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MICHAEL PARKER  

Nationality:    USA
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Michael Parker has been active in the theatre almost all his life. At age fourteen, in England where he was born and raised, he won the title role in a regional production of Terrence Rattigan's play, "The Winslow Boy", for which he received a "Best Actor of the Year" award. By age seventeen he was touring with The National Shakespearean Youth Company. He graduated in the top 3% of his class from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, but describes his five years of military service as "uneventful". There being few employment opportunities in civilian life for infantry anti-tank specialists, at age twenty-three he emigrated to Canada where he began a Temporary Office Help business, which proved so successful that he was able to retire ten years later and move to the Caribbean. Over the succeeding years, while living in Bermuda, Grand Cayman, and The Turks and Caicos Islands, he was free again to indulge his passion for the theatre. Never far from The United States, he was able to audition for roles in many Florida Theatres. As an English actor, working in America, Parker became acutely aware of the difficulties experienced by American theatre companies, in producing English works, in particular modern farces. Re-creating the wide range of English dialects is almost impossible, and many of the best farces simply do not "translate" well into "American". The subject matter of the British political and social systems, or scandals of which the American public is unaware, are other examples which seemed to deter many theatres from producing farces. SO. . .Parker challenged himself to write a play which would integrate all the best loved and most familiar devices of the traditional Britsh farce into a distinctly American setting. This had to be a play in which the verbal, visual, and above all, the circumstantial humor would be immediately available to American audiences. The result was an "American Farce", THE SENSUOUS SENATOR, which was inspired by the then current sex scandal involving Senator Gary Hart. Produced in the summer of 1988, by the first theatre to read the script, The Delray Beach Playhouse, it was an immediate hit with both audiences and critics. Encouraged by the success of his first play, and the popularity of the British "naughty but nice" concept, he went on to write a sequel called THE AMOROUS AMBASSADOR. The rest, as they say, is history. Samuel French Inc. New York, the largest play publishing company in te world, published THE AMOROUS AMBASSADOR in 1996, THE SENSUOUS SENATOR in 1998, THE LONE STAR LOVE POTION in 1999, HOTBED HOTEL in 2000, THERE'S A BURGLAR IN MY BED and WHOSE WIVES ARE THEY ANYWAY? in 2002, and WHO'S IN BED WITH THE BUTLER? in 2003. Parker's plays continue to set box office records for non-musicals across America, from Florida to New England, from Texas to Wisconsin, from Southern California to AlaskA. These American Farces are just now finding the "export market" with recent productions in, Canada, England, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Australia, Pakistan and Mexico. A new and exciting play co-authored by Michael and his wife Susan "SIN, SEX and the CIA" Available from Samuel French, Inc., in the fall of 2006. We currently reside at 868 Saranac Lake Dr. 202 Venice, Florida, 34292 941-493-8333

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Amorous Ambassador, The         Hotbed Hotel         Lone Star Love Potion, The         Never Kiss A Naughty Nanny         Sensuous Senator, The         Sex Please We're Sixty!         Sin, Sex & The CIA         There's A Burglar in My Bed         What is Susan's Secret?         Who's In Bed With The Butler?         Whose Wives Are They Anyway?