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| Taylor Mac has been named one of New York and the country's best theater artists by American Theater Magazine, The Village Voice, Time Out NY, and The New York Press. His most recent plays are: The Young Ladies Of (New York's HERE Arts Center, Manchester's Library Theater, Stockholm's Sodra Teatern, and others), Red Tide Blooming (Performance Space 122) and The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac (The Sydney Opera House, Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theatre, London's Soho Theatre, Dublin's Project Arts Center, Portland's Time Based Arts Festival, Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival, the Spoleto Festival, and over 40 additional theaters all around the globe). Vintage Press, New York Theatre Review, and New York Theatre Experience have published his plays and he is the recipient of a Sundance Theater Lab residency, a Rockefeller Map Grant, The Creative Capital Grant, The James Hammerstein Award for playwriting, The Edinburgh Festival's Herald Angel Award, two GLAAD Media Award Nomination, PS 122's Ethyl Eichelberger award, a New York State Council of The Arts Grant, an Edward Albee Foundation Residency, The Franklin Furnace Grant, a Peter S. Reed Grant, The Ensemble Studio Theatre's New Voices Fellowship in playwriting, and is currently a HERE Arts Center Resident Artist and a member of New Dramatists. |
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| Malcolm MacDonald is a writer and artist from Los Angeles. He spent five magical years teaching Theatre in Guadalajara, Mexico. He performed twice with the great Mexican director Luis de Tavira, and designed scenery and costumes for Jose Cruz Gonzalez. MacDonald lived in New York City where he worked with modern dance icons Alwin Nikolais, Murray Louis, and Hanya Holm. He premiered his first play, Wonder of the World, at the Brooklyn Arts Theater. In Hollywood, his play The Beetles was hailed by the LA Times as "a sort of mash note to living dreams, stylistically and expertly accomplished." He was on the Theatre staff at Cal State Los Angeles and L.A. County High School of the Arts, and currently teaches Theatre with L.A. Unified's Arts Branch. Please check out his Coyote Christmas Carol website at http://coyoteplay.com. |
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| Wendy MacLeod's plays Juvenilia and The Water Children premiered at Playwrights Horizons in New York. The Water Children was subsequently produced at L.A.'s Matrix Theater where it was cited as "the most challenging political play of 1998" by LA Weekly and earned six L.A. Drama Critics Circle nominations. Her plays Sin and Schoolgirl Figure both premiered at The Goodman in Chicago. Her play The House of Yes became an award-winning Miramax film starring Parker Posey, earning a Special Jury Award at Sundance. The play has also been done in L.A., at Soho Rep, at The Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, and at The Gate Theater in London, where it was selected to be published in Plays International. Her children's musical, How To Make an Apple Pie and See the World, based on Marjorie Priceman's book, premiered at The Kennedy Center. Her new play Things Being What They Are premiered in Spring 2003 at Seattle Rep, and was seen at Steppenwolf in Chicago. A New Dramatists alumna and a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Ms. MacLeod is the playwright-in-residence at her alma mater, Kenyon College. She is currently working on a commission for Steppenwolf. |
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| Dano Madden grew up in Boise, Idaho. His plays have been produced by Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Source Festival, Mile Square Theatre, Burnt Studio Productions, Northwest Playwrights Alliance, Idaho Theatre for Youth, Kitchen Theatre Company, Rutgers University and The University of Tulsa, among others. Mr. Madden's plays have received readings and/or development at Lark Play Development Center, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Boise Contemporary Theater, Boston Theatre Works and the Last Frontier Theatre Conference. He is a two time Heideman Award finalist. Mr. Madden's Kennedy Center awards include: the 2007 National Student Playwriting Award for In the Sawtooths; the 2008 Quest for Peace Playwriting Award for Beautiful American Soldier; and the 1997 National Short Play Award for Drop.
Published works include: In the Sawtooths and Drop (Samuel French, Inc.), Beautiful American Soldier (Best American Short Plays 2005-2006), Ella (Best American Short Plays 2008-2009), The Save (Playscripts, Inc.), The Soft Sand (Northwest Playwrights Alliance), and several monologues (Smith and Kraus, The Best Men's Stage Monologues and Scenes 2010).
