Otto …the play

Otto is a new stage play by William Dorian about an aristocratic Jewish family caught up in the vortex of the early days of the Holocaust – a family already dealing with the trauma of emotional child abuse caused by an irrational mother and dominated father. Adapted from portions of the book Otto, the Boy at the Window by Peter Abeles and Tom Hicks, the play chronicles the Abeles family’s efforts to deal with the unstable Karla while desperately trying to escape from Nazi Europe.

Dorian has a Masters degree in theater from Tulane University and has also studied at the University of London. He has taught theater at both Cumberland University in Lebonen Tn., and Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Ky. He is currently the Theater critic for the Nashville Pride newspaper.