Toni Schlesinger

Toni Schlesinger is a journalist, theater artist, and fiction writer. She was the author of "Shelter", a long-running column in The Village Voice between 1997 and 2006, and in New York Observer between 2006 and 2007.[1]

A selection of her columns in The Village Voice appear in the book Five Flights Up, published in 2006 by Princeton Architectural Press. Tom Hanks praised the book as a must-read. Playwright Tony Kushner, in his review of it, wrote, "Toni Schlesinger’s book describes this relationship of the accidental to the profound, the domestic to the totally weird; she visits, draws out and celebrates this permanent impermanence better than anyone ever has."

Prior to her affiliations with The Village Voice and New York Observer, Schlesinger was a writer and columnist for the Chicago Reader from 1977 to 1992, where she collaborated with illustrator Tom Bachtell.

Works

Schlesinger's theatrical career as a writer, designer and performer includes the following works:

  • The Mystery of Pearl Street at Dixon Place, 2014; inspired her seventeen-year investigation of the real-life 1997 disappearance and presumed murder of artists Camden Sylvia and Michael Sullivan following a dispute with their landlord.[2] Reviewing The Mystery of Pearl Street, The Village Voice wrote that the "material is genuinely fascinating."[3]
  • The Mystery of Oyster Street at Dixon Place, 2012; a fictional, two-person interrogation play starring Drew Hildebrand and Esme Von Hoffman
  • When The World Broke In Two: A Visit With Willa Cather at the Metropolitan Playhouse, 2010 [4]
  • The Toni Schlesinger Show, Puppet Lab at St Ann's Warehouse, 2007 [5]
  • Lobster Village, at HERE's Dream Music Puppetry Program at the Great Small Works Toy Festival, 2003, for two puppets.

References
  1. "Toni Schlesinger". The New York Observer. Archived from the original on 7 April 2015.
  2. Wilson, Michael (2012-05-29). "Missing Couple's Legacy: Shards of Hope". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  3. http://www.villagevoice.com/2014-02-12/theater/the-mystery-of-pearl-street |publisher=The Village Voice
  4. "Log in or sign up to view". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  5. Brooklyn Paper preview
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