Laugh It Up, Stare It Down

Alan Hruska was the author of several plays, including LAUGH IT UP, STARE IT DOWN (The Cherry Lane Theatre, 2015), THE MAN ON HER MIND (Charing Cross Theatre, London, 2013) and NEW HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION (59E59), New York, 2008–09, which he also directed. He was a filmmaker who wrote and directed or co-directed four films: Nola (2003), The Warrior Class (2006), Reunion (2009), and The Man on Her Mind (2014). As a novelist, his books included Borrowed Time (Doubleday 1985), Wrong Man Running (Severn House and Thomas & Mercer 2011), and Pardon the Ravens (Prospect Park Books 2015). In 2005 he made his New York debut as a stage director with an acclaimed production of WAITING FOR GODOT at Theatre at St. Clements. Among his other professional accomplishments, Hruska was for many years a successful trial lawyer and partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and was a co-founder of the New York book publishing company Soho Press. Hruska was a director of the Lark Play Development Center in New York and a member of the Actors Studio, Playwrights and Directors Unit. He passed away in 2022 at the age of 88.