He is by temperament a collector, and the innumerable hours he has spent scouring flea markets, villages, and artisans' workshops have deeply affected his work.
"We never expected that the workshop would turn out to be genuine art therapy, and the results were incredible," said Amir Tagiev, a psychologist from Moscow who has spent months working with the children of Beslan, and who attended the workshop.
"The church has spent too much time concentrating on fish frys and workshops," Father Pfleger told parishioners at one recent Sunday Mass.
"Beslan is really tense now, especially as the first anniversary approaches," says Amir Tagiev, a psychologist from Moscow who has spent months working with the children of Beslan, and who participated in a UNICEF photo workshop for Beslan children in July.
A couple of years earlier, the pupil had joined a Shakespeare workshop and had spent a couple of hours working on the play's first scene.
He had run a week of workshops, then the team had spent another week writing and filming a test episode.
But the pair, who met in a playwriting workshop at Harvard in 1985, have spent much of their careers weaving together intricate story lines on character-driven television series with large ensemble casts like "L.A. Law" and "Sisters".
I've spent those years workshopping Our Lady, and the upcoming New York City premiere is the greatest accomplishment of my life.
MDM, a props workshop well known in the art world for their work for Kapoor, Marc Quinn, the Chapman brothers and Damien Hirst, have spent months in their London workshop building two long wooden cylinders, covering them with polystyrene and working the surface into a bumpy, moon-like texture, or that of a beaten piece of meat.
They will have spent a month in workshops with 32 local artists.
