Adam Klasfeld is a journalist and playwright. He has written and directed several theater plays and is a journalist for the

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and also a regular reporter for a variety of news outlets.

Education

He studied theatre at

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and followed up on his studies at the Academy of Theatre in

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under Richard Digby Day.

Theater career

His acting career began early at the Rutgers Cabaret, and since he has performed on several stages in the United States and Europe. He is often involved with the theater company called One Armed Man. In July 2009, his play ''The Report of My Death'' was performed on board a ship on the

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. He also organized a theater festival at the

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Journalistic career

As a journalist he has reported about the trial of the Iranian businessman

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, who circumvented the US sanction regime on Iran and also in a similar case in which

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, a Turkish state owned bank, is also accused of circumventing the US sanctions against Iran. The access to an article he wrote about a money courier of Reza Zarrab, was banned by a court in

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on the 23 September 2020. Other relevant events he covered in his articles were the attempted impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump and the trial of Michael Cohen, a former lawyer to

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. He was accused by the Turkish newspaper

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of being a complicit of the so-called terrorist organization FETÖ, the movement of

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Plays

* ''I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill's Lover, Last Night'' * ''The Prostitute of Reverie Valley'' * ''Good Fences Make Good Neighbors''

References

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