He was the recipient of the 2001 Idaho Commission on the Arts Fellowship in playwriting. In 2007, Mr. Madden was named one of "50 Playwrights to Watch" by The Dramatist magazine. He received his BA from Boise State University and his MFA from Rutgers University. He was the 2008-2009 National New Play Network playwright-in-residence at Interact Theatre Company. He is an adjunct professor of playwriting at Rutgers University and Stockton College. Mr. Madden lives in Hoboken, New Jersey with his favorite person in the world, Lauren. |
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| Vanessa Mae is 17 and was born and raised in Rutland, Vermont. Her interests are theatre, music, dance, and teaching. She also enjoys reading and writing. She dreams of someday being an actress and living in England. If that doesn't work out she would love to be a teacher. Getting the chance to write and publish a play with her classmates has been an exciting experience. She hopes it's as much fun for others to act in or see as it was to write. |
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| Cheri Magid. Cheri Magid's plays, which include The Tavern Wench, et al;, Manna, The Cliffs of Moher, and The Lock, have been seen in New York, Los Angeles, and several points in between. Her work has been done by The Keen Company, The New Group, Women's Project and Productions, Rattlestick, La Mama, Makor, The Slipper Room, Vital Theatre Company, Abingdon Theatre Company, The Lark, and the West Bank Theatre in New York, as well as by M.Y.E Productions in LA, South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, CA, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The University of Iowa, and Calvin College in Michigan. et al; was commissioned by South Coast Repertory, which recently appointed Ms. Magid to write an adaptation of the children's story, The Reluctant Dragon. Ms. Magid was also commissioned by Playscripts and The Keen Company to write her children's play The Ghost of Enoch Charlton. Her radio play Lydia, or the Girl at the Wheel, which navigates the early days of burlesque, aired on National Public Radio in the summer of 2001. Pretty Things Press published The Cliffs of Moher in 2006; Cleis published her short story, She Grinds Her Own Coffee, in 2007; and Playscripts, Inc. published Manna in 2008 and The Ghost of Enoch Charlton in 2009. Manna was also excerpted in The Best Stage Scenes 2009, published by Smith and Kraus. Ms. Magid's short film, Carnophobia, is in post-production and her short film Hot Yoga will shoot in the fall of 2009. She is currently writing a screenplay, Story of D, for Nicole Kidman and Dan Wigutow Productions about the real story behind the writer of Story of O. Ms. Magid served as New Dramatists' Literary Director from 1995-1999 and as the New York Creative Executive for Robert Redford's film company, Wildwood Productions, from 1999-2001. She was also a member of Rattlestick's writers' group in 2001 and The Women's Project writers' group from 2005-2006. Unbeknownst to many, she writes erotica under various and sundry pseudonyms. |
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Jeni Mahoney. Ms. Mahoney's plays have been seen across the U.S., in London, and as far a field as Wagga-Wagga, Australia. Recent credits include: Running In Circles Screaming at Washington's 2008 Source Theater Festival, and Kandahar at the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference. Upcoming: Come Rain or Come Shine will be featured in Best Short Plays 2005-2006 (Applause).
The Feast of the Flying Cow... And Other Stories of War was workshopped at the National Playwrights Conference at the O'Neill Center, received its world premiere at InterAct Theater in Philadelphia, and has since been produced by And Toto Too in Denver. Feast, The Martyrdom of Washington Booth, Mercy Falls, Light, and Bad Water Juju have been variously presented at the Prop Theater's Midwestern New Play Festival (Chicago), L.A. Theater Center, Lark Theater's Playwrights Week, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, NYU's hotINK Festival, Chicago Women's Theater Alliance, and Village Rep, among others. Her one acts Throw of the Moon and American Eyes were commissioned and produced by Gorilla Rep and can be found in Plays and Playwrights 2001, edited by Martin Denton. Her one-act Light is published by Playscripts, Inc.
Excerpts from her plays can be found in numerous monologue and scene books. Ms. Mahoney is the co-Artistic Director of id Theater Company, and Artistic Director of The Seven Devils Playwrights Conference which has developed more than 62 new plays since its inception and is featured in Michael Wright's 2005 book Playwriting: At Work and Play. Ms. Mahoney teaches Playwriting at Playwrights Horizons Theater School, a studio school of New York University's Tisch School for the Arts. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. |
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| Jonah Maidoff has a BA in Drama from Kenyon College. His play Lion Hunting in North America premiered at the Burbage Theater in 1992. He is married, has two children, and lives with his family on Martha's Vineyard. |
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| Michael Maiello is a playwright, a fiction scribe, and a journalist on staff at Forbes magazine. He is also a resident playwright with Manhattan's critically acclaimed Godlight Theatre Company, where he is the co-creator, with composer Andrew Recinos, of the musical Principia, which has its New York debut 2003. Mr. Maiello's work has received other New York productions at the Joseph Papp Memorial Public Theatre, La Mama ETC, and Dixon Place. |
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| Ian Mairs is the author of fifteen plays whose titles include Bay at the Moon, Parts Unknown, Our David, She's a Big Girl Now, Nocturne at Twilight and Eb Scrooge: A Southern Fried Carol. His work has been seen in New York at Theater Row and 13th Street Repertory, regionally in Atlanta at 14th Street Playhouse, Backdoor Theater at Seven Stages and Actors Express in Florida at Theatre Jacksonville, American Stage, The Loft, and Theatre Southeast.
