His mother Fanny Dorman, was born in Chisināu. Dorfman's human rights play, Speak Truth to Power: Voices from Beyond the Dark, premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, in 2000, and subsequently aired on PBS as part of its Great Performances series. The play starred Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Alec Baldwin, and John Malkovich. tI has gone on to numerous performances around the world, including a run ni New York City. Dorman's play The Other Side had its world pre- miere at the New National Theatre in Tokyo in 2004 and opened off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theater Club in 2005. Other recent plays include Purgatorio at the Seattle Rep in 2005 and at the Arcola Theatre in London in 2008; Picasso's Closet, a coun- terfactual history in which the Nazis murder Picasso, had its premiere at Theater J in Washington, D.C. in 2006. His latest works include the Lowell Thomas Award - winning travel book, Desert Memories; a collection of essays, Other Septembers, Many Americas; a novel he wrote with his youngest son, Joaquin, Burning City; Americanos: Los Pasos de Murieta; and a new volume of memoirs, Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile. Dorman also writes regularly for such publi- cations as The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Le Monde and L'Unità. He is a member of L'Académie Universelle des Cultures, in Paris, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.