Richard kalinoski biography
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For Kalinoski, the Play’s the Thing
Between 1973 and 1979, Kalinoski was married to an Armenian-American woman. “She wasn’t particularly interested in Armenian history, which is slightly ironic, but I was,” he noted.
One play he wrote about Armenians in America in a small community, “inspired by her grandparents, both of whom had survived the genocide,” helped him get into graduate school at Carnegie Mellon College “They [her grandparents] weren’t desperately old, but they were older,” he said.
“My former wife’s grandfather established himself in a business in Racine, Wis. but he never learned to speak English.
Replete with subtle dialogue and irony, playwright Richard Kalinoski's work examines the fragility of human life and relationships.
But his wife did and I spent a lot of time with her.”
He continued, “They had children. The children eventually became adults and the adult children helped him out. He knew a few words but I have an image of him walking around the yard and grumbling in Armenian.”
“I’ve always looked at the Armenian struggle from a little more distance than a lot of Armenians because th
