Since 1993, Simon has been the Producing Director/Dramaturg for the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles. His stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby inaugurated the Guthrie Theater's new $125M theatre complex in July 2006, opened at Seattle Rep in November 2006, and is in preparation for a commercial run in London. His critically-acclaimed production of ...
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Since 1993, he has been the Producing Director/Dramaturg for The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles. [February 2006]
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He once directed Annette Bening in The Mousetrap while they were both students at San Francisco State University.
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He won the PEN West Literary Award for his stage adaptation F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night, and has written the official stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby.
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He has the film rights to Lee Blessing's
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His theatre company, The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles, is considered one of the premiere theatres in Los Angeles, and is the only theatre to win 3 Los Angeles OVATION Awards for Best Production. He produced the world premiere of Athol Fugard's Exits and Entrances in 2004 which is in negotiations for worldwide productions.
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