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MICHELLE CARTER (1961 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Bret Adams Ltd (agent: Bruce Ostler) |
Michelle Carter is a lapsed fiction writer currently writing plays. She was one of 16 playwrights chosen from among 1200 applicants for Arielle Tepper's 2005 Summer Play Festival in New York and one of two selected from that group for a residency at the Donmar Warehouse in London. Her first play, Hillary and Soon-Yi Shop for Ties, received the PEN USA Award for Drama in 2000; her second play, Ted Kaczynski Killed People With Bombs, received the PEN USA Award for Drama in 2003. Both plays premiered at San Francisco's Magic Theatre. Another play, Let the Pony Sing, was commissioned by the Mark Taper Forum and presented in the Taper's New Work Festival in March 2005 and nominated by the Taper for the Kesselring Prize. Snickerdoodles in Hell was produced at the Abingdon Theatre in New York in 2005. In addition to the PEN Award, Hillary and Soon-Yi Shop for Ties also won a Garland Award for playwriting, an American Theatre Critics Association Award nomination, and a Bay Area Critics Circle nomination for the score, which she co-composed with jazz artist Randy Craig. "Prometheus" appears in Plays for Actresses II (Eric Lane and Nina Shengold, editors, Vintage 2002). She has published novels with William Morrow and Penguin books as well as more than 30 short stories in magazines and anthologies. She is a professor in the Creative Writing program at San Francisco State University.
Plays by Michelle Carter
Dreamspiel, a Ukulele Opera | ||
| 1st Produced: | Grimeborn Opera Festival | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Arcola Theatre, London | |||||
| 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 | #87286 | |||
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Genre: | Ukulele opera | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | musicians | |||||
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Hello in Many Countries | ||
| 1st Produced: | Magic Theatre commission | - - - | ||||
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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 | #78371 | |||
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Hillary and Soon-Yi Shop for Ties | ||
| 1st Produced: | Magic Theatre, San Francisco | Nov 1999 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing | ISBN/ASIN: | 158-3420525 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39040 | |||
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Genre: | play with songs Play with Music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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| Hillary Clinton and Soon-Yi Previn Allen go out shopping for ties and then they play bingo and take part in a fashion parade. | |||||
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How To Pray | ||
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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 | #123089 | |||
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Kings Play Chess on Fine Green Satin | ||
| 1st Produced: | Commonwealth Club, San Francisco | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Magic Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #70365 | |||
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Synopsis: | What sort of child would you have if you could have designer babies? | |||||
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Let the Pony Sing | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mark Taper Forum New Works Festival | - - - | ||||
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 | #78372 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Project Playwright The Show | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | Madair Productions | |||||
| 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 | #84388 | |||
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Notes: | written by Jacob Burstein-Stern, Michelle Carter, Rich Frost, Craig McNulty, and Adrian Quihuis | |||||
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Tarantulas On The Lifebuoy | ||
| 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 | #123090 | |||
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Ted Kaczynski Killed People With Bombs | ||
| 1st Produced: | Magic Theatre, San Francisco | Oct 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company | ISBN/ASIN: | 158-3422935 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39041 | |||
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Genre: | 90 min drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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| In Ted Kaczynski Killed People With Bombs, the intention of the first act is to explore our impulse to "explain" why horrific acts are committed. A character called Wild Naturesprung from a passage in the Unabomber manifestoleads a group of actors in the performance of six "explanations" for Ted Kaczynski's behavior: his childhood; the Murray experiment at Harvard; his two years at Berkeley; mental illness; unrequited love; and Wild Naturesome brand of ungovernable psychosexual rage. Wild Nature and the acting troupe take their bows and exit. Act II opens exactly as Act I opened: Wild Nature begins to perform the identical show until s/he realizes the same audience has returned. Since they can't trot out the "explanations" again, they abandon this and decide to just tell the story, letting the questions live. In awarding the 2003 PEN USA Literary Award for drama, the judges wrote: "Carter has constructed a kaleidoscopic postmodern exploration of the real-life events and influences that unleashed the Unabomber. Her comprehensive research and keen eye for insightful details result in vivid, gripping portraits of the alienated terrorist and those who knew him. By skillfully blending thoughtful analysis with humor, sympathy and occasional quirky song, Carter lulls us into thinking that the distrubed mind of a homegrown terrorist is explainable, perhaps even forgivablebefore lowering the emotional boom as the focus shifts from the eccentricities of the bomber to the horror inflicted on his victims&Carter's cautionary drama uncovers deeper truths that endure long past the limited shelf life of a media event." | |||||
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