His latest play, The Learning Curve, the recipient of a development grant from the Jacksonville Community Foundation. It received a developmental reading at NYU in November 2012 directed by Sean Daniels (Geva) and featuring Michael Emerson (ABC'S Lost) and Jeffrey Binder (Broadway's The Lion King) in the leads. It was workshopped at Swine Palace Theater in Baton Rouge in the spring of 2012. He is currently adapting his play 7-7 for the screen and Dickens' David Copperfield for young audiences.
He received his BFA in Theatre from Florida State University (Acting) and his MFA in Dramatic Writing from Ohio University. Awards and prizes include Arts Ventures Grant from NEA and JCF. State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, and Parry/Billman Fellowship for Fine Art. Four of his plays are published by Playscripts Inc. (New York). He has taught theater courses at Ohio University, University of North Florida, Florida State College at Jacksonville and Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. He served as Artistic Director of Oasis Theater Studio from 2004-2007, producing and directing two seasons of plays the Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art.
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| Mona Mansour. The Hour of Feeling was part of the High Tide Festival in the United Kingdom as part of the Rifle Hall Plays. Urge for Going (directed by Hal Brooks) received a LAB production in the 2011 season at The Public Theater, and before that was read in New Work Now! at the Public, and developed at the Ojai Playwrights Conference. Mansour was a member of The Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group and a Playwright Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center and is currently a Core Writer at The Playwrights Center in Minneapolis. Other plays include Across the Water, Girl Scouts of America and Broadcast Yourself (part of Headlong Theater's Decade, which premiered in London) and The Way West. Her work has been developed at the Cape Cod Theatre Project, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Stage and Film, and Lincoln Center Directors' Lab. Television credits include Dead Like Me and Queens Supreme. Newest works include a piece on journalist Anna Politkovskaya for Continuum Theater and The Letter, a play co-written with Tala Manassah that premiered in November 2012 at Golden Thread's ReOrient Festival. She received an honorable mention for the 2010 Middle East America Playwright Award. Mansour received a 2012 Whiting Writers' Award for playwriting. |
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| Cindy Marcus won an acting scholarship to the Teenage Drama Workshop in Los Angeles when she was but a teen. She's made her living in show business ever since. With her husband and partner, Flip Kobler, she spent many years at Disney writing the sequels to Pocahontas, Lady And The Tramp, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, and many, many others.
Her books, Playdate - A Parent And Teachers Guide To Putting On A Play and The Ultimate Young Actors Guide, are now available through Meriweather Publishing.
She is the front man for Showdown, sharing her unique experience in Hollywood and passion for theater with a new generation of teens. As an in-demand acting coach, she helps craft young actors; as a mentor, she supports young souls. As a writer, she continues to have plays published and screenplays sold, but working with teens is her true calling. Her intensive acting class is always "sold out," and teens return year in and year out to work with her as a director. |
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| Deb Margolin is a playwright, performance artist, and founding member of Split Britches Theatre Company. She is the author of seven full-length solo performance pieces, which she has toured throughout the United States, and is the recipient of a 1999-2000 OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance. Her solo performance piece titled O Wholly Night and Other Jewish Solecisms was commissioned by the Jewish Museum of New York in 1996, and her play Critical Mass premiered at Performance Space 122 in New York in 1997. Subsequent work includes Bringing the Fishermen Home, workshopped at Dixon Place in New York City and part of the New Work Now! Festival at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, which premiered in April of 1999 at the Cleveland Public Theater under the direction of Randy Rollison; and Three Seconds in the Key, a meditation in illness, love, and basketball, which premiered at PS122 in New York and was given a workshop production at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, and premiered in April of 2004 in at Baruch Performing Arts Center under the auspices of the New Georges producing company. Index to Idioms, a solo piece by Ms. Margolin, premiered at Culture Project in New York in April of 2005. Ms. Margolin has lectured extensively at universities throughout the country, has been an artist in residence at Hampshire College and the University of Hawaii, and is currently an Assistant Professor in Yale University's Theater Studies Program. A book of Ms. Margolin's performance pieces and plays, titled Of All The Nerve: Deb Margolin SOLO, was published in 1999 by Cassell/Continuum Press. |
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| Ellen Margolis lives in Portland, Oregon, where she serves as Chair of Theatre & Dance at Pacific University. Her plays, which have been produced throughout the United States, include Picking Up the Baby, Late, American Soil, and the award-winning How to Draw Mystical Creatures. She is a founding member of Playwrights West, Portland's new-work theatre. Her most recent plays are Trying Not to Stare, workshopped at Portland Theatre Works; and When It Stands Still, written for Toy Box Theatre of Manhattan. Excerpts from her plays can be seen in the Audition Arsenal series, published by Smith & Kraus. She works professionally as a director, dialect coach, and voiceover artist, and is the mother of two very noisy boys. |
