Jon Robin Baitz

Jon Robin Baitz

infobox actor
birthdate=birth date and age|1961|11|4
birthplace=Los Angeles, California
occupation=Stage, film actor
domesticpartner=Joe Mantello (1990-2002)

Jon Robin Baitz (born November 4, 1961 in Los Angeles, California) is an American playwright, screenwriter, television producer and sometime actor.

The son of an executive of the Carnation Company, Baitz was raised in Brazil and South Africa before the family returned to California, where he attended Beverly Hills High School. [Isenberg, Barbara. [http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/51891059.html?dids=51891059:51891059&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Mar+26%2C+2000&author=BARBARA+ISENBERG&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Theater%3B+This+Gofer+Has+Become+a+Definite+Go-To+Guy%3B+With+'Mizlansky%2F+Zilinsky's'+return%2C+Jon+Robin+Baitz+looks+back+at+how+far+he's+come.&pqatl=google "Theater; This Gofer Has Become a Definite Go-To Guy; With 'Mizlansky/ Zilinsky's' return, Jon Robin Baitz looks back at how far he's come."] , "Los Angeles Times", March 26, 2000. Accessed April 24, 2008. "A graduate of Beverly Hills High School, Baitz honed his craft not in college, which he did not attend, but rather at the now-defunct Padua Hills Playwrights' Festival."] After graduation, he worked as a bookstore clerk and assistant to two producers, and the experiences became the basis for his first play, a one-acter entitled "Mizlansky/Zilinsky". He again drew on his own background for his first two-act play, "The Film Society", about the staff of a prep school in South Africa. Its 1987 success in L.A. led to an off-Broadway production with Nathan Lane the following year, which earned him a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding New Play. This was followed by "The End of the Day" starring Roger Rees and "The Substance of Fire" with Ron Rifkin and Sarah Jessica Parker.

In 1991, Baitz wrote and directed the two-character play "Three Hotels", based on his parents, for a presentation of PBS's "American Playhouse", then reworked the material for the stage, earning another Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding New Play for his efforts. In 1993, he co-scripted (with Howard A. Rodman) "The Frightening Frammis", which was directed by Tom Cruise and aired as an episode of the Showtime anthology series "Fallen Angels". Two years later, Henry Jaglom cast him as a gay playwright who achieves success at an early age - a character inspired by Baitz himself - in the film "Last Summer in the Hamptons"; the following year he appeared as Michelle Pfeiffer's business associate in the screen comedy "One Fine Day". In 1996, he was one of the three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for his semi-autobiographical play "A Fair Country".

Subsequent stage works include "Mizlansky/Zilinsky or "Schmucks"", a revised version of "Mizlansky/Zilinsky" directed by Baitz's then-life partner Joe Mantello (1998), a new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" (first at L.A.'s Geffen Playhouse with Annette Bening in 1999, then at Long Island's Bay Street Theater with Kate Burton in 2000, followed by a Broadway production with the same star the following year), "Ten Unknowns" (2001), starring Donald Sutherland and Juliana Margulies, and "The Paris Letter" (2005) with Ron Rifkin and John Glover. His screenplays include the adaptation of his own "Substance of Fire" (1996), with Tony Goldwyn and Timothy Hutton joining original cast members Rifkin and Parker, and "People I Know" (2003), which starred Al Pacino.

Baitz's occasional work writing for such television series as "The West Wing" and "Alias" led to his present position as creator and executive producer of the ABC TV drama "Brothers & Sisters", which premiered in September 2006.

Personal life

From 1990 to 2002, Baitz was the romantic partner of actor [ibdb title|4569|Angels in America: Millennium Approaches] and director [ibdb title|13485|Wicked] Joe Mantello. "The Advocate" wrote that the "couple's star quality lent the aura of a gay Lunt and Fontanne." [ [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2005_July_19/ai_n15631042 Jon Robin Baitz] ] Before Mantello, Baitz briefly dated actor David Marshall Grant, [ [http://community.tvguide.com/forum.jspa?forumID=700009576 Robbie's Brothers & Sisters Blog] ] who now works for him as a staff writer on the show "Brothers & Sisters".

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