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MARCUS GARDLEY |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Abrams Artists Agency represented by Morgan Jenness |
Marcus Gardley is a poet-playwright who was awarded the 2011 PEN/Laura Pels award for Mid-Career Playwright. His most recent play, Every Tongue Confess, premiered at Arena Stage starring Phylicia Rashad and directed by Kenny Leon. It was nominated for the Steinberg New Play Award, the Charles MacArthur Award and was a recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. His musical, On The Levee, premiered last summer at LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater and was nominated for 11 Audelco Awards including outstanding playwright. Last spring, his play, And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi, was produced at The Cutting Ball Theater and received the SF Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award nomination for outstanding new play and was extended twice. He has had six plays produced including dance of the holy ghost at Yale Repertory Theatre (now under a Broadway option,) (L)imitations of Life, at the Empty Space in Seattle, and like sun fallin in the mouth at the National Black Theatre Festival. He is the recipient of a Helen Merrill Award, a Kesselring Honor, the Gerbode Emerging Playwright Award, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre Award, the Eugene ONeill Memorial Scholarship, and the ASCAP Cole Porter Award. He holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale Drama School and is a member of New Dramatists, The Dramatists Guild, and The Lark Play Development Center. He is a professor of Playwriting at Brown University.
Plays by Marcus Gardley
and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi | ||
| 1st Produced: | Exit Theatre San Francisco, USA | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Cutting Ball Theater | |||||
| 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 | #81535 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi is a poetic retelling of the Demeter myth set during the Civil War and narrated by the Mississippi River. Having run away from a plantation in Arkansas, a father travels South in search of his daughter Poem. En route, he is murdered and resurrected into the goddess Demeter by way of devine intervention. Now having the power to upset the balance of nature, Demeter continues her journey to find Poem despite the fact that the world will flood in three days if she doesnt set Mother Nature right. The goddess arrives on a plantation in the rich fertile landscape of Louisiana (a modern day Elysian field), where her daughter was a slave. Although Poem is not there and eventually discovered to be in limbo, what Demeter unearths changes her course entirely. In this epic bricolage, myth, spirituality, Gods and mortals are all woven together to examine the complex and profound fabric that is the American quilt. | |||||
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Bitter Seraph of Sugar Hill, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Red Room | 20 Jan 2011 | ||||
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 | #123906 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
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Notes: | This is a program of six new short plays by African American writers, presented as part of The Fire This Time Festival. The plays are: The Scorpion and the Fox by Jesse Cameron Alick, The Big Crunch or. . .(the eternal return) by Christine Jean Chambers, Exodus by Camille Darby, The Bitter Seraph of Sugar Hill by Marcus Gardley, Breakfast by Yusef Miller, and Third Grade by Dominique Morisseau. | |||||
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Blossoming of Andromachae | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Slant Theater Project | |||||
| 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 | #78255 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Originally performed under the overall title "Obstruction Plays" with five other plays. | |||||
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Chicago is Burning | ||
| 1st Produced: | 31 May 2013 | |||||
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 | #137759 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Set in Bronzeville in Chicago, the exhilarating drama with music Chicago is Burning takes you to the underground ball competitions where anyone in the communities in this African American and Latino, gay and transgender subculture can be a star or a supermodel for one night. Theyve come to strike a pose, vogue, walk, dance, compete, love, bitch and be themselves. The multiple award-winning young playwright Marcus Gardley and Victory Gardens Artistic Director Chay Yew team up for a celebration of a new kind of American family built across lines of race, class and gender. | |||||
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CouchWorks | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | Slant Theatre Project | |||||
| 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 | #83293 | |||
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Notes: | written by Rachel Axler, Evan Cabnet, Marcus Gardley, Adam Knight, Adam Rapp, Theresa Rebeck, Mat Smart | |||||
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dance of the holy ghosts | ||
| 1st Produced: | Yale rep | Mar 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 | #56932 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Oscar Clifton prefers to live his memories rather than his life. But when his estranged grandson comes calling after eighteen years, Oscar must face a very different version of his past. Together, what future can they make when they are so alike they cant stand each other? Something is going to have to arouse them; something beyond the smell of sweet potato pie and the muddy blues of the Deltasomething supernatural. dance of the holy ghosts is a poetic family drama that waltzes from the hilarious innocence of a childhood crush to the heartbreak of a ruined marriage. It is a memory-scape that arouses all the senses, wakes the imagination, and leaves no stone unturned. | |||||
