Musical Performance / Yiddish Night
with Lori Leifer & Jack Feldstein

THE LOSER WHO WON!

Come be taken on a 30-minute journey through a most fortuitous moment in the simple life of John Brinkman, the protagonist of THE LOSER WHO WON.

Written by Jack Feldstein with musical accompaniment (in Yiddish!) by Lori Leifer.

There will be pizza, beer, and a Yiddish folk music sing-a-long - and maybe some erev Hannukkah songs - to follow the story.

LORI LEIFER has a broad career as a singer, actor, musician and community organizer. She is best known for her work as a singer/actor with the NYC National Yiddish Theater (Folksbiene) traveling musical theater troupe, The Troumpenikes.  

She spent many years as both director and student of the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education's Art Fellowship Program, where she organized Jewish, female artists in NYC to make art out of Talmudic aggadot (stories). She eventually learned enough Talmud to start writing an album of her own, original, folk songs, with 3 songs so far which tell of the Talmudic characters - Choni HaMaagel, Nachum Ish Gamzu and Reb Jose. 

Lori spent years building Jewish and Yiddish song repertoire by participating in NYC's Jewish People's Philharmonic Yiddish Choir at The Workmen's Circle and in The Nashir/Rottenberg Hebrew Music Choral at the Lucy Moses School near Lincoln Center. She now enjoys taking that repertoire (and her keyboard) around the NYC nursing home circuit, bringing Jewish elders back to their roots through song.  
Lori is a proud eynikle (direct descendent) of the great Ndvorna chasidim (of Premishlan) who were known for their music, chesed and skills on the fiddle. And to follow in that vein, she also dabbles in chazzanus (Jewish cantorial music).
You can listen to Lori singing her most favorite songs on her website: www.lorileifer.com

JACK FELDSTEIN is an award-winning writer and neon animation filmmaker. His almost thirty neon animation films, including The Ecstasy of Gary Green, The Adventures of James Joyce and A Wondrous Film about Emma Brooks have screened worldwide from Lincoln Center and NY's Angelika Cinema to Rotterdam International Film Festival and Sydney International Film Festival. His neon animation films about scriptwriting, The Fantastical World of Scriptwriting and The Psychology of Scriptwriting have also been internationally acclaimed. His neon animations inspired top New York Fashion designer Norma Kamali to create neon fashion and together Feldstein and Kamali created 3D fashion films for NY Fashion Weeks 2011 and 2012. 

As a writer, his playscripts including A House Like Any Other and Three Months with Pook have won prizes in Australia, Britain and the USA.  His plays have been staged with many productions in Australia, New York and all over the USA. Falling in Love with Mr Dellamort is his first foray into the astonishing world of musical theater, a genre about which he is now madly passionate. Originally from Australia, he lives in New York City and develops his plays at Workshop Theater in Midtown where he is an artist member.  His philosophy is "search for an interesting life".  For more information please see  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Feldstein