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MICHAEL MAIELLO |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Michael Maiello is a playwright, a fiction scribe, and a journalist on staff at Forbesmagazine. He is also a resident playwright with Manhattan's critically acclaimed Godlight Theatre Company, where he is the co-creator, with composer Andrew Recinos, of the musical Principia, which has its New York debut 2003. Mr. Maiello's work has received other New York productions at the Joseph Papp Memorial Public Theatre, La Mama ETC, and Dixon Place.
Plays by Michael Maiello
Night of Faith | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Studio Inc. (New York, NY, United States) | 1999 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22052 | |||
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Genre: | 25-35 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 2 males, 1 female (3 actors possible: 1-2 males, 1-2 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Sylvia is a difficult dinner date, but Henry is determined to get beyond her apathy. As the increasingly fantastical evening unfolds, the waiter comes to embody Sylvia's ideal man -- a scimitar-wielding Arabian prince. If Henry wants to win Sylvia, he must set aside rationality and best this prince in battle. | |||||
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Principia | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | The Godlight Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 09670234-8-3 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56867 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Musical, 90 min Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Michael Maiello and Andrew Recinos | |||||
| Principia is a mass for the masses. A lunatic ensemble of gods, pirates, preachers and Magic 8 Balls confound a man named Kerry on his journey from Middle-American obscurity to the height of power. Inspired by the notorious faux-religious text The Principia Discordia. | |||||
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Waiting for Death | ||
| 1st Produced: | West Coast Ensemble (Los Angeles, CA, United States) | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22053 | |||
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: | 25-30 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 3 males, 3 females, 1 either (7 actors possible: 3-4 males, 2-3 females) | |||||
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Synopsis: | A wealthy, shallow couple throws a wealthy, shallow party in honor of a famous author, but Death shows up instead. Death has come to claim someone, but he's keeping the identity of this doomed soul a sadistic little secret. The couple and their friends -- including a television writer, a plastic surgeon, and a gossip columnist -- are suddenly compelled to put their petty concerns aside and face the mortality that may be imminent. | |||||
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