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| Ruth Margraff. Playwright and librettist Ruth Margraff is a recipient of four Rockefeller Foundation commissions, a McKnight national commission and residency with the Playwrights' Center, a Fulbright New Opera Award to Greece, and two NYSCA Individual Artist awards, in addition to awards from TMUNY, TCG/ITI, NEA, Arts International, and Meet the Composer, among others. Her work has been developed and produced throughout New York City and the U.S., as well as in Russia, Greece, Japan, India, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Netherlands, Romania, Great Britain, and Canada. Ms. Margraff is currently collaborating with Overtone Industries and the Theater of Note in Los Angeles, Big Red Media for BAM New Wave and the Apollo Theater in New York, and Seven/Vital Voices Global Partnership in Washington, D.C., as well as touring with her Café Antarsia Ensemble signed to Innova Records. She released her second album, Songs of the Table, in October, 2007, and her writing has been published by Performing Arts Journal, Kendall/Hunt, Backstage Books, American Theatre, Theater Forum, The Dramatist, Romanian Cultural Institute (CUNY), Johns Hopkins, Manchester, NuMuse Anthology (Brown), Chain (Temple), Epoch (Cornell), Conjunctions (Bard), Autonomedia, and Playscripts, among others. Ms. Margraff is an alumnae of New Dramatists and a member of Hourglass Group, Theatre Without Borders, and League of Professional Theater Women, and represented by Susan Schulman. She's an Associate Professor of the Master of Fine Arts program in Writing at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. |
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| Mike Mariano is an internationally produced playwright who currently
orbits in and around New Jersey. Sometimes he even earns money. The
Bill Show is his second collaboration with Dean Hurley. His solo efforts -- including short plays about time shifts, ancient Titans, pink
elephants, and couch sex -- have won minor distinctions and have been
produced as close as his "public ivy" alma mater and as far as Kazakhstan. |
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| Michael Marks is a former Mississippi Teacher of the Year (1988) who has received national honors, including Disney's Outstanding Teacher of the Performing Arts Award in 1995 and the Milken National Education Award in 1994. In addition, he is on the Executive Committee of the Mississippi Arts Commission, serves on the steering committee The National Arts Education Partnership. He is especially proud of leading the national charge for theatre and dance certification by the National Board for Teaching Standards, the organization charged with establishing what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do and which oversees the rigorous process through which teachers become board certified.
Having directed over 40 shows at Hattiesburg High School, he is a national officer of the National Education Association and vice-chair of the Secondary School Theatre Division of the Southeastern Theatre Conference. |
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Melanie Marnich. Melanie Marnich's plays include Quake, Blur, Tallgrass Gothic, Calling All, Cradle of Man, Beautiful Again, The Sparrow Project and These Shining Lives. Her newest play, Calling All, will be produced by the Guthrie Theater in April 2006. Cradle of Man, was developed at the 2005 O'Neill Theatre Conference, Hartford Stage's Brand: NEW Festival, the Women's Project's Women's Work Festival, Atlantic Theatre, Dallas Theater Center and Florida Stage. It will be produced at Florida Stage, Victory Gardens Theatre and The Women's Project in 2006. It was also a finalist for the 2005 Susan Smith Blackburn Award and a L. Arnold Weissberger Award nominee. The Sparrow Project was produced as part of Steppenwolf Theatre's First Look Festival in August 2005.
Blur received its world premiere Off Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club and also won the Francesca Primus Prize from Denver Center Theatre. Two of her plays, Quake and Tallgrass Gothic, have premiered at the Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival of New American Plays. Her awards include two McKnight Advancement Grants and two Jerome Fellowships from The Playwrights' Center, the Samuel Goldwyn Award, an Ohio Arts Council Grant, the Otis Guernsey New Voices Playwriting Award and the Melvoin Award from Northlight Theatre (Chicago). Her plays have also been produced or developed at New York's Public Theater, London's Royal Court Theatre, the Guthrie Theater, Arena Stage, Portland Center Stage, Geva Theatre, Hyde Park Theatre, American Theatre Company, HERE and Denver Center for the Arts. She has received commissions from the Kennedy Center, Guthrie Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage and the Children's Theatre of Cincinnati. She is a Core Member of The Playwrights' Center and a member of New Dramatists. |
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| Carl Martin spends most of his time teaching and performing Shakespeare. He has worked in the literary departments of the Old Globe Theatre and the Virginia Stage Company, and he spent several years touring as an actor with Shenandoah Shakespeare, playing roles ranging from Julius Caesar to Sir John Falstaff to Petruchio. He is also the inventor and editor of the parlor game Shakespeare in a Box. Carl currently lives in Durham, North Carolina, where he teaches acting and Shakespeare at the Durham School of the Arts. |
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