About me
ALLEN LEWIS RICKMAN is an actor, writer and director. He played Velvel, the shtetl husband, in the Coen brothers’ Oscar-nominated A SERIOUS MAN and also translated the Coens’ dialogue into Yiddish. Other film work includes John Turturro’s FADING GIGOLO (with Liev Schreiber), CHINESE PUZZLE (with Audrey Tautou) and THE COBBLER (with Dustin Hoffman). TV credits include Barry Levinson’s Emmy-winning “You Don’t Know Jack” (with Al Pacino & John Goodman), recurring roles on “Boardwalk Empire” and Steven Spielberg’s “Public Morals,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (as Red Skelton), Michael Moore’s “The Awful Truth,” Buck Henry’s “Are We On?,” two “Law & Order” series, etc. Broadway: RELATIVELY SPEAKING (with Marlo Thomas). Off-Broadway: New York premiere of Maurine (CHICAGO) Watkins’ SO HELP ME GOD! (with Kristen Johnston), Schnitzler’s FAR AND WIDE for the Mint, THEDA BARA AND THE FRONTIER RABBI for JRT and York, THE SHANGHAI GESTURE for Mirror Rep, etc.; Regional: Cleveland Play House, Paper Mill, Two River, etc. Rickman has directed Off-Broadway and regionally including his own musical CHRISTMAS AT THE SMALL EMPIRE, and the Drama Desk-nominated Yiddish PIRATES OF PENZANCE, which he also co-adapted.He is an internationally-produced playwright and his work has been presented in six languages.
