Mac Wellman

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Mac Wellman

Literature

#1882

World Rank

#3545

Historical Rank

#908

USA Rank

Writing

#516

World Rank

#784

Historical Rank

#337

USA Rank

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Why Is Mac Wellman Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, Mac Wellman, born John McDowell Wellman on March 7, 1945, in Cleveland, Ohio, is an American playwright, author, and poet. He is best known for his experimental work in the theater which rebels against theatrical conventions, often abandoning such traditional elements as plot and character altogether. In 1990, he received an Obie Award for Best New American Play . In 1991, he received another Obie Award for Sincerity Forever. He has received a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers Award, and the 2003 Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement, as well as the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award .

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Mac Wellman's Published Works

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Published Works

Antigone (2002) (55)
The Theatre of Good Intentions (2018) (8)
A Chrestomathy of 22 Answers to 22 Wholly Unaskable and Unrelated Questions concerning Political and Poetic Theater (1993) (7)
The Difficulty of Crossing a Field (1997) (6)
The Difficulty of Crossing a Field: Nine New Plays (2008) (4)
A Play for a Broken World (2002) (3)
New Downtown Now: An Anthology Of New Theater From Downtown New York (2006) (3)
The Bad Infinity: Eight Plays (1994) (2)
Figure of Speech: An Interview with Mac Wellman (1992) (2)
The Land of Fog and Whistles (1993) (1)
The Difficulty of Defending a Form (2000) (1)
"A Play That Has to Be Performed:" From the Gertrude Stein Symposium at New York University (2002) (1)
New Downtown Now (2006) (1)
New Writing and the Classics: An Exchange (1990) (0)
The Professional Frenchman (1990) (0)
A swindle of windows (2012) (0)
Mac Wellman's Antigone: The Hegelian Theme (2014) (0)
CAT'S - PAW: A MEDITATION ON THE DON JUAN THEME (1997) (0)
The Far Side of a Watershed (2020) (0)
A Play to Be Performed: Excerpts from the Gertrude Stein Symposium at New York University (2002) (0)
Terminal Hip: A Play (2018) (0)
Content’s Dreams: Essays 1975–1984 by Charles Bernstein (review) (2018) (0)
Theatre Is Not Safe by Gordon Rogoff (review) (2018) (0)
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre: Friend or Foe (2018) (0)
Harm's Way (1984) (0)

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Mac Wellman?

Mac Wellman is affiliated with the following schools:

Brooklyn College