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MIKE GORMAN

  
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Mike Gorman is a playwright in residence at La MaMa Theater in New York City. He makes his home in New York and Maine. A list of Mike's most recent productions at La MaMa include How and Why I Robbed My First Cheese-Store(2011), The Poet and the Lumberjack (2009), The Honor and Glory of Whaling(2008), Death by Joinery (2006), Counting Coup (2002), Single Action Shotgun(2001), UltraLight (2000) and A Funny Old Bird (1998). Mike is currently working on If Colorado had an Ocean &, the final play in his trilogy of plays, The Honor and Glory of Whaling, that deals with the issue of Addiction and Recovery in the commercial fishing industry of New England. If Colorado had an Ocean & is scheduled for production in La MaMa's First Floor Theater in December 2014, with all three plays from the trilogy to be performed in repertory. Mike is the founder and Director of The Forty Hour Club-a resident company of La MaMa. The Forty Hour Club("A Common Vision/A Common Vocation") was originally formed for the purpose of producing a tour of "UltraLight", the first play from The Honor and Glory of Whaling. UltraLight premiered at La MaMa's First Floor Theater in 2000 before moving to The Gloucester Stage Company in Massachusetts in 2002. In September 2003UltraLight toured Maine from The Portland Stage Company, to The Penobscot Theater in Bangor and The Grand Theater in Ellsworth. The production was co-sponsored by the Advocacy Community (Maine Alliance for Addiction Recovery) as well as the professional Theater and Arts Community. Mike is currently working on a film that documents the unique production history of The Honor and Glory of Whaling with filmmaker Ben Kahn of Nomad Pictures in Portland, Maine. Mike was also the Co-Creator of The Fabulous Giggin' Bros.-a performance troupe originated at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He later spent several years on the Island of Vinalhaven, Maine developing theGiggin' Bros. signature style of roots-based absurd theater before arriving in New York and debuting at La MaMa with their production of three short pieces: Biffing Mussels, Conversation Pieces and A Random Act of Violence. ("From Maine, land of Crustacean splendor and dweedy plaid-clad Caucasians, come The Fabulous Giggin' Bros."-James Hannaham, Village Voice.) Other Giggin' Bros. plays and performance spectacles include Island Still Life, Goin' West, Chores (Or The Big Man in the Orange Rubber Rain Suit), Interview, The Paradox of Professionalismand De-Freeze Walt Disney. Mike began his playwriting career at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts where he graduated with Honors and received a degree in Literature (1988). At Clark , Mike was nominated for The Rhodes Scholarship and received The Russ Granger Award as the University's outstanding Scholar-Athlete. He has recently been nominated for induction into the Clark University Athletic Hall of Fame. In addition to his plays and film projects, Mike is currently writing a book-American Shanachie: A Playwright's Journey-that captures his experience as an independent theater artist.

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below is a list of Mike Gorman's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

        Biffing Mussels         CHORES or The Big Man in the Orange Rubber Rain Suit         Conversation Pieces         Counting Coup         Death By Joinery         Death by Joinery         Fishing for Paradise         Funny Old Bird, A         Honor And Glory Of Whaling, The         How And Why I Robbed My First Cheese Store         If Colorado had an Ocean. . .         Interview         Island Still Life         Random Act of Violence, A         Single Action Shotgun         Three P's (3 Short Plays)         Ultra -Light