Amnon Kabatchnik Wins Benjamin Franklin Awards Silver Medal for BLOOD ON THE STAGE

Amnon Kabatchnik was honored with a Silver Medal in the Benjamin Franklin Competition for his latest book, Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery and Detection.

An annual awards competition named in honor of America's most cherished publisher/printer, the Benjamin Franklin Award recognizes excellence in independent publishing. In this prestigious awards program, publications are grouped by genre and judged on editorial and design merit by top practitioners in each field. The Benjamin Franklin Award is sponsored by the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), the largest not-for-profit trade association in the book industry. This year's awards competition garnered nearly 1300 individual entries.

In Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000, Silver Medialist in the Reference Category of the Benjamin Franklin Awards, Kabatchnik, an award-winning director and professor, provides an overview of the milestone plays of crime, mystery and detection produced in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000 continues the study of Kabatchnik's previous volumes (Blood on the Stage, 1900-1925; Blood on the Stage, 1925-1950; andBlood on the Stage,1950-1975), works which have garnered high critical praise.

A comprehensive and meticulously-researched volume, Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000 examines a time period that for sheer adventure, excitement and heart-pounding thrills, may be the genre's most intriguing era. The plays encompass suspenseful melodramas, psychological thrillers, baffling whodunits, and even musicals, including such memorable works as Deathtrap, American Buffalo, Death and the Maiden, A Few Good Men, Sweeney Todd, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and The Phantom of the Opera.

Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, Amnon Kabatchnik received his BS degree in theatre and journalism from Boston University where he graduated summa cum laude, and won the Rodgers & Hammerstein Award. Kabatchnik also holds an MFA degree in directing from the Yale School of Drama. He served as Professor of Theatre at several universities, including Stanford University and Ohio State University, and directed numerous dramas, comedies, thrillers and musicals for off-Broadway, national road companies, resident theatres, summer stock, and abroad. In addition to the Blood on the Stage volumes, Kabatchnik is also the author of Sherlock Holmes on the Stage: A Chronological Encyclopedia of Plays Featuring the Great Detective. Visit Amnon Kabatchnik online at: www.amnonkabatchnik.com.

Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000 (Scarecrow Press, Hardcover, 608 pages, ISBN: 978-0-8108-8354-3, $125.00) is available wherever fine books are sold. Blood on the Stage is also available in an eBook edition.

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