MICHAEL YATES CROWLEY
Playwright & Performer

Michael Yates Crowley is a 2008-2009 Fellow in Playwriting from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and Artist in Residence at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. His plays have been performed in Berlin and Chicago, and in New York at PS 122, HERE Arts Center, Ars Nova, and Collective:Unconscious. His current one-man show, Righteous Money, will be produced at the Pleasance Courtyard this August as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Other plays by Michael Yates Crowley include The Ted Haggard Monologues, winner of Artistic Excellence Prize at the Undergroundzero Festival, which has been filmed by HBO, translated and published in German, and adapted for feature film by Alexis Boling for Harmonium Films & Music. Also Evanston: A Rare Comedy, presented at Performance Space 122 and HERE Arts Center in 2009; RAG FUR BLOOD BONE, an adaptation of the Gilgamesh epic; and I can eat the sun, read at Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

Michael twice received the Seymour Brick Memorial Prize in Playwriting from Columbia University, where he studied English. Since 2005 he has curated Hearth Gods, a reading series in the East Village.