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ROBERT MYERS |
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Robert Myers is the author of more than a dozen stage plays, many of which deal with history and politics. His works includeAtwater: Fixin' to Die, about George H. W. Bush's principal political advisor, Lee Atwater; The Lynching of Leo Frank(winner of the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work, 1998-99), based on the case of a Jewish engineer from Brooklyn accused of child murder in Atlanta in 1913;Dead of Night, about the government-sanctioned murder of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in 1969; Heartland, a black comedy about white supremacists; Perfectly Clear, about Richard Nixon and the Watergate tapes; Against My Heart, about the British Shakespearean actress Fanny Kemble and her visit to a plantation in Georgia in 1839; and Mesopotamia, about Gertrude Bell and the British occupation of Iraq after World War I. He has also written several screenplays and a number of articles on theatre and culture for The New York Times and other publications. He has a Ph.D. in literature from Yale University and has received two Fulbright Fellowships to teach playwriting and theatre at the University of Rio de Janeiro and in Amman, Jordan. He is currently an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at the American University of Beirut, in Lebanon.
Plays by Robert Myers
Atwater: Fixin' to Die | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tamarind Theatre (Los Angeles, CA, United States) | 1992 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67137 | |||
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Genre: | 75-80 min Comedy/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Lee Atwater, George H. W. Bush's main political advisor, was no stranger to controversy. From his early days learning the ropes from Strom Thurmond, to introducing Reagan to the power of MTV, to his successful direction of Bush's 1988 presidential campaign (including the notorious Willie Horton ads), Atwater was simultaneously reviled and revered -- depending on whether he was on your side or not. A one-man tour de force about an immensely clever, wickedly funny, and ruthless kingmaker's journey -- from blues-loving frat boy to brain cancer victim confronting a lifetime of Machiavellian tactics. | |||||
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Dead of Night | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #67138 | |||
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Execution of Fred Hampton, The | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #67139 | |||
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Lynching of Leo Frank, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pegasus Players Theatre (Chicago, IL, United States) | 1998 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39488 | |||
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Genre: | 90-100 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 10 males, 2 females (12-26 actors possible: 10-21 males, 2-5 females) | |||||
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Synopsis: | When Mary Phagan, a white child-laborer at a pencil factory in Atlanta, is found murdered there in 1913, Leo Frank becomes the primary suspect. Frank, a Brooklyn-born Jewish engineer who managed the factory, is accused of the crime by the factory's African-American janitor, who also accuses Frank of sexual involvement with female workers. Though Frank was almost certainly innocent, he is convicted and sentenced to death, amid a brewing storm of hatred and mistrust from the community. When the sympathetic Georgia governor grants a reprieve, a gang breaks into the prison, kidnaps and then lynches Frank. Many years after this tragic story has unfolded, Frank's former office boy steps forward to bear witness to what he saw. . . | |||||
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