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Ian Ruskin. TPMA Board Member. Ian Ruskin has worked extensively in theatre, television and film in England and Los Angeles. His lifelong interest in social justice led him to found The Harry Bridges Project in 2000.
To Begin the World Over Again: the Life of Thomas Paine is the very personal story of one of history’s most misunderstood men. He moved through the world challenging the dogma and superstitions that had ruled the lives of the masses for centuries, and embracing the Age of Enlightenment.
Seven short films based on Ian Ruskin's one-man play "To Begin the World Over Again: the life of Thomas Paine" and Paine's own words. Discover what Paine, and most of the Founding...
To Begin the World Over Again: The Life of Thomas Paine: With Elliott Gould, Ian Ruskin. Thomas Paine's life was a great arc. He arrived in Philadelphia as a remarkably unremarkable thirty-seven-year-old only to change the world, and then have the world he changed turn its back on him.
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Feb 11, 2016 · Ian Ruskin will present “To Begin the World Over Again: The Life of Thomas Paine” Saturday, February 13, 3 p.m. at the Faulkner Gallery, S.B Central Public Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Call (805) 962-7653.
Jun 29, 2017 · “We have it in our power to begin the world over again,” wrote Thomas Paine in Common Sense, a pamphlet of less than fifty pages, published in January of 1776, months before the Declaration of Independence was drafted. In clear and robust prose, Paine urged his fellow Americans to do the unthinkable, the…
Thomas Paine was the one truly radical Founding Father of America, a man who is largely forgotten and greatly misunderstood today. This is a film of Ian Ruskin’s acclaimed one man play about Paine’s life, filmed in front of a live audience at the Lillian Theatre in Hollywood, CA.
