John Strand

John Gregory Strand is a contemporary American playwright. At times he has published under the name "J.G. Strand". Among his plays are Lincolnesque, Three Nights in Tehran, The Diaries, Otabenga, and The Originalist. Tom Walker is an adaption of The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving. He has also written a number of English-language adaptions of plays written in French: among these are Lovers and Executioners, for which he won the 1999 Charles MacArthur Award; The Miser (Molière); Lorenzaccio ; Hat! ; and Hernani. In 1985 he launched a Paris-based literary magazine called Paris Exiles. A novel, Commieland, appeared in 2013.