Shelter Island Public Library’s Friday Night Dialogues program presents a talk with Leah K. Friedman entitled, “I’m 91 years old! What do you want from me?”
Friedman is a playwright and artist who works in various mediums, including acrylic on canvas. She’ll speak on Friday, October 7 at 7 PM with cartoonist Peter Waldner, who curates exhibits in the library’s gallery.
“Leah is an artist who is led by her hand and her heart and inspired by her childhood memories and the Holocaust,” the library says on the event notice. Follow this link to register using the library’s online form.
About Leah K. Friedman
In 1988, Friedman received the New York Foundation for the Arts Playwrights Fellowship for her play, “Club Soda.” Set in post-World War II Brooklyn, it followed young characters struggling to adapt to adult challenges after high school.
Her play “Rachel Goes to the World’s Fair in 1939” won the 1994 Yaddo Fellowship and the 1986 National Foundation for Jewish Culture Playwrights Award. Among her other plays are “The Rachel Plays,” “Another Bride, Another Groom,” and “This is Harriet’s Play.”
Friedman also wrote and illustrated “Essie Finkelstein: Monologues for an actress,” a semi-autobiographical series of 49 monologues that tell Essie’s story from birth to her 97th year. After it was published in 2014, and Friedman previewed it for the library’s Friday Night Dialogues audience.
She and her husband, Victor Friedman, a renowned hairstylist, photographer, and photojournalist who died in 2020, first came to Shelter Island in 1961, building their beloved Strawberry Lane home a few years later.
Next up: FND presents Heather Reylek, performing original songs, Friday, October 14 at 7 PM
