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Iris Dorbian

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Iris Dorbian is a former actress turned arts and business journalist and award-winning novelist. Her articles have appeared in a wide number of outlets that include the Wall Street Journal, Forbes.com, Thomson Reuters, Crain's NY Business, Business Insider, PE Hub, Venture Capital Journal, Buyouts, Investopedia.com, DMNews, CFO.com, Playbill, Backstage, Theatermania, Dance Magazine, Live Design, Media Industry Newsletter and PR News. From 1999 to 2007, Iris was the editor-in-chief of Stage Directions. She is the author of “Great Producers: Visionaries of the American Theater," (Allworth Press); "An Epiphany in Lilacs: In the Aftermath of the Camps" (third edition, Sunbury Press/Milford House Press); "Sentenced to Shakespeare" (Sunbury Press ...more

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Iris Dorbian After two years of unemployment, she was thrilled to finally land a job--and in her dream industry, no less.

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An Epiphany in Lilacs: In t...

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Next Stop, Boston

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Sentenced to Shakespeare

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New article on re-release/third edition of "An Epiphany in Lilacs"

Not that anyone on this platform seems to care (oh well) but I thought I'd post this beautiful article in the current editions of the Jewish Standard and New Jersey Jewish News. It's on the re-release/third edition of "An Epiphany in Lilacs" and why it warrants republication more than ever. Thank you to the Jewish Standard for the piece and to my publisher Sunbury for republishing my book. https:/ Read more of this blog post »
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“I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.”
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