Michael Downend
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Playwright |
| Location | Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | Scriptwriter for stage and television. Member Dramatists Guild, Writers Guild of America, PEN. Former U.S. Marine, graduate British Royal Marine Commando School. Writer, narrator PBS documentary, A JOURNEY TO THE ENDLESS MOUNTAINS and other programs. MIN, a play for radio broadcast on NPR, was first in a series about women – ordinary and heroic – commissioned by public radio. Recipient OADR/Rockefeller Grant for play THE MOLA MOLA FISH and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts playwriting fellowships. AN AMERICAN WIFE, a stage play written in collaboration with his late wife, novelist and poet, Karen Blomain, premiered with an Equity production to sold-out performances at The Electric Theatre Company. Nora Hussey, head of Wellesley’s theatre program, directed the play in Boston in spring 2012. Honored for narrative and photo coverage of the March for Soviet Jewry in Washington, DC. His play, HIGH THIN CIRRUS, sold out at New York's Westbeth theatre in 2012. A new, full-length play in progress is THE LIGHT FROM DISTANT OBJECTS. |
| Interests | Aviation, painting, photography, sailing. |
| Favorite Movies | THE CONSTANT GARDENER, THE ENGLISH PATIENT, CASABLANCA, RANDOM HARVEST, WATERLOO BRIDGE, LAURA, DAYS OF HEAVEN, MONA LISA, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, SUNSET BOULEVARD, THE SWIMMER, THE GODFATHER, THE END OF THE AFFAIR, THE DEAD, UNDER THE VOLCANO, HOWARD'S END, SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, MIDNIGHT COWBOY, FARGO, MANHATTAN, THE CONVERSATION, SHANE, ALL ABOUT EVE, CHINATOWN, THE VERDICT |
| Favorite Music | Camina Burana, O Mio Babbino Cara, The Folks Who Live on the Hill |
| Favorite Books | UNDER THE VOLCANO, THE GREAT GATSBY, THE END OF THE AFFAIR, DESPERATE CHARACTERS, THORNTON WILDER - A LIFE, WALLACE STEVENS - Words Chosen Out of Desire, T S ELIOT - The Complete Poems and Plays, STELLA ADLER'S Books on American playwrights as well as on Ibsen, Chekhov and Strindberg. |
You're trapped in a well with a goat and a slinky. Describe how you will escape.
I will show the goat how the slinky works then have it pull me up using the slinky technique while I hang onto the goat's horns.