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MICHAEL YATES CROWLEY |
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Nationality: USA/Canadian Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Michael Yates Crowley is a 2008 Fellow in Playwriting from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and Artist in Residence at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. He is the author of The Ted Haggard Monologues, which won the Artistic Excellence prize at Collective: Unconscious's Undergroundzero Festival in 2007 and was translated and published in German. The Monologues have been performed in English at Theater Bielefeld and in German at Schlosstheater Moers. A film version of the Monologues, directed by Alexis Boling for Harmonium Films & Music, is currently in post-production. Other plays by Michael Yates Crowley include Evanston: A Rare Comedy, presented at Performance Space 122 and HERE Arts Center; RAG FUR BLOOD BONE, an adaptation of the Gilgamesh epic presented at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center; I can eat the sun, read at Chicago Shakespeare Theater and produced at Strawdog Theater in Chicago; and Real Dogs, read at Rattlestick Playwright's Theater in New York. He twice received the Seymour Brick Memorial Prize in Playwriting from Columbia University, where he studied English and Astrophysics. He is the founder and curator of Hearth Gods, a reading series in the East Village.
Plays by Michael Yates Crowley
Rag Fur Blood Bone | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | Wolf 359 | |||||
| 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 | #96084 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | The epic of Gilgamesh is preserved on 12 clay tablets, assembled in ancient Mesopotamia by the priest Sin-liqe-unninni. Animals are mentioned once or twice in the early tablets, and then ignored. But three thousand years later, the tablets are falling apart, and animals are taking over the gaps. Set in present-day New York City and ancient Iraq, featuring the goddess Ishtar and police commissioner Bernard Kerik, this is a story of modern cities, ancient battles, homoerotic silences, and men who want to be gods. In Rag Fur Blood Bone, over 20 actors, musicians, and Babylonian scholars assemble at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center to rip this tale open and eat its fucking heart | |||||
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Righteous Money | ||
| 1st Produced: | 59E59 Theaters | 22 Jul 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 | #116899 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
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Notes: | adapted by Wolf 359 | |||||
Synopsis: | This is part of the East to Edinburgh Festival. This is the official blurb: Dishing out advice on stock trading, deal-making, and seducing your assistant, this filthy rich TV provocateur takes on the tanking economy. What begins as a sendup of financial gurus and morally dubious I-bankers becomes a searing exploration of finance and the state of America today. | |||||
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Ted Haggard Monologues, The | ||
| 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 | #79604 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Based loosely on the scandal surrounding megachurch pastor Ted Haggard and former male escort Mike Jones, The Ted Haggard Monologues is the newest play by Michael Yates Crowley. With the help of The Gospel of Sexual Liberation Singers, Crowley presents a series of sermons and monologues by characters-both real and fictional-involved in the saga. As the scandal deepens and the allegations grow more wild, the family is forced to confront their own buried desires. In language inspired as much by Madonna's lyrics and Rilke's poetry as the Bible, they confess themselves and pray for forgiveness, vengeance, or simply a boyfriend. | |||||
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