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Michael Feingold

MICHAEL FEINGOLD

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  

MICHaeL FeINGOLD has worked in the American Theatre for over three decades as a translator, playwright, lyricist, director, Dramaturg, and literary manager. He is best known, however, as the chief Theatre critic for New York's weekly newspaper, the Village Voice, where his work has won him the coveted George Jean Nathan award and made him a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. In 2001-2, he was named a Senior Fellow of the National Arts Journalism Program. He has taught Dramatic literature, criticism, and Dramaturgy at Columbia, at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and at the O'Neill Critics Institute. Mr. Feingold was the first Literary Manager of the Yale Repertory Theatre, and subsequently served as Literary Director of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and Literary Manager of the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Mass. He is currently serving as Literary advisor to New York's Theatre for a New audience. He has been an O'Neill Conference Playwright and is a "Usual Suspect" at New York Theatre Workshop where he has had several readings of his own plays as well as of translations in progress. Mr. Feingold is a graduate of Columbia University and the Yale School of Drama.

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         Among Gentlemen         Andorra         Beaver Coat, The         Chairs, The         Happy End         Japanoir         Mary Stuart         Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogany         Scribe's Paradox, Or the Mechanical Rabbit         Seven Deadly Sins Of the Lower Middle Class, The         Sodom And Gomorrah         Souls Of Naples         Threepenny Opera         Times And Appetites Of Toulouse-Latrec         Uncivil Wars: Collaborating With Brecht & Eisler         Venetian Twins, The         What Happened then         You Can't Think Of Everything

Among Gentlemen

Synopsis:
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Notes:
adaptation of Henry Bernstein's Among Gentlemen

1st Produced:
reading at Duke on 42nd Street, NY    2007

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Genre:
adaptation

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Andorra

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Max Frisch

1st Produced:
Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York    02 Apr 2002

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Genre:
Translation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Beaver Coat, The

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Gerhart Hauptmann

1st Produced:
Circle Theatre, New York    11 Jan 1981

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Genre:
Translation

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Chairs, The

Synopsis:
the pair enter the stage, creaky and a little cranky, against a grainy film of the chair dances of their youth. they recycle well-worn domestic rituals of mild antagonism and affection, calling each other "Pussycat" and "Cookie" - the talk less important than its repetition. then their routine takes a different turn as they receive imaginary guests, each given a chair. Gordon grows wistful at the arrival of a past lover; Setterfield flirts gleefully with the husband, shamelessly showing her moth-eaten stockings. Gradually, the visitors grow so numerous that they need rows of chairs, and the stage becomes a theatre auditorium crowded with imagined guests and ghosts. - Sanjoy Roy, Guardian

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

1st Produced:
the Pit, London    2004

Organisations:
Pick Up Performance Co

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Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Happy End

Happy End
Written on the heels of the phenomenally successful Threepenny Opera, Happy end again takes to task the disparity between the 'Haves' versus the 'Have-nots.' In the underworld of Chicago, 1919, a Salvation army Lieutenant, Lillian Holiday, aka Hallelujah Lil, tries to reform a gangster, Bill Cracker, whose mob is led by the mysterious Lady in Grey (also known as 'the Fly'). During the course of the salvation, they fall in love, a robbery gets bungled, murder is attempted, there's a surprise reuniting and a 'happy' ending. along the way we are treated to some of Weill's best songs, including 'the Bilbao Song,' 'the Sailor's Tango,' 'song of the Big Shot,' 'the Mandalay Song,' and 'surabaya Johnny.'" nytheatre.com contributor David Fuller (the Singapore Mikado) directs a cast headed by Joey Piscopo (Billboard, Joe Piscopo's Son) and Lorinda Lisitza.
nytheatre.com

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht. book by Dorothy Lane; music by Kurt Weill; lyrics by Bertolt Brecht; Adapted by Michael Feingold

1st Produced:
Whitbread Flowers Warehouse, Stratford-upon-avon    31385

Organisations:
RSC

1st Published:
Methuen 1983   978-0413510204

Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
RSC ref HaQ198512

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Japanoir

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Notes:
part of the 30th Annual marathon of new short plays

