Marcus Gardley
c/o Phyllis Wender
Rosenstone and Wender Agency
38 East 29th Street, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10016
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Marcus Gardley, poet-playwright was born and bread on the rolling hills, lively churches, and moody-blue streets of Oakland, California. He is a professor of Creative Writing at Columbia University and works extensively at middle schools and high schools in New York. He has received commissions from the Yale Repertory Theatre, Playwright’s Horizon, The Shotgun Players, South Coast Repertory and Second Stage Theatre. He is the recipient of the Bay Area playwrights Fellowship Foundation Award, the Eugene O’ Neil Memorial Scholarship and the ASCAP Cole Porter Prize. He graduated from the Yale School of Drama in 2004 and he is a proud member of New Dramatists.
dance of the holy ghosts
a memory scape
3M, 3W
sparse set, with preferable use of scrim
Oscar Clifton prefers to live his memories rather than his life. But
when his estranged grandson comes calling after eighteen years, Oscar
must face a very different version of his past. Together, what future
can they make when they are so alike they can’t stand each other?
Something is going to have to arouse them, something beyond the smell of
sweet potato pie and the muddy blues of the Delta, something
supernatural. dance of the holy ghosts is a poetic family drama that
waltzes from the hilarious innocence of a childhood crush to the
heartbreak of a ruined marriage. It is a memory-scape that arouses all
the senses, wakes the imagination, and leaves no stone unturned.
Yale Rep Production (March 2006), directed
by Liz Diamond