| FAHRENHEIT 451 To Be Adapted For Broadway Stage by Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 10:59 am EST 11/08/24 | |
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| RAY BRADBURY'S GROUNDBREAKING NOVEL FAHRENHEIT 451 TO BE ADAPTED FOR THE BROADWAY STAGE BY PULITZER PRIZE WINNER MARTYNA MAJOK Tony and Olivier Award winning producers Glass Half Full Productions (POTUS, Betrayal) and Aaron Glick (Kimberly Akimbo, What the Constitution Means to Me) have announced that a new, Broadway-bound stage adaptation of Ray Bradbury's seminal novel FAHRENHEIT 451 is in development with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok (Cost of Living, Sanctuary City). For more information, or to sign up to receive news on the world premiere production, visit FahrenheitLive.com. Bradbury's hauntingly prophetic classic is set in a not-too-distant future, where a fireman's role is not to put out fires, but to start them. Books are forbidden and burned, and those who defy the rules to preserve them – and the dangerous ideas they contain – are tracked down and punished. With uncanny insight into the potential of technology, over seventy years from its first publication, Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose still has the power to dazzle and shock. The novel's enduring popularity over seven decades has led to over 12 million copies sold worldwide. It has been translated into more than 58 languages – and has had a continuous place on school curriculums for many generations. Since it was first published in 1953, Fahrenheit 451 has served as inspiration for countless artists across many genres and mediums. Majok said, "The relevancy of mind domination and the end of the world in our current age needs no words; what struck me most in Fahrenheit 451 was its lens on our loneliness. How our yearning for connection and fear of its absence can be feasted upon. How we long to devote ourselves to something true and lasting in a fracturing society. And the ways we blow up our lives to unearth the truth we've buried – which will shatter us into our most honest selves. As Bradbury writes, 'We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in awhile.'" "It is a privilege and thrill to bring this seminal novel to the stage, with one of our most visceral and acclaimed living writers," said the producers in a statement. "Mr. Bradbury's and Ms. Majok's works both stem from the deeply human and personal, and we're excited by the significance of this collaboration." The Bradbury Estate commented that, "We are delighted to bring Fahrenheit 451 to a new audience, with the impact and intimacy that only theater can offer, to be working with producers who care so deeply for the work and with Martyna Majok, a truly great dramatist of enormous intelligence, sensitivity and skill." Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), one of the best known writers of our time, was the author of more than three dozen books, including Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes, and over 500 short stories. Bradbury's writings have found their way into hundreds of anthologies and textbooks, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read program. His works have been adapted into numerous film, television and stage productions, translated into 58 languages and sold many millions of copies. He wrote for the theater, cinema and TV, including the screenplay for John Huston's Moby Dick for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, the teleplay of his The Halloween Tree won an Emmy Award, and he adapted sixty-five of his stories for The Ray Bradbury Theater television series. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize special citation amongst many other prestigious awards. The Bradbury estate is represented for non-literary rights by the Theseus Agency - www.theseus.agency Martyna Majok was born in Bytom, Poland and raised in Jersey and Chicago. She was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her Broadway debut play, Cost of Living, which was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. Other plays include Sanctuary City, Queens, and Ironbound, which have been produced across American and international stages, and the libretto for Gatsby: An American Myth, with music by Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett. Other awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, Arthur Miller Foundation Legacy Award, The Obie Award for Playwriting, The Hull-Warriner Award, The Academy of Arts and Letters' Benjamin Hadley Danks Award for Exceptional Playwriting, The Sun Valley Playwrights Residency Award, Off Broadway Alliance Best New Play Award, The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding New Play, The Hermitage Greenfield Prize, as the first female recipient in drama, The Champions of Change Award from the NYC Mayor's Office, The Francesca Primus Prize, two Jane Chambers Playwriting Awards, The Lanford Wilson Prize, The Lilly Award's Stacey Mindich Prize, Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award, Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play from The Helen Hayes Awards, Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, ANPF Women's Invitational Prize, David Calicchio Prize, Global Age Project Prize, NYTW 2050 Fellowship, NNPN Smith Prize for Political Playwriting, and Merage Foundation Fellowship for The American Dream. Martyna studied at Yale School of Drama, Juilliard, University of Chicago, and Jersey public schools. She was a 2012-2013 NNPN playwright-in-residence, the 2015-2016 PoNY Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center, and a 2018-2019 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. Martyna has developed TV projects for HBO and is writing feature films for Plan B/Pastel/MGM/Orion and Killer Films. Glass Half Full Productions is an international theatrical production company dedicated to producing creatively ambitious, commercially, and artistically successful work that reflects our values in the West End, on Broadway, and in Australia. Recent Broadway highlights include: "Maybe Happy Ending" (Belasco), "), "POTUS" (Shubert Theatre), "Betrayal" (Harold Pinter and Bernard B. Jacobs, Broadway), and "Seawall/A Life" (The Hudson Theatre). Recent UK credits include: "Reverberation" (Bristol Old Vic), "Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York) (Kiln, The Criterion), "Dr Semmelweis" (Harold Pinter), "Bleak Expectations" (The Criterion), "The Seagull" (Harold Pinter), "Cyrano de Bergerac" (Playhouse, Harold Pinter, Glasgow Theatre Royal), "9 to 5: The Musical" (The Savoy), "Back to the Future: The Musical" (The Adelphi & First National U.S. Tour), and "The Wider Earth" (Natural History Museum). Australian credits include: "Peter and the Starcatcher," "Holding Achilles," " "Muriel's Wedding the Musical," "Matilda," and "My Fair Lady" on tour. The GHF team is made up of Gareth Lake (Producer), Victoria Weinberg (US Producer), Leila Sykes (UK Producer), Clemmie Forfar (UK Producer), Pip Brignell (General Manager) and Matt Colyer (Team Assistant and Office Manager). www.glasshalffullproductions.co.uk Aaron Glick is a Tony and Olivier Award-winning producer. Broadway, Touring and West End Credits include: A Wrinkle in Time (Upcoming), Sweeney Todd (Tony Nomination), Kimberly Akimbo (Tony Award), What the Constitution Means to Me (Tony Nomination), & Juliet (West End only), The Boys in the Band (Tony Award), Fully Committed, Gypsy (Olivier Award), and The Old Man and the Old Moon. Aaron is also a producer with David Stone and has worked on such shows as: Three Days of Rain, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Wicked, Next to Normal, If/Then, War Paint, and the Tony-Winning Topdog/Underdog. Aaron is a Full Member of the Broadway League, a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College, and the recipient of Hal Prince's T Fellowship. |
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