Dr. Anthony Hostetter is the creator of Holocaust documentary theatre works that incorporate the verbatim testimony of Holocaust survivors. His plays have been performed in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. He created and directed four new one-woman plays (Rella, Rose, and I: Elizabeth Ehrlich Roth's Story of Survival, I am Itkolo: The Story of Itka Frajman Zygmuntowicz, Try to Survive: Rose Ickowicz Rechnic's Memory of the Holocaust, and Girl in a Striped Dress: The Holocaust Story of Rosalie Lebovic Simon) which received their world-premiers at Rowan University on April 27 and 28, 2020. Anthony wrote and directed the 2018 production of Hell on Earth: Manya Frydman Perel's Shoah Experience. The next play in the series was the full-length work Five Survivors Tell the World, which...
Dr. Anthony Hostetter is the creator of Holocaust documentary theatre works that incorporate the verbatim testimony of Holocaust survivors. His plays have been performed in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. He created and directed four new one-woman plays (Rella, Rose, and I: Elizabeth Ehrlich Roth's Story of Survival, I am Itkolo: The Story of Itka Frajman Zygmuntowicz, Try to Survive: Rose Ickowicz Rechnic's Memory of the Holocaust, and Girl in a Striped Dress: The Holocaust Story of Rosalie Lebovic Simon) which received their world-premiers at Rowan University on April 27 and 28, 2020. Anthony wrote and directed the 2018 production of Hell on Earth: Manya Frydman Perel's Shoah Experience. The next play in the series was the full-length work Five Survivors Tell the World, which had its world premier at Rowan University in November 2023. He then plans on creating one-act plays that shares the stories of hidden children during the Holocaust. Hostetter recently published an article on the subject of creating Holocaust theatre titled, “Embodying History: Preserving Memories of Holocaust Survivors Through Performance” in Critical Stages/ Scenes Critiques.