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MICHAEL FEINGOLD |
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Literary Agent: International Creative Management |
MICHAEL FEINGOLD has worked in the American theatre for over three decades as a translator, playwright, lyricist, director, dramaturg, and literary manager. He is best known, however, as the chief theatre critic for New York's weekly newspaper, The Village Voice, where his work has won him the coveted George Jean Nathan Award and made him a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. In 2001-2, he was named a Senior Fellow of the National Arts Journalism Program. He has taught dramatic literature, criticism, and dramaturgy at Columbia, at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and at the O'Neill Critics Institute. Mr. Feingold was the first Literary Manager of the Yale Repertory Theatre, and subsequently served as Literary Director of The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and Literary Manager of the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Mass. He is currently serving as Literary Advisor to New York's Theatre for a New Audience. He has been an O'Neill Conference Playwright and is a "Usual Suspect" at New York Theatre Workshop where he has had several readings of his own plays as well as of translations in progress. Mr. Feingold is a graduate of Columbia University and the Yale School of Drama.
Plays by Michael Feingold
Among Gentlemen | ||
| 1st Produced: | reading at Duke on 42nd Street, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #62162 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | adaptation of Henry Bernstein's Among Gentlemen | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Chairs, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Pit, London | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Pick Up Performance Co | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41248 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco | |||||
Synopsis: | The pair enter the stage, creaky and a little cranky, against a grainy film of the chair dances of their youth. They recycle well-worn domestic rituals of mild antagonism and affection, calling each other "Pussycat" and "Cookie" - the talk less important than its repetition. Then their routine takes a different turn as they receive imaginary guests, each given a chair. Gordon grows wistful at the arrival of a past lover; Setterfield flirts gleefully with the husband, shamelessly showing her moth-eaten stockings. Gradually, the visitors grow so numerous that they need rows of chairs, and the stage becomes a theatre auditorium crowded with imagined guests and ghosts. - Sanjoy Roy, Guardian | |||||
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Happy End | ||
| 1st Produced: | Whitbread Flowers Warehouse, Stratford-upon-Avon | 04 Dec 1985 | ||||
Company: | RSC | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #11475 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht. book by Dorothy Lane; music by Kurt Weill; lyrics by Bertolt Brecht; adapted by Michael Feingold | |||||
Synopsis: | Written on the heels of the phenomenally successful Threepenny Opera, Happy End again takes to task the disparity between the 'Haves' versus the 'Have-nots.' In the underworld of Chicago, 1919, a Salvation Army Lieutenant, Lillian Holiday, aka Hallelujah Lil, tries to reform a gangster, Bill Cracker, whose mob is led by the mysterious Lady in Grey (also known as 'The Fly'). During the course of the salvation, they fall in love, a robbery gets bungled, murder is attempted, there's a surprise reuniting and a 'happy' ending. Along the way we are treated to some of Weill's best songs, including 'The Bilbao Song,' 'The Sailor's Tango,' 'Song of the Big Shot,' 'The Mandalay Song,' and 'Surabaya Johnny.'" nytheatre.com contributor David Fuller (The Singapore Mikado) directs a cast headed by Joey Piscopo (Billboard, Joe Piscopo's Son) and Lorinda Lisitza. | |||||
Further Reference: | RSC ref HAQ198512 | |||||
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Japanoir | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84185 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of the 30th annual marathon of new short plays | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mary Stuart | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54096 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Friedrich von Schiller | |||||
Synopsis: | Mary Stuart dramatizes the clash of two rival royals, Mary Queen of Scots and her politically ambitious cousin, Elizabeth I of England, during a scandal-ridden, world-changing period of English history. With religion dramatically pitted against politics and womanhood poised with statesmanship, Schiller's account of Elizabeth's struggle over executing Mary or sparing her life is propelled forward through conspiracies, suicides, jealousies, explosive confrontations and suspense. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Scribe's Paradox, or The Mechanical Rabbit | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Best American Short Plays 1995 -1996" published by Applause Books 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #138614 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sodom And Gomorrah | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #11476 | |||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Souls Of Naples | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Theatre For A New Audience | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #123963 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Eduardo de Filippo | |||||
Synopsis: | Pasquale and his wife Maria move into a seventeenth century palazzo in Naples. They have been hired to live there for six months to prove that the place is not haunted. In the past two illicit lovers were caught and walled up alive. Maria is having an affair with the rich Alfredo. Pasquale comes home early one day and discovers Alfredo - but Alfredo is able to convince Pasquale that he is a ghost | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Threepenny Opera | ||
| 1st Produced: | Riverside Theatre (in Riverside Church), 91 Claremont Avenue, NY | 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96268 | |||
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Genre: | musical Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | book and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht; music by Kurt Weill; translated by Michael Feingold | |||||
Synopsis: | Public Debt is ballooning, banks are going bust, a depression is right around the corner, and Mack the Knife is leaving a trail of broken hearts and cut throats in his wake. In this masterful musical satire, love, sex, murder, and theft all become tactics for survival in a society spinning out of control | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Times And Appetites Of Toulouse-Latrec | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #11477 | |||
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Genre: | Play with songs Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | by Jeff Wanshel, lyrics by Michael Feingold | |||||
Synopsis: | As the play begins, the young Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is already in rebellion against the constraints of his noble breeding and background, and determined to become an artist. Heading for Paris, he takes up residence in a bordello (much to the dismay of his family and friends) and attends art school where his radical ideas quickly bring him into conflict with his conservative teachers. But Henri's natural milieu is more the bistros and fleshpots of Montmartre than the staid ateliers of the Academy, and as his life becomes more drunken and dissolute his art flourishes producing the great posters and paintings which have come to symbolize the Paris of the "belle epoque." Punctuating the action of the play are authentic songs of the period, written by Aristide Bruant and others (with updated English lyrics) and sung (with piano and accordion accompaniment) by such famed entertainers of the time as Jane Avril, Yvette Guilbert, and La Goulue. But amid the swirl of gaiety and good times it is soon evident that the health of the naturally frail Toulouse-Lautrec is beginning to weaken. In and out of sanitoriums, and resisting the pleas of his family to come home and of his friends to stop drinking, Henri plunges doggedly ahead on his destructive course, pursuing a destiny which leads both to an early death and to immortality and a secure place both in the history of art and in the hearts of all who dream of the glittering Paris of the can-can and the Moulin Rouge. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Uncivil Wars: Collaborating with Brecht & Eisler | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Pick Up Performance Co(S.) | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #77523 | |||
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Genre: | theatre dance work Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | |||||
Synopsis: | Uncivil Wars is Bertolt Brecht's play, The Roundheads and The Pointheads (as translated by Michael Feingold), with material from Brecht's treatises on playwriting as well as from Hanns Eisler's thoughts on composing for the theater. The work explores ideas about inspiration, collaboration and the implications of re-addressing historical works in the changed context of our present moment | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Venetian Twins, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #11478 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Carlo Goldoni | |||||
Synopsis: | slapstick foolery as twins, separated at birth, turn up again in Verona confused in love | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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What Happened Then | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lion Theatre, NY | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Resonance Ensemble | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98045 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Reflections: An Evening of Short Plays | |||||
Synopsis: | Inspired by an 18th Century narrative, Michael Feingold's What Happened Then utilizes dramatic storytelling to reveal how the fates of two men were forever intertwined by a series of unlikely coincidences | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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You Can't Think Of Everything | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #92206 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Alfred de Musset. Composer:Gary Fagin | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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