Simckes, Lazarre Seymour: - Lazarre Seymour Simckes, playwright, novelist, psychotherapist, and translator from the Hebrew, has taught at Harvard, Yale, Williams, Vassar, Brandeis and Tufts, as well as at Bar-Ilan and Haifa University in Israel.A graduate of Harvard College (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Stanford University (Wallace Stegner Writing Fellow, M.A.), and Harvard University (Ph.D.), Simckes has conducted live, interactive writing workshops via television linking middle school and high school students across the country. During his Fulbright year at Haifa University, he conducted a writing workshop (Celebrating Differences) linking Israeli Arab and Jewish high school students with their American counterparts via satellite.He has received numerous awards: a Littauer Foundation Playwriting Grant, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant, a National Jewish Book Award for his translation from the Hebrew of Nava Semel's novel Becoming Gershona, and a Literature Award from the National Endowment of the Arts for his original screenplay The Human Windmill which was a finalist at the Beverly Hills Film Festival of 2018. His film work includes a commission from the director Sidney Lumet for an adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's novel The Last Temptation of Christ.As a practicing psychotherapist, Simckes has worked with multi-problem families and incarcerated sex-offenders.