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Michael Yates Crowley

MICHAEL YATES CROWLEY

  
Nationality:    USA/Canadian
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Literary Agent:    Abrams Artists Agency  represented by Max Grossman

Michael Yates Crowley is a 2008 Fellow in Playwriting from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and artist in Residence at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. He is the author of the Ted Haggard Monologues, which won the artistic excEllence prize at Collective: Unconscious's Undergroundzero Festival in 2007 and was translated and published in German. the Monologues have been performed in English at Theater Bielefeld and in German at SchlossTheater Moers. a film version of the Monologues, directed by Alexis Boling for Harmonium Films & Music, is currently in post-production. Other plays by Michael Yates Crowley include evanston: a Rare Comedy, presented at Performance Space 122 and HeRe Arts Center; RaG FUR BLOOD BONe, an adaptation of the Gilgamesh epic presented at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center; I can eat the sun, read at Chicago Shakespeare Theater and produced at Strawdog Theater in Chicago; and Real Dogs, read at Rattlestick Playwright's Theater in New York. He twice received the Seymour Brick Memorial Prize in Playwriting from Columbia University, where he studied English and astrophysics. He is the founder and curator of Hearth Gods, a reading series in the east Village.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Michael Yates Crowley's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Rag Fur Blood Bone         Righteous Money         Song of a Convalescent Ayn Rand Giving Thanks to the Godhead (in the Lydian Mode)         Ted Haggard Monologues, The

Rag Fur Blood Bone

Synopsis:
the epic of Gilgamesh is preserved on 12 clay tablets, assembled in ancient Mesopotamia by the priest Sin-liqe-unninni. animals are mentioned once or twice in the early tablets, and then ignored. But three thousand years later, the tablets are falling apart, and animals are taking over the gaps. Set in present-day New York City and ancient Iraq, featuring the goddess Ishtar and police commissioner Bernard Kerik, this is a story of modern cities, ancient battles, homoerotic silences, and men who want to be gods. In Rag Fur Blood Bone, over 20 actors, musicians, and Babylonian scholars assemble at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center to rip this tale open and eat its fucking heart
- press release

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Wolf 359

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http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/rag-fur-blood-bone-the-epic-of-gilgamesh   -

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Play/Drama 150 min

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Righteous Money

Synopsis:
This is part of the east to Edinburgh Festival. This is the official blurb: Dishing out advice on stock trading, deal-making, and seducing your assistant, this filthy rich TV provocateur takes on the tanking economy. What begins as a sendup of financial gurus and morally dubious I-bankers becomes a searing exploration of finance and the state of America today.
- nytheatre.com

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adapted by Wolf 359

1st Produced:
59e59 theaters
59 East 59th Street, New York, NY 10022    22 Jul 2010

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Song of a Convalescent Ayn Rand Giving Thanks to the Godhead (in the Lydian Mode)

Synopsis:
In Song of a Convalescent Ayn Rand Giving Thanks to the Godhead (in the Lydian Mode), longtime collaborators Michael Yates Crowley and Michael Rau once again tap into the political zeitgeist with an audacious collage of ideas, scenes, sketches, songs, poetry, and PowerPoint lectures that challenges the myth of the suffering artist. Playing all of the characters themselves, playwright Crowley and director Rau take audiences on a daring journey through space and time, from an ill Beethoven writing his last string quartet to Rand in the afterlife checking in on her clingy lover, Alan Greenspan, to a drag queen delivering a side-splitting rant in a Peoria strip club.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Irt, 154 Christopher St. #3B (3rd Floor), Ny    15 Sep 2012

Organisations:
Wolf 359

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piece 75 min

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Ted Haggard Monologues, The

Synopsis:
Based loosely on the scandal surrounding megachurch pastor Ted Haggard and former male escort Mike Jones, the Ted Haggard Monologues is the newest play by Michael Yates Crowley. With the help of the Gospel of Sexual Liberation Singers, Crowley presents a series of sermons and monologues by characters-both real and fictional-involved in the saga. as the scandal deepens and the allegations grow more wild, the family is forced to confront their own buried desires. In language inspired as much by Madonna's lyrics and Rilke's poetry as the Bible, they confess themselves and pray for forgiveness, vengeance, or simply a boyfriend.
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1st Produced:
Collective:Unconscious
NY, USA    2008

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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