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Michael Patrick Spillers

MICHAEL PATRICK SPILLERS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Michael Patrick Spillers was born and raised in the Ozarks, and moved to Los Angeles in 1989 to study Theatre at the University of Southern California. He wrote and directed his first play, "WHISKEY RAINBOWS", as part of USC's 1992 Experimental Theatre season, for which he won the Jack Nicholson Award for playwriting. His second play, "WHITE BOY", premiered at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica in 1995. He has co-produced and directed revivals of "WHITE BOY" for the Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles, and 6th@Penn Theatre in San Diego. "WHITE BOY" received an off-Broadway production in 2002, at Wings Theatre in New York City. "ALWAYS & FOREVER" was conceived in 2005 during a playwriting workshop at Casa 0101 Theatre in Boyle Heights. the following year, Watts Village Theater Company produced a staged reading of "ALWAYS & FOREVER", directed by MacArthur Fellow Luis Alfaro.

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         Always & Forever         Clean         Divine Thing - the Joey Stefano Story         Follow         Hip Stir         Rise Up!         Whiskey Rainbows         White Boy         Whittier Blvd

Always & Forever

Synopsis:
ALWAYS & FOREVER follows Alma, a teenage girl from Bell Gardens CA, who is determined to have local corrido-singing heartthrob Adan Sanchez perform at her quinceanera. Alma's journey into womanhood gets complicated when she prays to the Virgin Mary for guidance, but accidentally conjures Jesus Malverde, the narco-saint. the play explores Mexican-American culture, local landmarks, sexuality, and the effects of the war in Iraq. Add a dash of Morrissey, a crash-course in the music of Northwestern Mexico, and a '56 Chevy (driven by a uniquely spiritual vato with a student revolutionary at his side) - and you have the beginning of a ride that is far from ordinary. ALWAYS & FOREVER ". . .has a truly authentic voice, dripping in Los Angeles Latin youth culture" (Angela Garcia Combs, LA Stage Magazine). Music, memory and magic realism collide to reveal a story that is sometimes tragic, sometimes humorous, but always unquestionably Los Angeles.

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Clean

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Part of L A Views V

1st Produced:
Company of Angels at the Alexandria, Los Angeles    28 Apr 2012

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Short play

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Divine Thing - the Joey Stefano Story

Synopsis:
the story of gay porn star Joey Stefano

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1st Produced:
St. Genesius Theatre, Los Angeles    1999

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Bio-play Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, historical characters

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Follow

Synopsis:
Daniel and Marcus are getting married. They have an adopted son - Noah - who calls them Dad and Pop. Then Marcus' religious father comes to town and leads a campaign against non-traditional families. Marcus attempts a reconciliation with his father

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1st Produced:
The Historic Mafundi Watts Coffee House, Los Angeles    23 Oct 2014

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Brown & Out

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Hip Stir

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Rise Up!

Synopsis:
L.A Views V: April 29, 1992 features 8 short plays set in the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest that followed the exoneration of four LAPD officers involved in the Rodney King beating. the unrest sparked widespread looting, assault, and arson. In all, 53 people died, thousands more were injured, and property damage topped 1 billion dollars. Twenty years later, these plays dig through our City's ashes and offer accounts of a time whose impact on Angelenos is still being assessed. From business owners to looters, newscasters to people trapped in the darkness of it all, a diversity of perspectives shed light on the legacy of 4/29/92.

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written by Gabriel Rivas Gomez, Jonathan Ceniceroz, Julie Taiwo Oni, Malik Burrogughs, Mayank Keshaviah, Michael Patrick Spillers & Nic Cha Kim

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Company of Angels at the Alexandria, 501 S.Spring St., 3rd Floor., Downtown Los Angeles, CA90013    30 Apr 2012

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Whiskey Rainbows

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White Boy

Synopsis:
A mild mannered Missouri boy falls head over heels in love with a Chicano gangbanger from East Los Angeles

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1st Produced:
Wings Theater, 154 Christopher Street, Basement, New York, NY 10014    2002

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

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Whittier Blvd

Synopsis:
Will and Vic come to an understanding about Vic's gay life style

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Part of "Third Brown and Out Festival"

1st Produced:
Casa 0101 Theater, Boyle Heights, California    Oct 2013

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Brown & Out

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