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Michelle Carter

MICHELLE CARTER  (1961 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Bret Adams Ltd  represented by Bruce Ostler

Michelle Carter is a lapsed fiction writer currently writing plays. She was one of 16 playwrights chosen from among 1200 applicants for arielle Tepper's 2005 Summer Play Festival in New York and one of two selected from that group for a residency at the Donmar Warehouse in London. Her first play, Hillary and Soon-Yi Shop for Ties, received the PeN USA award for Drama in 2000; her second play, Ted Kaczynski Killed People With Bombs, received the PeN USA award for Drama in 2003. Both plays premiered at San Francisco's Magic Theatre. another play, Let the Pony Sing, was commissioned by the Mark Taper Forum and presented in the Taper's New Work Festival in March 2005 and nominated by the Taper for the Kesselring Prize. Snickerdoodles in Hell was produced at the abingdon Theatre in New York in 2005. In addition to the PeN award, Hillary and Soon-Yi Shop for Ties also won a Garland award for playwriting, an American Theatre Critics association award nomination, and a Bay area Critics Circle nomination for the score, which she co-composed with jazz artist RAndy Craig. "Prometheus" appears in Plays for actresses II (eric Lane and Nina Shengold, editors, Vintage 2002). She has published novels with William Morrow and Penguin books as well as more than 30 short stories in magazines and anthologies. She is a professor in the Creative Writing program at San Francisco State University.

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         Dreamspiel, A Ukulele Opera         Hello In Many Countries         Hillary And Soon-Yi Shop For Ties         How To Pray         Kings Play Chess On Fine Green Satin         Let the Pony Sing         Project Playwright the Show         Tarantulas On the Lifebuoy         Ted Kaczynski Killed People With Bombs

Dreamspiel, A Ukulele Opera

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1st Produced:
Grimeborn Opera Festival    2008

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arcola Theatre, London

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Ukulele opera

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Hello In Many Countries

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Hillary And Soon-Yi Shop For Ties

Hillary And Soon-Yi Shop For Ties
Hillary Clinton and Soon-Yi Previn allen go out shopping for ties and then they play bingo and take part in a fashion parade.

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Magic Theatre, San Francisco    Nov 1999

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Dramatic Publishing   158-3420525

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play with songs Play with Music

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How To Pray

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Kings Play Chess On Fine Green Satin

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What sort of child would you have if you could have designer babies?

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Commonwealth Club, San Francisco    2007

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Magic Theatre

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Let the Pony Sing

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Project Playwright the Show

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written by Jacob Burstein-Stern, Michelle Carter, Rich Frost, Craig McNulty, And Adrian Quihuis

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Abingdon Theater Stage II, 312 W. 36th Street , Sixth Floor, New York, NY 10018-7570    2005

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Madair Productions

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Tarantulas On the Lifebuoy

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Ted Kaczynski Killed People With Bombs

Ted Kaczynski Killed People With Bombs
In Ted Kaczynski Killed People With Bombs, the intention of the first act is to explore our impulse to "explain" why horrific acts are committed. a character called Wild Nature - sprung from a passage in the Unabomber manifesto - leads a group of actors in the performance of six "explanations" for Ted Kaczynski's behavior: his childhood; the Murray experiment at Harvard; his two years at Berkeley; mental illness; unrequited love; and Wild Nature - some brand of ungovernable psychosexual rage. Wild Nature and the acting troupe take their bows and exit. act II opens exactly as act I opened: Wild Nature begins to perform the identical show until s/he realizes the same audience has returned. Since they can't trot out the "explanations" again, they abandon this and decide to just tell the story, letting the questions live. In awarding the 2003 PeN USA Literary award for Drama, the judges wrote: "Carter has constructed a kaleidoscopic postmodern exploration of the real-life events and influences that unleashed the Unabomber. Her comprehensive research and keen eye for insightful details result in vivid, gripping portraits of the alienated terrorist and those who knew him. By skillfully blending thoughtful analysis with humor, sympathy and occasional quirky song, Carter lulls us into thinking that the distrubed mind of a homegrown terrorist is explainable, perhaps even forgivable - before lowering the emotional boom as the focus shifts from the eccentricities of the bomber to the horror inflicted on his victims. . .Carter's cautionary Drama uncovers deeper truths that endure long past the limited shelf life of a media event."

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Magic Theatre, San Francisco    Oct 2002

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Dramatic Publishing Company   158-3422935

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90 min Drama

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