Mac Wellman
Distinguished Professor
English
Mac Wellman's recent work includes Muazzez, with actor Steve Mellor, at the Chocolate Factory; Woo World Wu, with Timothy Siragusa, and Horrocks (and Toutatis Too) with Erin Mallon. The Difficulty of Crossing a Field (with composer David Lang) and 1965 UU for performer Paul Lazar. In 2003, he received his third Obie Award, for Lifetime Achievement (Antigone, Jennie Richee and Bitter Bierce all cited). In 2004 he received an award from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts. In 2006 his third novel, Q's Q, was published by Green Integer, and in 2008 a volume of stories, A Chornicle of the Madness of Small Worlds, was published by Tripp Street Press. His novel, Linda Perdido, won FC2's Catharine Doctorow prize in 2011. In June 2014 his play 3 2's; or Afar will be presented at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing. He is the Donald I. Fine Distinguished Professor of Play Writing at Brooklyn College.
Show Scholarly Activities and Professional Accomplishments
Education:
DOCTOR DEGREE WAIVER - 1998
Areas of Expertise:
Playwriting.
Books and Publications
Sincerity Forever. New York: Broadway Play Publishing. (Books and Publications: Book) 2006
Strange Elegies. New York: Roof Books. (Books and Publications: Book) 2005
Creative Work
My opera with David Lang, The Difficulty of Crossing a Field, received a concert performance at Roulette in Brooklyn on Sept. 28. 2014
Stage adaptations of three stories: Horrocks, Wu World Woo and Muazzes from his book A Chronicle of the Madness of Small Worlds. 2014
3 2'S, or Afar, presented at Dixon Place in New York, and later at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing. 2011
A Chronicle of the Madness of Small Worlds. Stories. Tripp Street Press. 2008
Harm's Way. New York: Broadway Play Publishing. 2008
Seven Very Different Plays. An anthology of new American drama. New York: Broadway Play Publishing. 2007
A Murder of Crows. Mount Holyoke College. Mount Holyoke, Mass. 2005
Energumen. Longacre Lea. Washington, D.C. 2005
School for Devils. The Hangar. Ithaca, N.Y. 2005
The Invention of Tragedy. Write Act, New York University; Classic Stage Company, New York. 2005
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
FC2's Catharine Doctorow award for fiction for Linda Perdido. (Awards and Honors) 2012
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