The Fountain’s LA premiere of My Name Is Asher Lev, starring Jason Karasev, Anna Khaja and Joel Polis, has earned wide critical acclaim including being highlighted as Critic’s Choice in the Los Angeles Times. And thank you for letting me celebrate my birthday with your cast and crew.” The Q&A after was very rewarding and great fun for me. Your production of the play cuts deeply into the emotions of that family I was very moved. After seeing the Fountain production of the stage adaptation of his father’s novel, Akiva commented to director Stephen Sachs: “Indeed it was a wonderful night. It was another unforgettable night at the Fountain.Īkiva Potok is a filmmaker living in Beverly Hills.

Potoks novel The Promise received the Anthenaeum Prize, and his novel The Gift of Asher Lev was awarded the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. For example, The Chosen won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award.

Akiva Potok, son of the novel’s author Chaim Potok, attended the play, engaged the audience in a post-show discussion following the performance, and celebrated his birthday with the Asher Lev company upstairs in the cafe. Throughout his distinguished career as a writer and scholar, Potok has received numerous awards. The story begins with Ashers curious 'gift' - a power he first remembers as consuming him at the age of four. We were so pleased and honored to welcome a special guest to a recent performance of our critically acclaimed production of My Name Is Asher Lev at the Fountain. Rather, My Name is Asher Lev is intended to be a 'defense' of Art, what Asher calls 'a long session in demythology' (p. Akiva Potok with the cast from ‘My Is Asher Lev’ Author’s Son Enjoys The Play And Celebrates His Birthday

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