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Michael John Garces

MICHAEL JOHN GARCES

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Gersh Agency, NY  

Michael John Garces is the artistic Director of Cornerstone Theater Company in Los Angeles. Plays he has written include Los Illegals (Cornerstone), points of departure(INTaR), act of Mercy (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), audiovideo (the Directors Project), and Tostitos (the Shalimar). Recent directing credits include plays at the Humana Festival and the Guthrie. Mr. Garces is the recipient of the Princess Grace Statue and the Alan Schneider Directing award, and is proud to be a resident playwright of New Dramatists.

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         +30NYC         Acts Of Mercy         Adelaide         audiovideo         Binge: Short Plays With All the Fixins!         Frag         Gentrifusion         Grief         Hym In Three Parts, A         Last Call         Now and Then         Open Road Anthology, The         Overexposed         Parable, The         Points Of Departure         Sandlot Ball         Souvenirs         Tell Her That         Tostitos         Verite         Web, The

+30NYC

Synopsis:
a sustainable project, this evening of short plays examines how our actions today will directly affect our lives in 30 years. as per the mission of Red Fern theatre Company, that each production is paired with a philanthropy whose work relates to the social themes of the play, +30NYC is paired with Material For the Arts.
- nytheatre.com

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written by Bekah Brunstetter, Victor Ismael Cazares, Christine evans, Michael John Garces, Ashlin Halfnight, Mac Rodgers, Tommy Smith

1st Produced:
Center Stage, NY     06 Mar 2010

Organisations:
Red Fern Theatre Company

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Acts Of Mercy

Synopsis:
During the course of one sweltering night, two sons must reconcile themselves to their dying father, hoping to gain redemption through small but life-giving acts of mercy.

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1st Produced:
Rattlestick Theatre, NY     2006

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Play/Drama

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Adelaide

Synopsis:
explores the relationship between the United States and Australia

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part of the Australia Project

1st Produced:
Kraine Theatre, NY, Usa     2006

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audiovideo

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Short play

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Binge: Short Plays With All the Fixins!

Synopsis:
In these short plays food is a character, a metaphor, a Dramatic force of its own. Binding the plays together is a series of provocative videos that address the grotesque reality of today's food politics
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Michael John Garces, Kara Lee Corthron, Sibyl Kempson, Kirk Lynn, Bekah Brunstetter, Mando Alvarado

1st Produced:
Interart Theatre, NY     2008

Organisations:
the Shalimar

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short plays

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Frag

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1st Produced:
Here Arts Center, New York     2004

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Gentrifusion

Synopsis:
In Gentrifusion, playwrights Carla Ching, Joshua Conkel, Michael John Garces, Jon Kern, Janine Nabers and Crystal Skillman explore the different truths surrounding the gentrification of New York's neighborhoods. the playwrights were charged with breaking down the cliched idea of "gentrification." their pieces dig deeper to address the ways that change both improves and diminishes a community. all residents are given voice in this series, ultimately discovering that both long time residents and the new crop of gentrifiers benefit and suffer in different measures and different ways.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Carla Ching, Joshua Conkel, Michael John Garces, Jon Kern, Janine Nabers, Crystal Skillman

1st Produced:
Laba Theatre At The 14th Street Y     29 Jan 2011

Organisations:
Red Fern Theatre Company

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Grief

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Short play

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Hym In Three Parts, A

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Short play

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Last Call

Synopsis:
about three friends who meet in a bar in a conversation that plunges from hilariously awkward to life-ruining

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1st Produced:
West End Theatre, NY     2006

Organisations:
Prospect Theatre Company

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Now and Then

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Contained in "Postive/Negative" published by Aunt Lute Books 2002   -

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Open Road Anthology, The

Synopsis:
the call of the open road has reverberated since the founding of our nation: the wind in our hair and promise of a new life around the corner; or in the legacy of land taken, communities divided and the increasingly guarded borders behind which Americans drive. Comic and thought-provoking, these writers examine how America's yearning for unfettered freedom resonates today and where it rings hollow.