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Genre:
short play

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Mary Stuart

Synopsis:
Mary Stuart Dramatizes the clash of two rival royals, Mary Queen of Scots and her politically ambitious cousin, Elizabeth I of england, during a scandal-ridden, world-changing period of english history. With religion Dramatically pitted against politics and womanhood poised with statesmanship, Schiller's account of Elizabeth's struggle over executing Mary or sparing her life is propelled forward through conspiracies, suicides, jealousies, explosive confrontations and suspense.
nytheatre.com

Notes:
Original Playwright - Friedrich von Schiller

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogany

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

1st Produced:
Edinburgh International Festival    Aug 2008

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Genre:
Translation

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Scribe's Paradox, Or the Mechanical Rabbit

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Contained in: "Best American Short Plays 1995 -1996" published by Applause Books 1997   -

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Seven Deadly Sins Of the Lower Middle Class, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

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1st Published:
Contained in: "the Drama Review" 1961   -

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Sodom And Gomorrah

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Souls Of Naples

Synopsis:
Pasquale and his wife Maria move into a seventeenth century palazzo in Naples. they have been hired to live there for six months to prove that the place is not haunted. In the past two illicit lovers were caught and walled up alive. Maria is having an affair with the rich alfredo. Pasquale comes home early one day and discovers alfredo - but alfredo is able to convince Pasquale that he is a ghost

Notes:
Original Playwright - eduardo de Filippo

1st Produced:
-    2005

Organisations:
Theatre For a New audience

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Threepenny Opera

Synopsis:
Public Debt is ballooning, banks are going bust, a depression is right around the corner, and Mack the Knife is leaving a trail of broken hearts and cut throats in his wake. In this masterful musical satire, love, sex, murder, and theft all become tactics for survival in a society spinning out of control
- press release

Notes:
book And lyrics by Bertolt Brecht; music by Kurt Weill; translated by Michael Feingold

1st Produced:
Riverside Theatre (in Riverside Church), 91 Claremont avenue, NY    2009

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Music:
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Genre:
musical Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

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Times And Appetites Of Toulouse-Latrec

Synopsis:
as the play begins, the young Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is already in rebellion against the constraints of his noble breeding and background, and determined to become an artist. Heading for Paris, he takes up residence in a bordello (much to the dismay of his family and friends) and attends art school where his radical ideas quickly bring him into conflict with his conservative teachers. But Henri's natural milieu is more the bistros and fleshpots of Montmartre than the staid ateliers of the academy, and as his life becomes more drunken and dissolute his art flourishes producing the great posters and paintings which have come to symbolize the Paris of the "belle epoque." Punctuating the action of the play are authentic songs of the period, written by aristide Bruant and others (with updated english lyrics) and sung (with piano and accordion accompaniment) by such famed entertainers of the time as Jane avril, Yvette Guilbert, and La Goulue. But amid the swirl of gaiety and good times it is soon evident that the health of the naturally frail Toulouse-Lautrec is beginning to weaken. In and out of sanitoriums, and resisting the pleas of his family to come home and of his friends to stop drinking, Henri plunges doggedly ahead on his destructive course, pursuing a destiny which leads both to an early death and to immortality and a secure place both in the history of art and in the hearts of all who dream of the glittering Paris of the can-can and the Moulin Rouge.

Notes:
by Jeff Wanshel, lyrics by Michael Feingold

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
Play with songs Musical

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Uncivil Wars: Collaborating With Brecht & Eisler

Synopsis:
Uncivil Wars is Bertolt Brecht's play, the Roundheads and the Pointheads (as translated by Michael Feingold), with material from Brecht's treatises on playwriting as well as from Hanns eisler's thoughts on composing for the theater. the work explores ideas about inspiration, collaboration and the implications of re-addressing historical works in the changed context of our present moment
- press release

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

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Organisations:
Pick Up Performance Co(S.)

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Music:
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Genre:
theatre dance work Translation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Venetian Twins, The

Synopsis:
slapstick foolery as twins, separated at birth, turn up again in Verona confused in love

Notes:
Original Playwright - Carlo Goldoni

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  -

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What Happened then

Synopsis:
Inspired by an 18th Century narrative, Michael Feingold's What Happened then utilizes Dramatic storytelling to reveal how the fates of two men were forever intertwined by a series of unlikely coincidences
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of Reflections: An evening of Short Plays

1st Produced:
Lion Theatre, NY    2009

Organisations:
Resonance ensemble

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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You Can't Think Of Everything

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Alfred de Musset. Composer:Gary Fagin

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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