Breadcrumb Home Misery and megalomania: How David Adjmi became a playwright Monday, July 13, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/theater/david-adjmi-lot-six.html University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop graduate David Adjmi's new memoir “Lot Six” traces the Syrian-Jewish enclave that spawned him, the instructor who unnerved him, and the biting comedy that made his name.