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Matthew Maguire

MATTHEW MAGUIRE   (1952 - )

Nationality:   USA    Email:   Click here to contact    Website:   Click here to visit

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Matthew Maguire won an OBIE award for Performance in 1998 and an OBIE Award for Direction in 2007. He is the Director of the Theatre Program at Fordham College at Lincoln Center, and the co-artistic director of Creation Production Company, which he founded with Susan Mosakowski. The company has produced forty-nine original works for the stage. His plays include The Seven Deadly Elements, based on the collage novel by Max Ernst, Eye Figure Fiction, Untitled (The Dark Ages Flat Out), The American Mysteries, The Memory Theatre of Giulio Camillo, Propaganda, Fun City, Visions of Don Juan, The Tower, and its solo version, Babel Stories, a science fiction opera, Chaos, with Michael Gordon, The Window Man, a musical with Bruce Barthol and Greg Pliska, Phaedra, Throwin' Bones, which began as a collaboration with architects Diller + Scofidio titled Skin at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, Luscious Music, which he performed as a solo at the Architecture Museum of Basel, and the OBIE Award winning Abandon, with a score by Andrew Ingkavet. His work also includes the creation with Philip Glass and Molissa Fenley of A Descent into the Maelstrom for Australia's Adelaide Festival. His directing projects include Moliere and Charpentier's Le Malade Imaginaire for the Long Beach Opera, and Manhattan Theatre Club's Downtown Uptown Festival. He is an active alumnus of New Dramatists, and served as chairman of the Theatre panel of the New York State Council on the Arts. His awards include fellowships from the NEA, the McKnight and Hammerstein Foundations, commissions from the NEA, NYSCA, and Meet the Composer, and a 2008 award from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He received his MFA from the Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. His recent projects include a new musical with composer Daniel Levy called Laughing Pictures, a Hollywood Odyssey. His writing has been published by Sun & Moon Press, Backstage Books/Watson Guptill, Manchester University Press, TheatreForum, Performing Arts Journal, and The Drama Review. In 2009 NoPassport Press published Matthew Maguire: Three Plays. For texts and collages go to: www.creationproduction.org. Agent: Hanly Conroy Bierstein Sheridan Fisher & Hayes LLP

Plays by Matthew Maguire

MATTHEW MAGUIRE

Abandon

1st Produced:

La MaMa E.T.C., NY, USA >>>

2006

Company:

Creation Production Company

1st Published:

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Music:

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Genre:

Collage Play

Parts:

Male

2

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Maguire made his last collage play in 1986 before moving onto more linear, dialogue-based work. With Abandon, Maguire has merged the two forms into a new hybrid theatrical event: the narrative collage play. He's offering the play as a gift to Ellen Stewart.

Synopsis:

Abandon is a narrative collage play written and directed by Obie Award winner Matthew Maguire, based on collages created by Maguire. It tells the story of Helena, a young woman in crisis, terrified to love. When Helena's sister, Marguerite, forces her to confront her fear, will she be saved or destroyed?
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MATTHEW MAGUIRE

American Mysteries, The

1st Produced:

La MaMa E.T.C., 74A East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003 >>>

03 Feb 1983

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Notes:

Composer: Glenn Branca, Vito Ricci (with Rashid Ali) and Clodagh Simonds (With piano treatment by Brian Eno)

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MATTHEW MAGUIRE

Babel Stories

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MATTHEW MAGUIRE

Chaos

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Genre:

science fiction opera Opera

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Notes:

written by Michael Gordon, and Matthew Maguire

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MATTHEW MAGUIRE

Cliff in the Dark, A

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MATTHEW MAGUIRE

Descent into the Maelstrom, A

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Notes:

creation with Matthew Maguire, Philip Glass and Molissa Fenley

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MATTHEW MAGUIRE

Desert, The

1st Produced:

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- - -

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1st Published:

NoPassport Press, CA

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0-578-00856-1

Music:

