The playwright ofJobisnt trying to change hearts and minds.
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This profile was originally published on January 17, 2024.
With the news thatMax Wolf FriedlichsJobiscoming to Broadway, we republished it on May 28, 2024.
Perhaps as a result, he has a certain unbothered, button-pushing bravado.
It is a blithely unaware, or perhaps blithely calculated, thing to say to a journalist.
Friedlich is a gentle, droopy-eyed Manhattan kid who was clearly well supported by his well-off parents.
(A line fromJob: Everyones racist and were all alone.
Its a very simple psychological trick to play on a child.
it’s possible for you to be a warrior.
you’re able to choose to be confident, he explains.
It really worked on me.
From there, I started doing theater.
He submitted a script the next year and was chosen for the festivals showcase.
They spend time precociously holding forth about sex, race, and girls while dropping a lot of F-bombs.
The Black friend also sleeps with his hosts mother.
For college, Friedlich followed his father to Wesleyan.
After graduating, he moved to Los Angeles, planning on a career in Hollywood.
I was showing people to their seats at Enrique Iglesias concerts.
Friedlich wrote her Instagram captions and monitored her DMs.
The job led him to ghostwrite actual human-celebrity social-media accounts, though his NDAs prevent him from saying whose.
In 2018, he met a stressed-out real-life content moderator at a house party and began writingJobthe next year.
Theyre both returning for the run at the Connelly.
As Jane says, The phone is never the problem.
People do bad things, not phones.
Julianne Moore came one night, and Hugh Jackman posted about it.
Because if you live in New York, holy shit I got one for you.
What is exciting to me is that young people were excited about the show.
But hes not, he insists, trying to moralize about big tech.
Whats more interesting to me is the base act of getting a bunch of people together.
Call it theater for the boys, he says, half-kidding.
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