Howard Ginsberg

Howard Ginsberg

Playwright Howard Ginsberg draws upon his extensive experience as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist to explore and illuminate the complexity of his characters. Four of his theatre plays have been successfully produced in both the UK and U.S., including a BBC Radio adaptation (starring Alan Bates). He has been a member of the Dramatists Guild for over 25 years. He is represented internationally by Mike...
Playwright Howard Ginsberg draws upon his extensive experience as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist to explore and illuminate the complexity of his characters. Four of his theatre plays have been successfully produced in both the UK and U.S., including a BBC Radio adaptation (starring Alan Bates). He has been a member of the Dramatists Guild for over 25 years. He is represented internationally by Mike Sharland, director of The Sharland Organisation in England: tso@btconnect.com

Plays

  • MY MATISSE
    Seven women trace the arc of Matisse’s secret life and revolutionary art as he becomes obsessed with ”that bandit” Picasso. (Has also been written as a one woman monologue embodying all seven women.)
  • JEFFERSON & ADAMS
    The inspiring lives of Thomas Jefferson and John and Abigail Adams woven together in a moving story.. The play spans their many years of close but turbulent friendship up to their simultaneous deaths on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
  • WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW
    A seductive patient sees a seductive therapist known as Dr. Guilt because that's what she needs--and lots of it. Or so her mysterious husband says.
  • MURDER IN PARIS
    A famous mystery writer's daughter is found shot dead in her Paris apartment. It appears to be suicide, but Inspector Mercier investigates the father, Georges Simenon, who has written a story--almost a blueprint--about a young girl who resembles his daughter and commits suicide.
  • WHERE OR WHEN
    Playwright writes a play about a friend facing financial ruin and contemplating suicide, but the friend rebels against the role written for him-- and wants to change the plot as well. The playwright uses the lyrics of the Rodgers & Hart song, “Where or When,” to drive the play to its shattering conclusion.
  • ESTEEM
    A much admired “good soldier” ends a long affair with his best friend’s wife, desperately trying to win the love and esteem of his fragile young ward.
  • THE MYSTERIOUS GIFT TO VIRGINIA WOOLF
    Artist Vanessa Bell does an enigmatic painting of a London society party scene as inspiration for her sister, Virginia Woolf’s famous novel, MRS. DALLOWAY. But Virginia keeps the painting hidden away all her life. A play within the play provides the surprising explanation and denouement.
  • MADOFF'S PONZI PARTNER
    The untold story of Madoff’s secret accomplice in the biggest Ponzi scheme ever--revealed the night before Madoff decides to confess his crime. His accomplice escapes justice by suicide.