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Todd London has been a leading figure in the U.S. nonprofit theater for more than 35 years, in recognition of which he became the first recipient of Theatre Communications Group’s (TCG) Visionary Leadership Award for "an individual who has gone above and beyond the call of duty to advance the theatre field as a whole, nationally and/or ...
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Todd London is a master conjurer of the lost—of lost youth,...
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Todd London is the the Director of the newly formed...
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Todd London is a master conjurer of the lost—of lost youth, lost promise, lost Chicago, lost America. In If You See Him, Let Me Know, London has penned a memorably bittersweet and heartfelt love letter to a bygone age that feels both immediate and timeless, infused with both hope and regret.
Heralded by Publisher's Weekly as "a writer to watch" with a "magnificent sense of character and ear for dialogue," Todd London is an award-winning novelist and essayist, whose second novel, If You See Him, Let Me Know, was published this February by Austin Macauley.
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TZ: I know all too well what it’s like to have one particular book project take years, even decades to complete, no matter how productive or prolific you might be more generally. When did you start working on If Your See Him, Let Me Know, and what challenges did you face in finishing it? TL: There are two answers to the when question: the first is ...
TZ: If You See Him… largely takes place in a fictionalized version of a summer theatre camp run by two actress sisters, who are based on the real-life pair Pearl and Sulie Harand. I recognize many of my own memories in your re-telling. I also recognize many other characters, events, and other details—although I’m not sure whether these memories are...
TZ: One character takes on the persona of Anne Frank during her last summer at camp—a particularly poignant image as many of us “shelter in place” during the Covid-19 pandemic. Outside camp, too, much of the story involves the scars of Holocaust survivors and WWII vets. How do you see the relationship between these painful historic events and subur...
TZ: You published this novel with British publisher Austin Macauley and mention how helpful their team was in your acknowledgements. (The editor in me immediately noticed the British punctuation, but I got over it.) What exactly is a hybrid publisher, and would you recommend that other writers consider it? Also, I see on your websitethat you have t...
Todd London is the the Director of the newly formed Dramatists Guild Institute for Field Learning and teaches at the New School School of Drama, where he most recently headed the MFA Playwriting Program.
Feb 28, 2020 · Todd London brilliantly captures the world of a theatre summer camp in the early 70’s - the kids and adults who take it so seriously - the depth, tenderness, and fragility of this tight knit summer community - the way the different generations bounce off each other - and how history shapes who we grow up to be.
Todd London's first novel, The World's Room, received a Milestone Award for fiction. It was hailed by novelist Lorrie Moore as "a stunning first book…written as if by a spellbinding and spellbound angel". His books include: An Ideal Theater; The Importance of Staying Earnest; 15 Actors, 20 Years; and This Is Not My Memoir (co-author Andre ...
