Matthew Spangler

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Matthew Spangler

Literature

#4005

World Rank

#6483

Historical Rank

#1840

USA Rank

Writing

#1139

World Rank

#1559

Historical Rank

#770

USA Rank

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According to Wikipedia, Matthew Spangler is an American playwright, director, and professor of performance studies. Body of work Matthew Spangler's plays have been produced on Broadway, in London's West End at Wyndham's Theatre and the Playhouse Theatre, off Broadway at 59E59 Theatres, and at theatres throughout the world. He has written fifteen plays, but is best known for his adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner. His most recent play, an adaptation of Christy Lefteri’s novel The Beekeeper of Aleppo, co- written with Nesrin Alrefaai and directed by Miranda Cromwell, opened at the Nottingham Playhouse in February 2023 followed by a five month tour of the UK and Ireland. His other plays include Operation Ajax, about the CIA led coup against then Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953; Albatross, based on the poem "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and recipient of two Elliot Norton Awards from Boston's theatre critics; Tortilla Curtain based on the book by T.C. Boyle and recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award and finalist for the Best New Play by San Diego's Theatre Critics' Circle; The Forgotten Empress, about the Mughal Empress Noor Jahan, which has been presented in Los Angeles, Pakistan, San Jose, San Francisco, and Houston; and Together Tea based on the novel by Marjan Kamali. Other plays include one-person shows of James Joyce’s Dubliners and Finnegans Wake; A Paradise It Seems, an adaptation of John Cheever’s short stories; Mozart!, a musical theatre adaptation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s letters; and adaptation of Jasmin Darznik's Masquerade. He co-writes many of his plays.

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Matthew Spangler's Published Works

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"A fadograph of a yestern scene": Performances promising authenticity in dublin's bloomsday (2002) (7)
Staging Intercultural Ireland: New Plays and Practitioner Perspectives (2014) (5)
Winds of Change: Bloomsday, Immigration, and "Aeolus" in Street Theater (2008) (4)
Of Snow and Dust: The Presence of James Joyce in Ernest Gaines's "A Lesson Before Dying" (2002) (4)
"Haunted to the Edge of Trance": Performance and Orality in the Early Poems of W. B. Yeats (2006) (3)
Fall and Recover: Creating Modern Dance with Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Ireland (2016) (3)
Artist's Statement: Adapting T. C. Boyle's novel The Tortilla Curtain and Subsequent Production by the San Diego Repertory Theatre (2013) (3)
Performing ‘the Troubles’: Murals and the Spectacle of Commemoration at Free Derry Corner (2009) (2)
Performing Intercultural Hybridity: Alain Destandau's Antigone Viêt Nam at the Hue Festival (2010) (1)
Performance, Identity, and Immigration Law: A Theatre of Undocumentedness . By Gad Guterman. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014; pp. viii + 236. $90 cloth, $90 e-book. (2015) (1)
The Beekeeper of Aleppo: a transnational collaboration (2022) (1)
Raising the Wind (2008) (0)
The Parable of the Plums (review) (2005) (0)
The New Irish in Irish Theatre: Arambe Productions and Irish/Nigerian Performance (2008) (0)
Review: Irish Culture and Colonial Modernity, 1800–2000: The Transformation of Oral Space (2013) (0)
A Verse ‘In Action’ (2002) (0)

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San Jose State University