Drew Denbaum
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Drew Steven Denbaum December 12, 1949 Brooklyn, New York, US |
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Drew Denbaum (born 1949 in Brooklyn, New York) is an award-winning American writer, actor, director, and educator, with credits in theater, film, and television.
Denbaum graduated cum laude with honors from The Lawrenceville School (1967) and Yale University (1971), where he was awarded the Saybrook Fellows’ Prize and was close friends with the author and critic, William A. Henry III, and the poet and psychologist, Steve Benson.
Denbaum’s playwriting credits include Ways of Loving and Secrets, both based on stories by Brendan Gill and produced in New York City at West Park Theater and Stage 73. Denbaum’s play, The Last of Wilhelm Reich was developed at Theatre Artists Workshop after more than a decade of research on the controversial psychoanalyst, scientist, and social activist, Wilhelm Reich.
Denbaum’s directing credits in the theater include Hatful of Rain by Michael V. Gazzo at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, The Poet and the Rent by David Mamet at the Henry Street Settlement Theatre, and Secrets at Stage 73, all in New York City. Notable theater performances by Denbaum include Marat in Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss, directed by Lynne Meadow; Uriah in Mann ist Mann by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Evangeline Morphos; Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, directed by Leland Starnes; Wilhelm Reich in The Last of Wilhelm Reich, directed by Denbaum; and August Strindberg in Strindberg's Dollhouse by Vivian Sorvall, directed by Mark Graham.
Denbaum began his film career as a story analyst at Columbia Pictures and joined Cannon Films as assistant to the President in Charge of Production, Christopher C. Dewey. Denbaum was Associate Producer of the feature films, Jump!, directed by Joe Manduke, and Who Killed Mary What’sername?, directed by Ernest Pintoff. While attending the Institute of Film and Television at New York University, Denbaum won First Prize in the 20th Century Fox Screenwriting Competition in 1975 for his original screenplay, Caught in the Act, about the Bay of Pigs invasion by the Central Intelligence Agency. Denbaum’s next screenplay was the science fiction dark comedy, The Sky is Falling, developed by director John G. Avildsen for Universal Pictures.
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