Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Ben Simkhovitch

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
MacDowell Fellowships: 1942

Playwright and screenwriter Ben Simkhovitch is known for the film The Spider (1945).

Studios

Irving Fine

Ben Simkhovitch worked in the Irving Fine studio.

Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…

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