[NEohioPAL]Play Reading at CSU

Wed Sep 13 13:27:47 PDT 2006

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The Northeast Ohio MFA, in conjunction with the CSU Poetry center and the 
Departments of English and Dramatic Arts will be hosting a reading of Big 
Death & Little Death by playwright Mickey Birnbaum on Thursday September 
21st at 7 p. m. in the upstairs theatre in the Dramatic Arts Bldg. The 
reading is free and open to the public. The reading will be directed by 
Professor Kenshaka Ali.

Mickey Birnbaum's play Big Death & Little Death inaugurated Woolly 
Mammoth's new Washington D.C. theatre in May, 2005. It was subsequently 
produced at Perishable Theatre in Providence in October 2005, and will be 
produced at Crowded Fire in San Francisco in 2007. Big Death & Little Death 
was featured in A.S.K. Theater Projects' New Works Festival 2001, the Bay 
Area Playwrights' Festival 2003, and the 2005 National New Plays Network 
Conference at Stanford. Mickey's most recent play, Bleed Rail, has been 
workshopped at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2005, and at Cypress 
College in Orange County, CA, and will be produced at Boston Court Theatre 
in Los Angeles in Spring 2007. Other produced plays include Seeing the 
Elephant (Edge of the World Festival, Los Angeles, 2001) and Tabak (as part 
of The Witching Hour, Met Theatre, 2005). He has written three short plays 
for the Virginia Avenue Project, a non-profit organization which matches 
playwrights and actors with at-risk children. As a screenwriter, he has 
written scripts for such studios as Universal, Paramount, Columbia/Sony, 
and Dreamworks, and developed material with directors as diverse as Robert 
Mandel, Tom McLoughlin, Wesley Strick, and Jay Roach. He adapted the novel 
Simon Silber for Leonardo di Caprio's Appian Way Productions. He wrote the 
screenplay for The Tie That Binds (Interscope, 1995), starring Moira Kelly, 
Keith Carradine, and Darryl Hannah. Mickey's original screenplay Used Guys 
has Ben Stiller attached to star, and Jay Roach (Austin Powers, Meet the 
Parents) attached to direct. Mickey is a founding member of Dog Ear, a Los 
Angeles collective of nationally-renowned playwrights 
(www.dogearplays.org), and a member of PEN West and the Writers' Guild of 
America, West. He mentors writing students under the auspices of the UCLA 
Alumni Association. He plays bass accordion in the Accordionaires ensemble. 
Mickey is a Los Angeles native.

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The Northeast Ohio MFA, in conjunction with the CSU Poetry center and the
Departments of English and Dramatic Arts will be hosting a reading of
Big Death & Little Death by playwright Mickey Birnbaum on
Thursday September 21st at 7 p. m. in the upstairs theatre in the
Dramatic Arts Bldg. The reading is free and open to the public. The
reading will be directed by Professor Kenshaka Ali. 
 
Mickey Birnbaum's play Big Death & Little Death inaugurated
Woolly Mammoth's new Washington D.C. theatre in May, 2005. It was
subsequently produced at Perishable Theatre in Providence in October
2005, and will be produced at Crowded Fire in San Francisco in 2007.
Big Death & Little Death was featured in A.S.K. Theater
Projects' New Works Festival 2001, the Bay Area Playwrights' Festival
2003, and the 2005 National New Plays Network Conference at Stanford.
Mickey's most recent play, Bleed Rail, has been workshopped at the
Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2005, and at Cypress College in Orange
County, CA, and will be produced at Boston Court Theatre in Los Angeles
in Spring 2007. Other produced plays include Seeing the Elephant
(Edge of the World Festival, Los Angeles, 2001) and Tabak (as part
of The Witching Hour, Met Theatre, 2005). He has written three
short plays for the Virginia Avenue Project, a non-profit organization
which matches playwrights and actors with at-risk children. As a
screenwriter, he has written scripts for such studios as Universal,
Paramount, Columbia/Sony, and Dreamworks, and developed material with
directors as diverse as Robert Mandel, Tom McLoughlin, Wesley Strick, and
Jay Roach. He adapted the novel Simon Silber for Leonardo di
Caprio's Appian Way Productions. He wrote the screenplay for The Tie
That Binds (Interscope, 1995), starring Moira Kelly, Keith Carradine,
and Darryl Hannah. Mickey's original screenplay Used Guys has Ben
Stiller attached to star, and Jay Roach (Austin Powers, Meet
the Parents) attached to direct. Mickey is a founding member of Dog
Ear, a Los Angeles collective of nationally-renowned playwrights
(<a href=3D"http://www.dogearplays.org/" eudora=3D"autourl">www.dogearplays.org</a>),
and a member of PEN West and the Writers' Guild of America, West. He
mentors writing students under the auspices of the UCLA Alumni
Association. He plays bass accordion in the Accordionaires ensemble.
Mickey is a Los Angeles native. 
 
 
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