Obie Winner Matthew MacGuire Brings WILD MAN to Son of Semele, 5/26-5/28

Obie winner Matthew MacGuire will bring his critically acclaimed show WILD MAN to Son of Semele for three performance on May 26th, 27th and 28th. The performance is a one man show written, directed, and performed by MacGuire.

n WILD MAN, acclaimed and award-winning playwright/actor/director Matthew Maguire grapples with mortality as he explores the wildest moments of his own life. Probing everything from runaway horses to the Book of Esdras, from smuggling watermelons to the art of cheatin' death, this deeply personal and compelling journey exposes the Wild Man in each of us, and begs us to unleash him.

MATTHW MAGUIRE won an OBIE award for Performance in 1998 and an OBIE Award for Direction in 2007. He is the Director of the Theatre Program at Fordham College at Lincoln Center, and the co-artistic director of Creation Production Company, which he founded with Susan Mosakowski. The company has produced forty-nine original works for the stage. His plays include The Seven Deadly Elements, based on the collage novel by Max Ernst, Eye Figure Fiction, Untitled (The Dark Ages Flat Out), The American Mysteries, The Memory Theatre of Giulio Camillo, Propaganda, Fun City, Visions of Don Juan, The Tower, and its solo version, Babel Stories, a science fiction opera, Chaos, with Michael Gordon, The Window Man, a musical with Bruce Barthol and Greg Pliska, Phaedra, Throwin' Bones, which began as a collaboration with architects Diller + Scofidio titled Skin at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, Luscious Music, which he performed as a solo at the Architecture Museum of Basel, and the OBIE Award winning Abandon, with a score by Andrew Ingkavet. His work also includes the creation with Philip Glass and Molissa Fenley of A Descent into the Maelström for Australia's Adelaide Festival. His directing projects include Molière and Charpentier's Le Malade Imaginaire for the Long Beach Opera, and Manhattan Theatre Club's Downtown Uptown Festival.

He is an active alumnus of New Dramatists, and served as chairman of the Theatre panel of the New York State Council on the Arts. His awards include fellowships from the NEA, the McKnight and Hammerstein Foundations, commissions from the NEA, NYSCA, and Meet the Composer, and a 2008 award from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He received his MFA from the Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. His recent projects include a new musical with composer Daniel Levy called Laughing Pictures, a Hollywood Odyssey. His writing has been published by Sun & Moon Press, Backstage Books/Watson Guptill, Manchester University Press, TheatreForum, Performing Arts Journal, and The Drama Review. In 2009 NoPassport Press publishEd Matthew Maguire: Three Plays. For texts and collages go to: www.creationproduction.org

Tickets to the event are $20 and may be purchased online at sonofsemele.secure.force.com/ticket. At each of these three benefit performances, SOSE will raffle off a goodie or two. Raffle tickets can be purchased at the door.

Son of Semele Ensemble is a collective of theatre professionals that recognizes emerging cultural questions through the production of new or under-exposed plays. We produce intimate theatre to provoke an awakening within our audience and ourselves.

For more information, visit www.sonofsemele.org.

 

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