Creation Production Company's encore production of WILD MAN, the explosive autobiographical performance from two-time Obie Award-winner Matthew Maguire, begins tonight at HERE Arts Center (145 6th Avenue at Dominick Street) following its sold-out, critically acclaimed production at The Wild Project earlier this year. As previously announced, WILD MAN will play two performances only: this evening (Monday, April 5) and tomorrow evening (Tuesday, April 6). This production is being presented through HEREstay, HERE's curated rental program, which provides artists with subsidized space and equipment, as well as technical and administrative support.
In 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.
Written, performed and directed by Mr. Maguire, WILD MAN features lighting design by Ryan Seelig.
WILD MAN has been made possible in part by the New York Foundation for the Arts, which awarded a grant to Mr. Maguire for its creation. This project was made possible with public funds from NYSCA.
WILD MAN will play the evenings of Monday, April 5th and Tuesday, April 6th. Both performances are at 7:00 PM. Tickets are $18 and are available
www.HERE.org/wildman or via telephone at (212) 352-3101.
www.creationproduction.orgMATTHEW 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 publish
Ed Matthew Maguire: Three Plays. For texts and collages go to: www.creationproduction.org