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written by Constance Congdon, Kia Corthron, Michael John Garces, Rolin Jones, A. Rey Pamatmat And Kathryn Walat, with music by GrooveLily

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Organisations:
2006-2007 Actors Theatre apprentice Company

1st Published:
Humana Festival 2007: the Complete Plays, 2008   -

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Overexposed

Synopsis:
This evening of new short plays is inspired by Susan Sontag's book On Photography. the producers describe it as illuminating "the complexities and questions that photography raises. From grieving parents left with only a photo of their deceased son to a cheeky calendar photo shoot, the collection of short plays looks at the medium from a variety of angles and offers searing, heartfelt and even funny riffs on Sontag's commentary. the evening serves as a modern call and response between cultural criticism and performing Arts."
nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of A Thousand Words: Seven Short Plays On Photography

1st Produced:
Interart Annex, NY     2006

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Parable, The

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Points Of Departure

Synopsis:
This eloquent political thriller recounts the dangers and difficulties of returning to, and leaving from, a country where a passport might not always be a valid document, the government forbids indigenous groups to speak their native tongues, and alliances and identities constantly shift. as one man tries to return to his village in Central America after years of being away and another woman tries to embark to the U.S., they experience turmoil which contends that if an immigrant's journey to the U.S. is difficult, the journey back home is almost impossible

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1st Produced:
Kirk Theatre, NY     2006

Organisations:
INTaR Theatre

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Sandlot Ball

Synopsis:
Megaball is the new, 21st century virtual hardball video game. and as Eric, Ryan, and Josh form alliances and trash talk between pitches, one thing is certain: they are all playing to win.

Notes:
Celebrating And exploring themes from America's favorite pastime, the Baseball Plays: 7th Inning Stretch is A collection of short comedies And Dramas from the Mile Square theatre's Annual event. From A couple Arguing over the use of steroids (Off Base by Theresa Rebeck) to A priest's fight to preserve the Abandoned lot where the local children play ball (asphalt Green by Rogelio Martinez), to A marriage dissolved over fantasy baseball (Fantasy League by Lee Blessing), this collection captures the love, frustration, And nostalgia surrounding this beloved sport.

1st Produced:
Mile Square Theatre, Hoboken, Nj     18 Jul 2005

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1st Published:
in the Baseball Plays: 7th Inning Stretch, Playscripts Inc   -

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Genre:
10 min comedy

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Souvenirs

Synopsis:
aya and Rebecca search for God in a sunset as they lounge on a beach in Mindoro.
nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of Vital theatre Company presents its Annual festival of new works, Vital Signs.

1st Produced:
Mcginn Cazale Theatre     2006

Organisations:
Vital Theatre Company

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Tell Her That

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1st Produced:
Mcginn Cazale Theatre     2006

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Tostitos

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part of the 30th Annual marathon of new short plays

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Verite

Synopsis:
A trilogy of horror: Faceless by Mary Resing, Verite by Michael John Garces, and What Fresh Hell by Alexandra Petri. On a cold December morning in 1886, Washington insider Clover Adams commits suicide in her Lafayette Square home. In the early hours of a day in November 1956, a UMD fraternity pledge dies in the arms of a statue on her grave. In broad daylight in September 2012, her statue lurks in the garden of a courthouse where disastrous political decisions are made. Coincidence? Urban legend? Or something else entirely... Thriller. Recommended for age 13 and up. Mon. at 3:30 p.m.

Notes:
The Kennedy Center hosts its 11th annual Page-to-Stage festival, featuring more than 40 D.C.-area theater companies. This three-day event offers free readings and open rehearsals of plays and musicals being developed by local, regional, and national playwrights, librettists, and composers

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Web, The

Synopsis:
after his identity is stolen a young man's life falls apart and his family members start disappearing

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