I Interview Playwrights Part 207: Ken Weitzman

Ken Weitzman

Hometown:
Great Neck, NY. I'm a Great Necker.

Current Town:
Bloomington, Indiana. I teach at IU.

Q:  What are you working on now?

A:  I'm working on an adaptation of a non-fiction book by Lars Anderson. It's called Carlisle vs. Army. It's about a 1912 football game between the Carlisle Industrial Indian School and the Cadets at West Point. Barely 20 years after the massacre at Wounded Knee, Native Americans and the US Army were squaring off on the football field. Jim Thorpe...