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Dream Chain, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Michael Weller Theater, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | FLUX Theatre 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 | #66327 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | part of The Dream Project, which is described as "an exploration of Pedro Calderon de la Barca's La Vida es Sueno through a series of staged readings of adaptations of Calderon's masterpiece. An adaptation of La Vida es Sueno written by multiple authors, each writing only one scene from the play. Contributing playwrights include: Sheila Callaghan, Marcus Gardley, Amlin Gray, Carmen Rivera, Adam Szymkowicz and Candido Tirado | |||||
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Let Every Tongue Confess | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arena Stage - Mead Center for American Theater, 1101 Sixth Street, SW, Washington, DC 20024 >>> | 09 Nov 2010 | ||||
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 | #111794 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | In the backwater town of Boligee, Alabama, the summer heat is rising higher, driving the townsfolk to distraction and conjuring the spirits of the past to walk the earth. Wrapped in the combustible music of a Deep South juke joint and the sweat-soaked gospel of a revivalist church tent, intergenerational stories of loss and redemption collide. Based upon biblical stories and events in the towns history, Every Tongue Confess awakes a fiery theatrical furnace in which some will be saved, some will be purged, and the truth cannot escape. | |||||
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like sun falling in mouth | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2003 | ||||
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 | #67113 | |||
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Limitations of Life | ||
| 1st Produced: | Empty Space Theater, Seattle | 2004 | ||||
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 | #67114 | |||
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livin' tired | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2003 | ||||
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| 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 | #67115 | |||
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Love Song For The Night In Gaul | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 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 | #74258 | |||
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On The Levee | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lincoln Center Theater, New York | 2010 | ||||
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 | #111549 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Music and lyrics by Scott Almond; book by Marcus Gardley. Commissioned: Yale Repertory Theatre. | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in Greenville Mississippi, On The Levee is an epic musical play that uproots the almost forgotten Mississippi flood of 1927, the worst natural disaster in U.S. history pre-Katrina. At the heart of the story are two fathers and sons: LeRoy Percy, a white cotton farmer, and his poet-son Will, and Joe Goodin, an African-American bootblack and his son James, a self-proclaimed ladys man. Stranded on the levee with 180,000 other black folk Joe tries to preserve his way of life while James hopes to inspire change for the black people who are stranded. Likewise, LeRoy attempts to preserve his labor force by keeping the blacks in town but his son Will challenges his authority and what ensues is more destructive than any flood. Based on a true story, On The Levee is a powerful, illuminating history that reaffirms the enduring spirit of hope in a time of great poverty and devastation. | |||||
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Rhapsody 3 or My Brother's Keeper | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | Slant Theater Project | |||||
| 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 | #78256 | |||
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Notes: | Originally performed under the overall title "CouchWorks" with six other plays. | |||||
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road weeps, the well runs dry, the | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 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 | #139367 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Commissioned: South Coast Repertory Theatre. | |||||
Synopsis: | Surviving centuries of slavery, revolts and The Trail of Tears, a community of self-proclaimed Freemen (Black Seminoles and people of mixed origins) incorporate the first all-black U.S. town in Wewoka, Oklahoma. But the very foundations of the town are rocked when the new religion and the old way come head to head, their former enslavers arrive to imprison them and the leader of the Freemen makes use of his brilliant, burning immortality. Written in gorgeously cadenced language, utilizing elements of black folklore and daring humor, the road weeps, the well runs dry merges the myth, folklore and history of the Black Seminole people. | |||||
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Victorian | ||
| 1st Produced: | Keen Teens at Theatre Row, New York, NY | 28 May 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #118936 | |||
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Genre: | short drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 7 | ||
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Synopsis: | A newlywed interracial couple moves into an old Victorian home in the San Francisco Bay Area, but an act of violence leaves young Adeline a widow. Troubled with grief and struggling to raise her daughter alone, Adeline reaches out to the community and learns of the long, tumultuous history of the house and the people who have lived there. As their folk-like tales play out before her, they paint a picture of the past, present, and future of a community haunted by the ghosts of heartache and racial tensions and their hope to change things for the future. (This play was specially commissioned by Playscripts for high school actors.) | |||||
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