Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Charles Morey

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2006

CHARLES MOREY is the author of 11 produced plays. FIGARO was commissioned and produced Off-Broadway by the Pearl Theatre Company and was named a New York Times “Critic’s Pick.” LAUGHING STOCK has received well over 100 productions around the world and THE LADIES MAN (written at MacDowell) has been produced more than 50 times. In addition his plays include THE GRANITE STATE, DUMAS’ CAMILLE, THE YELLOW LEAF (written at MacDowell), as well as adaptations of THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, A TALE OF TWO CITIES, THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, DRACULA and THE THREE MUSKETEERS. His plays have been produced at numerous professional theatres including: Denver Center Theatre Company, Pioneer Theatre Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare and Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Asolo Theatre Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, A Noise Within, Meadow Brook Theatre, PCPA Theaterfest, L.A.Theatreworks, Peterborough Players, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Elm Shakespeare Co., Centenary Stage Co., Creede Rep., Arvada Center, Shadowland Theatre, Sierra Rep., Theatre in the Square, Cortland Rep. as well as hundreds of amateur, university and international productions as far afield as New Zealand, Australia, the Netherlands, Austria, Singapore, and Israel. LAUGHING STOCK has been playing in Russian translation since 2013 in the repertory of the Arcadia Theatre in Moscow. He served as artistic director of the Peterborough Players for 12 years and the Pioneer Theatre Company for 28. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he received a M.F.A. from Columbia University.

Studios

Veltin

Charles Morey worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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