-

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MATTHEW MAGUIRE

Eye Figure Fiction

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-

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MATTHEW MAGUIRE

Faustus/Faustus

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#61424

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-

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MATTHEW MAGUIRE

Flowing in Two

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#61422

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-

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MATTHEW MAGUIRE

Fun City

1st Produced:

Cafe La MaMa, NY, USA >>>

1984

Company:

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1st Published:

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-

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Notes:

Composer: Vito Ricci

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MATTHEW MAGUIRE

Imaginary Invalid

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- - -

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Notes:

-

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MATTHEW MAGUIRE

Instinct

1st Produced:

Lion Theatre
410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036

13 Jan 2012

Company:

Creation Production Company

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

2

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Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Humans never adapt as quickly as the viruses they battle in Instinct, Matthew Maguire's breathlessly gripping drama about four cohabiting epidemiologists in a race against time. Science gets personal as they fight to contain a potentially devastating outbreak, while trying to keep their relationships from unraveling. Instinct ultimately reveals that nothing is more contagious than human desire.

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MATTHEW MAGUIRE

Laughing Picture

1st Produced:

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- - -

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1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

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#61420

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Genre:

Musical

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

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Notes:

composer Daniel Levy

Synopsis:

n/a

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MATTHEW MAGUIRE

Luscious Music

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

NoPassport Press, CA

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0-578-00856-1

Music:

-

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#61419

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Notes:

-

Synopsis:

n/a

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MATTHEW MAGUIRE

Memory Theatre of Giulio Camillo, The

1st Produced:

Cafe La MaMa, NY, USA >>>

1985

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#60979

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Notes:

Composer: Vito Ricci

Synopsis:

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MATTHEW MAGUIRE

Phaedra

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- - -

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-

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MATTHEW MAGUIRE

Propaganda

1st Produced:

Cafe La MaMa, NY, USA >>>

1987

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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-

Music:

-

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#60981

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Notes:

Composer: Fred Frith

Synopsis:

n/a

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MATTHEW MAGUIRE

Seven Deadly Element, The

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#59707

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MATTHEW MAGUIRE

Throwin' Bones

1st Produced:

Cafe La MaMa, NY, USA >>>

1997

Company:

Creation Production Company

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

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-

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MATTHEW MAGUIRE

Tower, The

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

NoPassport Press, CA

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0-578-00856-1

Music:

-

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-

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MATTHEW MAGUIRE

Untitled (The Dark Ages Flat Out)

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n/a

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-

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#59709

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MATTHEW MAGUIRE

Visions of Don Juan

1st Produced:

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- - -

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n/a

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-

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-

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#61411

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-

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MATTHEW MAGUIRE

Wax Wings

1st Produced:

Wild Project
195 East 3rd Street, New York, NY 10009

01 Jun 2011

Company:

Creation Production Company

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#128469

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Genre:

Play/Drama

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Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Wax Wings depicts the unsettling and real life possibility of a virulent new strain of SARS erupting in the United States. Amidst the increasing probability of a pandemic igniting in rural Alabama, the affected area is quickly placed under military quarantine. Four scientists are chosen to spearhead the race to find a vaccine, but their personal lives are on the verge of cracking.
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MATTHEW MAGUIRE

Wild Man

1st Produced:

HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10013 >>>

Jun 2009

Company:

HERE Arts Center and Creation Production Company

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Solo Play/Drama

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Male

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Notes:

-

Synopsis:

In Wild Man, playwright-actor-director Matthew Maguire grapples with mortality as he explores the wildest moments of his own life. Probing everything from ecstasy to runaway horses, from the Book of Esdras to smuggling watermelons, from the Church of Scientology to the art of cheatin' death, this deeply personal and compelling journey exposes the Wild Man in each of us, and begs us to unleash him.
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MATTHEW MAGUIRE

Window Man, The

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- - -

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n/a

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Music:

-

doollee no

#61415

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Genre:

Musical

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Notes:

written by Matthew Maguire, Bruce Barthol and Greg Pliska

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