Since 2000, there has also been at least one new work each season from playwrights such as Octavio Solis and Robert Schenkkan.

As an actor, Schenkkan has appeared in numerous roles, including the 1989 film Out Cold, he also starred in the 1990 cult drama teen film Pump Up the Volume, in which he played David Deaver, the high school guidance counselor.

The Kentucky Cycle is a series of nine one-act plays by Robert Schenkkan that explores American mythology, particularly the mythology of the West, through the intertwined histories of three fictional families struggling over a portion of land in the Cumberland Plateau.

Schenkkan is the author of ten full-length plays.

Schenkkan was also named as the writer for the adaptation of the comic book Incognito published by the Marvel imprint Icon Comics.

Schenkkan is married to Maria Dahvana Headley, who wrote the memoir, The Year of Yes, currently published in nine languages.

** The Kentucky Cycle by Robert Schenkkan

* Handler ( play ), by Robert Schenkkan

Category: Plays by Robert Schenkkan

* The Survivalist by Robert Schenkkan

Benjamin McKenzie Schenkkan ( born September 12, 1978 ), known professionally as Benjamin McKenzie, is an American actor and producer.

McKenzie was born Benjamin McKenzie Schenkkan, in Austin, Texas, to Mary Frances ( Victory ), a prize-winning poet, and Pieter Meade Schenkkan.

His uncle is the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan.

Hollywood trade stories in 2005 reported plans to adapt Killraven for a theatrical motion picture, with Marvel and Sony Pictures in negotiations with Robert Schenkkan to write a script.

Robert Frederic Schenkkan, Jr. ( born 19 March 1953 ) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor, perhaps most recognizable as the character of Lieutenant Commander Dexter Remmick in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Schenkkan was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to Jean Gregory ( née McKenzie ) and Robert Frederic Schenkkan, a public television executive.

Schenkkan is the recipient of grants from New York State, the California Arts Council, and the Vogelstein and the Arthur foundations.

Schenkkan is the uncle of The O. C.

His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.

Even when he is called upon for impromptu remarks, he has notes written on the back of handy envelopes.

Segovia has written about Carl:

Carl says it is the greatest poem ever written to the guitar because he has never heard of any other poem to that subtle instrument.

Mercer has also written both music and lyrics for several songs.

This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.

( Judy Tristano now has poems as well as ballads written for her.

Patchen does read some of his earlier works to music, but he has written an entire book of short poems which seem to be especially suited for reading with jazz.

Since little is known about autism, and almost nothing has been written for the layman, we'd like to share one experienced mother's comments.

There is even one set that has `` barbecue '' written on it.

`` Great satire has always been clearly written and readily understandable '', I said.

Carl Kauffeld has written to me of sexual activity in February 1943 of young born in March 1940.

Here is the best short explanation of the origins of the Cold War that has been written.

Employer representatives have contended that the Secretary has gone beyond his authority by such a prohibition, on the grounds that the Wagner-Peyser Act requires only written notice to the prospective worker that a dispute exists.

`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.

R. B. Gregg has written that `` non-violence and good will of the victim act like the lack of physical opposition by the user of physical jiu-jitsu, to cause the attacker to lose his moral balance.

For the `` tide is well on the turn '', as the London Catholic weekly Universe has written.

But the book is written around a somewhat dizzy cartoonist, and it has to be that way.

Equally penetrating in its fashion is the following remark by a lady in the course of a literary conversation: `` So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it ''.

For this story of an American couple who meet and fall in love in Israel, Mr. Herman has written songs that are warmly melodious and dance music that sparkles.

One looked forward to Mr. Remarque's ninth book if only because not even a reasonably good novel has yet been written grounded on automobile racing, as dramatic a sport as mankind has devised.

At various times in the more than 100 years that have elapsed since the song was written, particularly during the John F. Kennedy administration, there have been efforts to give " America the Beautiful " legal status either as a national hymn, or as a national anthem equal to, or in place of, " The Star-Spangled Banner ", but so far this has not succeeded.

* Barbara Younger has written a children's book about the writing of the song: Purple Mountain Majesties: The Story of Katharine Lee Bates and " America the Beautiful ".