Toni Schlesinger is a journalist, theater artist, and fiction writer. She was the author of "Shelter", a long-running column in The Village Voice between 1997 and 2006, and in New York Observer between 2006 and 2007.[1]

A selection of her columns in The Village Voice appear in the book Five Flights Up, published in 2006 by Princeton Architectural Press. Tom Hanks praised the book as a must-read. Playwright Tony Kushner, in his review of it, wrote, "Toni Schlesinger’s book describes this relationship of the accidental to the profound, the domestic to the totally weird; she visits, draws out and celebrates this permanent impermanence better than anyone ever has."

Prior to her affiliations with The Village Voice and New York Observer, Schlesinger was a writer and columnist for the Chicago Reader from 1977 to 1992, where she collaborated with illustrator Tom Bachtell.

Works

Schlesinger's theatrical career as a writer, designer and performer includes the following works:

  • The Mystery of Pearl Street at Dixon Place, 2014; inspired her seventeen-year investigation of the real-life 1997 disappearance and presumed murder of artists Camden Sylvia and Michael Sullivan following a dispute with their landlord.[2] Reviewing The Mystery of Pearl Street, The Village Voice wrote that the "material is genuinely fascinating."[3]
  • The Mystery of Oyster Street at Dixon Place, 2012; a fictional, two-person interrogation play starring Drew Hildebrand and Esme Von Hoffman
  • When The World Broke In Two: A Visit With Willa Cather at the Metropolitan Playhouse, 2010 [4]
  • The Toni Schlesinger Show, Puppet Lab at St Ann's Warehouse, 2007 [5]
  • Lobster Village, at HERE's Dream Music Puppetry Program at the Great Small Works Toy Festival, 2003, for two puppets.

References

  1. ↑ "Toni Schlesinger". The New York Observer. Archived from the original on 7 April 2015.
  2. ↑ Wilson, Michael (2012-05-29). "Missing Couple's Legacy: Shards of Hope". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  3. ↑ http://www.villagevoice.com/2014-02-12/theater/the-mystery-of-pearl-street |publisher=The Village Voice
  4. ↑ "Log in or sign up to view". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  5. ↑ Brooklyn Paper preview
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