James Penzi
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James Penzi is an American poet and playwright. His poems have been published in numerous small press periodicals and literary journals, including Mundus Artium (Univ. of Texas), kayak, Montana Gothic, Caligula Press (England), Contact II.
His plays revolved around the theme of disconnectedness. “The Gentlemen of Fifth Avenue” (1983) was about the hermetic, interdependent Collyer brothers
who were found in their Fifth Avenue mansion dead among 140 tons of debris; it was accepted by the Philadelphia Drama Guild for its Playwrights of Philadelphia (POP) Festival. It was also one of three plays selected for the ld Globe of San Diego’s Best New Plays Festival, a national competition. His second full-length play, “Doesn’t The Sky Look Green Today?” (1985), a play about a doomed ménage à trois, was a semi-finalist in the FDG/CBS new plays competition.
He received story credit for a horror film, Night of the Demons 2 – a cult classic series created by screenwriter Joe Augustyn
, with whom he also collaborated on another script, Beautiful Dreamer.
His plays revolved around the theme of disconnectedness. “The Gentlemen of Fifth Avenue” (1983) was about the hermetic, interdependent Collyer brothers
Collyer brothers
Homer Lusk Collyer and Langley Wakeman Collyer , known as the Collyer brothers, were two American brothers who became famous because of their bizarre nature and compulsive hoarding...
who were found in their Fifth Avenue mansion dead among 140 tons of debris; it was accepted by the Philadelphia Drama Guild for its Playwrights of Philadelphia (POP) Festival. It was also one of three plays selected for the ld Globe of San Diego’s Best New Plays Festival, a national competition. His second full-length play, “Doesn’t The Sky Look Green Today?” (1985), a play about a doomed ménage à trois, was a semi-finalist in the FDG/CBS new plays competition.
He received story credit for a horror film, Night of the Demons 2 – a cult classic series created by screenwriter Joe Augustyn
Joe Augustyn
Joe Augustyn is a screenwriter and film producer. Born in Philadelphia, he pursued painting and cartooning before attending Temple University where he studied film theory and basic production....
, with whom he also collaborated on another script, Beautiful Dreamer.
Selected bibliography
- Dream on the eyelids of the moon (c. 197?)
- Salt Fever: poems (1976) ISBN 0913386081
- Scene/s in Bk & Wht (1982)
- Cairns (1984)
- Runes (c. 1982) (unpublished - manuscript can be found in the archives of the Sun & Moon Press, the Charles Bernstein, and/or Susan HoweSusan HoweSusan Howe is a American poet, scholar, essayist and critic, who has been closely associated with the Language poets, among others poetry movements. Her work is often classified as Postmodern because it expands traditional notions of genre...
papers at the University of San Diego)