Jonathan Blitstein is a current

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film producer, former playwright, and indie filmmaker. He currently runs Tandem Pictures, and previously was an executive at Astronauts Wanted, (affiliated with

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) and Disney Digital Network, a subsidiary of

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. Blitstein directed the independent mumblecore film ''

Let Them Chirp Awhile ''Let Them Chirp Awhile'' is a 2007 independent drama-comedy by Jonathan Blitstein, filmed in just eighteen days in New York during October 2006. The film was produced by Anouk Frosch and Jonathan Blitstein. It was photographed by Andrew Shulkind ...

'' and a play, ''Keep Your Baggage With You,'' for which he won the New York Innovative Theatre Award in 2011.

Personal life and education

Blitstein was born on October 28, 1982 in Lincolnshire, Illinois. Blitstein graduated with a BFA from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television Production at the Tisch School of the Arts." Blitstein previously studied acting at

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, the Piven Theatre Workshop,

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, and Primary Stages.

Plays

* ''Squealer'' produced with Lesser America in Spring 2011 * ''Keep Your Baggage With You (at all times)'' (2009) (First produced at Theater for the New City part of the Dream Up Festival, Summer 2010)

Films

* ''Black Bear'' (2020) - Producer * ''The Surrogate'' (2020) - Producer *''

'' (2007) Feature Film *''Another Kind'' (2011) Feature Film

References

External links

Interview with Blitstein from Film Intuition Magazine
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