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MICHAEL LEWIS MACLENNAN (1968 - ) |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Kensington Literary Representation |
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Michael Lewis MacLennan now divides his time between Toronto, Vancouver and Los Angeles, working as a playwright, screenwriter and TV producer. He is a two-time finallist for Canada's prestigious Governor General's Literary Award, and the only playwright to win the Herman Voaden National Playwriting Award twice. His first play, Beat The Sunset garnered Vancouver's Jessie Richardson Award for outstanding emerging playwright and the Theatrum National Playwriting Competition. Grace won the Theatre BC National Playwriting Competition and has been produced across Cananda and internationally. His next two plays The Shooting Stage and Last Romantics both won the Voaden Prize and were GG nominees. Other plays include Leaning Over Railings and The Fabulous Life, commissioned by The Vancouver Playhouse. As a screenwriter, Michael has been nominated four times for the Writers' Guild of Canada Award. He began his screenwriting career as writer and story editor for CBC'S Wind At My Back, then working as writer and executive story editor for the PBS series Anne of Green Gables and supervising producer for the BBC/TV series Super Rupert. He is now co-executive producer on Showtime/Showcase's Queer As Folk, having written for the show for four years. With Keatley Productions he is executive producer of CHUM TV's new flagship dramatic series Godiva's, which is now entering its second year. In addition to numerous feature and TV movie projects, he is a much sought-after feature film story editor.
Plays by Michael Lewis MacLennan
Beat the Sunset | ||
| 1st Produced: | Victoria, B C | 1993 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press; 1st edition (September 1, 2000) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0887545498 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21935 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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| Ten years after a shattering crisis, Adam and Sacha meet again. They carry the scars of events which severed and nearly destroyed them both. Sacha, a history professor, is spontaneously moved to visit his hold friend recuperating from a bout of AIDS-related pneumonia. Together they forge a relationship which transforms them both. At the same time, Adam's mother Iris struggles to accept her son, while desperately trying to reconcile a fractured family. Weaving themes of memory, AIDS, a mother's love, and the history of epidemics, Beat The Sunset is an explosive, life-affirming play about the power of intimacy. | |||||
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Come On! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Liquid Theatre Vancouver | 1997 | ||||
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 | #46464 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Two men make various attempts to pick each other up in a night club. Eventually they manage it. | |||||
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Fabulous Life | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company | - - - | ||||
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 | #46465 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Warren has moved away from his family to the city. Then one day his sister turns up with her troubled son and their dying mother who needs specialised medical treatment. | |||||
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Good Egg, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Alberta | 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Pres | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0887548512 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #113164 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Commissioned, CanStage, Great Canadian Theatre Company | |||||
| A riveting, rollicking comedy about three people trying to conceive a baby. They're the ultimate downtown couple - attractive, smart and successful. They have everything they could ever want Except a child. When bad news points them to alternative methods of conception, they encounter a handsome young art model He seems like the perfect solution to their problems. But as this unlikely trio gets more intimate, secret agendas surface and threaten to destroy not only their hasty deal, but everything they've so carefully built for themselves. | |||||
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Grace | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1995 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Scirocco Drama; 1 edition (January 16, 1998) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1896239347 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21936 | |||
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Genre: | Comedic Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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| The lives of six people during one day. As their paths intersect these six strangers transform and affect each other's lives. | |||||
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Last Romantics , The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Commissioned, The Shaw Festival, 2000 & 2001 | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press; 1 edition (September 1, 2003) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0887546761 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21937 | |||
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Genre: | Comedic Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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| A journey from the drawing rooms of fin-de-siecle London, with Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley to Mackenzie King's Canada on the eve of the Great Depression | |||||
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Laurels, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2001 | ||||
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 | #113165 | |||
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Genre: | Dramatic opera One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1 Soprano / 1 Baritone | |||||
Notes: | Libretto by Michael Lewis MacLennan, Music by Jeffrey Ryan | |||||
Synopsis: | Laurel runs through a large city park at night, chased by a male Stranger. In the course of the story, however, clues are slipped which suggest that the victim isn't so innocent. Through music, word and action, the opera reveals that "The Stranger" is in fact part of Laurel's psyche, and his pursuit of her is with a more complex purpose. When she stabs him and explains her motives, talking of "killing a man tonight," we think she is referring to the Stranger we have just seen her stab. But when the stranger stirs, not killed, we realise that he is not the victim. He is haunting her, a voice she cannot escape which offers her the only way to properly silence him. The piece ends in this place of heightened dilemma. A contemporary retelling of the Daphne and Apollo myth, The Laurels tells an exciting, surprising and moving story that works on many levels. | |||||
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Leaning over Railings | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1994 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21938 | |||
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Genre: | Comedic Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Jason is on a sea cruise in the hopes of forgetting the "demons" that have made him take the voyage. However, even though there are 1,000 other passengers he feels alone and has to confront his demons | |||||
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Life After God | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Commissioned, Touchstone Theatre, 2005 | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press (April 1, 2008) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0887547461 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #60949 | |||
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Genre: | 95 min One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Adapted from a short story by Douglas Coupland | |||||
| Fifteen years after they were at college together - six friends find their lives unravelling. | |||||
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Shooting Stage , The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Firehall Theater Vancouver Canada | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press (September 1, 2002) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0887546402 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21939 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| Two former child stars who played brothers on a now long defunct television series are reunited in later life. One has become a lawyer, the other a photographer. When they were younger on the TV series Len was just starting with his photography and took a number of nude studies of Malcolm - now the lawyer. The photographs have now been published and deemed obscene and Len is to be prosecuted. | |||||
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What Remains Of Georgia Tuttle | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2001 | ||||
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 | #46466 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Georgia Tuttle has set and runs a very successful restaurant - Chez Seul. On her way home from work one night she has the urge to return to the restaurant where she talks to an unseen man - Owen - who she believes is watching her from outside the restaurant and she unburdens herself of her worries. | |||||
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