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GEORGE TYNAN CROWLEY
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George Tynan Crowley, performer/playwright/director, has an MFa from Yale School of Drama, where he received the John Badham award for Directing. as Co-artistic Director of UNYYC, he oversaw five original New York productions under Equity's experimental cabaret agreement. as an actor, he won Sarasota Theatre arts Best actor award playing Gabe in Dinner with Friends at Florida Studio Theatre; where he also played Oscar Wilde in Gross Indecency, Robert in Proof and Raphelson in Ten Unknowns. He has also performed at DC's Studio Theatre, the asolo, Maine's Public Theatre, the New Jersey, Colorado and American Shakespeare Festivals, etc., and at the Wilma Theater he played Wilde in the East Coast premier of Tom Stoppard's Invention of Love. His Prospero for the Harlem Summer Shakespeare Festival in New York marked his 18th Shakespeare production. as a writer, besides his three full-length plays here listed, he has also written three spiritually-oriented plays for children for the SYDa Foundation, including a life of the 15th century Indian poet Tukaram Maharaj. He also co-wrote an original musical about sexual obsession and personal masks called "The Show" which was produced at New York's LGBT Center. He was assistant to Zoe Caldwell during her tenure as artistic Director for two seasons at Stratford CT's American Shakespeare Theatre. He has taught playwriting, acting, and history of Drama in the CUNY system in New York City, and in New York he has also worked as a teaching artist for Enact, Inc. and created original programs teaching classes through drama for the American Place Theatre.
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Cleopatra Backstage Irish Most Happy Sex With The GodsCleopatra Backstage
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Elyse, a rather grand African-American actress who has come to play Cleopatra at a regional theatre, finds herself falling for the brilliant character man in the company, Fred, who makes no secret of the fact that he was recently widowed after 11 years of traditional marriage but before that was a confirmed homosexual. That neither of them fits neatly into cultural stereotypes or communities, that they are both getting old, and that they are intensely attracted to each other, these things bring Elyse to move in with Fred once the show closes. But the fly in the ointment is their different ambitions, and, a week after their two year anniversary of cohabitation, in a rage, Fred propositions a young male actor whom they both once knew. Sordid, farcical, and tragic, the play's final few scenes detail the fall-out from this betrayal and their reconciliation on a Hollywood sound stage, which defies common wisdom.
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There Are A few simple scene-changes which can be contained within A simple unit: A green-room, A bedroom, An exit stairwell, A coffee-shop, And A nearly empty Hollywood soundstage.
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Modern romantic comedy
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a contemporary man, Nick, in a last-ditch effort to salvage his own emotional life, reconstructs the hard-drinking story of his charismatic grandfather, Bo Walsh, in 1930's New York. Nick's aunt, Jen, champions Bo's life-story to Nick until she is forced to confront the memory of her adored father's suicide at the end of act One. act Two examines the emotional fall-out on Jen's own loves, marriage and death. Finally, secrets told, the family asks that Nick redeem them all by countenancing their stories and moving on. (as Nick reconstructs this ghost story, the play moves in and out of memory and imagination, from 1920's New York City all the way up to Nick's memorabilia-strewn basement apartment in Jersey City, where the electricity has been shut off.)
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Little Theatre on West 64th Street, New York, NY 2003
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New York's West Side YMCa
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Modern epic drama
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This 3-character story chronicles the most melodramatic episode in English history. It follows anne Boleyn's rise from a lady-in-waiting newly arrived at the English court in 1522 to a place of power as Henry VIII's second Queen, and, finally, to her beheading on trumped-up charges of adultery in 1536. The plays' perspective emphasizes her proto-feminism, her zeal to free England from Popery and Spain, her unique love relationship with Tudor poet Thomas Wyatt, and, by inference, the solidification of a tyrant state under Henry VIII. The set is basically a unit set, for we are always backstage to all the ongoing ceremonies and shenanigans of the high court. Henry VIII never makes an appearance, although each of the characters has moments where he or she speaks directly to him, the source of power. Called "a chamber piece where these three characters meet at the crossroads of history," the play is about spirituality, power, and the unique choice each of these people make in the pursuit of happiness. Full-on English accents are not called for; just strong, bold speech.
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a unit set, All-purpose: there may be mirrors, A winding stair, votive candles, drapes, Anachronistic dressing dummies. The Actors need not imitate the effete sounds of Covent Garden; these Britons of 1500 speak plain And bold, even if the Court objects. Anne Boleyn, As forthright As in many versions, is different here in the way she suppresses her love for Wyatt to follow her messianic zeal to reform the Church, A valid if unusual historical hypothesis.
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a reconverted Bennigan's in the heart of Broadway's theatre district 2005
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Unofficial New York Yale Cabaret
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Historical chamber drama
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he ancient gods, Greek Hermes and Roman Venus, intervene in a modern, fraught, love relationship between two men, which deals with polyamory, sex work, and commitment. The setting is impressionistic, vaporous, modern and mythic
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readings at the Leslie Lohman Museum and the LGBT Center in New York -
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Play/Drama
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