Original Play), all published by Dramatists Play Service. His stage adaptation of Eliot Weinberger’s celebrated article, What I Heard About Iraq, was produced worldwide, including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (where it won the Fringe First Award); the Adelaide Fringe Festival (where it won the Fringe Award); was produced by BBC Radio; and received a 30-city UK tour culminating in London. He has been honored with the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Milton Katselas Lifetime Achievement Award in Directing. He is the author of other plays, short stories and poems... and his directing and producing credits are numerous. - Wikipedia
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night and his most famous, The Great Gatsby. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age. - Wikipedia