{"id":8282,"date":"2017-01-11T15:39:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T19:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=8282"},"modified":"2024-09-17T15:10:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T19:10:31","slug":"joetracz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/joetracz\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Fortune Uncovers the Latest &#8220;Unfortunate Series&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8283\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8283\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8283 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/01\/LemonySnicket.jpg\" alt=\"Lemony Snicket Series\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/01\/LemonySnicket.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/01\/LemonySnicket-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/01\/LemonySnicket-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Joe Lederer\/Netflix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thank god for moms! Without them we wouldn&#8217;t have learned about the K connection to the new (or at least new for Netflix) series <em>Lemony Snicket&#8217;s A Series of Unfortunate Events<\/em>. <strong>Joe Tracz &#8217;04<\/strong> is one of the writers on the new series, and his mom sent word about the release (in two days, on FRIDAY THE 13th!) to <strong>Ed Menta<\/strong>, the James A.B. Stone College Professor of Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Her note was not so much about her son as it was about wanting to inform current students of the infinite possibilities of a K education. &#8220;We all appreciate what the Kalamazoo College environment did\/does to guide these possibilities,&#8221; wrote Deb Tracz.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Lemony Snicket\u2019s A Series of Unfortunate Events<\/em><\/strong> is Netflix\u2019s newest all-ages series drop, culling an eight-episode first season from the first four books in Snicket\u2019s best-selling 1999-2006 children\u2019s novel series. The story recounts the tragic tale of the Baudelaire orphans&#8211;Violet, Klaus, and Sunny&#8211;whose evil guardian Count Olaf will stop at nothing to get his hands on their inheritance. The siblings must outsmart Olaf at every turn, foiling his many devious plans and disguises, in order to discover clues to their parents\u2019 mysterious death.<\/p>\n<p>Neil Patrick Harris starts as the evil Count Olaf. Other actors featured in the series include Don Johnson, Patrick Warburton, Joan Cusack, Catherine O&#8217;Hara, Alfre Woodard, Usman Ally and Aaaif Mondvi. The executive producer is Emmy Award winner Barry Sonnenfeld.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Tracz is a playwright, screenwriter and librettist. His work includes <em>Poster Boy<\/em> (with Craig Carnelia; Williamstown Theatre Festival); <em>Be More Chill<\/em> (with Joe Iconis; Two River Theater); and <em>Song For a Future Generation<\/em> (Williamstown, The Management). His adaptation of the first book in the Percy Jackson series, <em>The Lightning Thief<\/em> (with Rob Rokicki; Theatreworks USA) received a Lortel nomination for Outstanding Musical. His plays have been developed at Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre Company and Second Stage, and published in <em>Best American Short Plays<\/em>. At K Joe majored in English and studied abroad in London, England. Two of his plays, <em>Alison Shields<\/em> and <em>Phenomenon of Decline<\/em> were produced by Festival Playhouse of Kalamazoo College. Both received regional awards from the American College Theatre Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the 13-book series written under the pen name Lemony Snicket (a.k.a. Daniel Handler), <em>A Series of Unfortunate Events<\/em> has been printed in 41 different languages, with sixty-five million copies sold as of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Joe. And thank you, Deb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank god for moms! Without them we wouldn&#8217;t have learned about the K connection to the new (or at least new for Netflix) series Lemony Snicket&#8217;s A Series of Unfortunate Events. 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Without them we wouldn&#8217;t have learned about the K connection to the new (or at least new for Netflix) series <em>Lemony Snicket&#8217;s A Series of Unfortunate Events<\/em>. <strong>Joe Tracz &#8217;04<\/strong> is one of the writers on the new series, and his mom sent word about the release (in two days, on FRIDAY THE 13th!) to <strong>Ed Menta<\/strong>, the James A.B. Stone College Professor of Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Her note was not so much about her son as it was about wanting to inform current students of the infinite possibilities of a K education. &#8220;We all appreciate what the Kalamazoo College environment did\/does to guide these possibilities,&#8221; wrote Deb Tracz.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Lemony Snicket\u2019s A Series of Unfortunate Events<\/em><\/strong> is Netflix\u2019s newest all-ages series drop, culling an eight-episode first season from the first four books in Snicket\u2019s best-selling 1999-2006 children\u2019s novel series. The story recounts the tragic tale of the Baudelaire orphans&#8211;Violet, Klaus, and Sunny&#8211;whose evil guardian Count Olaf will stop at nothing to get his hands on their inheritance. The siblings must outsmart Olaf at every turn, foiling his many devious plans and disguises, in order to discover clues to their parents\u2019 mysterious death.<\/p>\n<p>Neil Patrick Harris starts as the evil Count Olaf. Other actors featured in the series include Don Johnson, Patrick Warburton, Joan Cusack, Catherine O&#8217;Hara, Alfre Woodard, Usman Ally and Aaaif Mondvi. The executive producer is Emmy Award winner Barry Sonnenfeld.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Tracz is a playwright, screenwriter and librettist. His work includes <em>Poster Boy<\/em> (with Craig Carnelia; Williamstown Theatre Festival); <em>Be More Chill<\/em> (with Joe Iconis; Two River Theater); and <em>Song For a Future Generation<\/em> (Williamstown, The Management). His adaptation of the first book in the Percy Jackson series, <em>The Lightning Thief<\/em> (with Rob Rokicki; Theatreworks USA) received a Lortel nomination for Outstanding Musical. His plays have been developed at Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre Company and Second Stage, and published in <em>Best American Short Plays<\/em>. At K Joe majored in English and studied abroad in London, England. Two of his plays, <em>Alison Shields<\/em> and <em>Phenomenon of Decline<\/em> were produced by Festival Playhouse of Kalamazoo College. Both received regional awards from the American College Theatre Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the 13-book series written under the pen name Lemony Snicket (a.k.a. Daniel Handler), <em>A Series of Unfortunate Events<\/em> has been printed in 41 different languages, with sixty-five million copies sold as of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Joe. And thank you, Deb.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8282"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23156,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282\/revisions\/23156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8282"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=8282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}