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Marcus Gardley is a multiple award-winning poet-playwright who recently won the prestigious 2008 Helen Merrill Award. His most recently produced play, Love is a Dream House in Lorin received outstanding critical acclaim in a sold-out, extended run, and was nominated for the National Critics Steinberg New Play Award. He has had six plays produced including: dance of the holy ghost at Yale Repertory Theatre (now under a commercial Broadway option), (L)imitations of Life, at the Empty Space and like sun fallin' in the mouth at the National Black Theatre Festival. He is a 2007 Kellsering Honoree and the recipient of the SF Bay Areaís Gerbode Emerging Playwright Award, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre Award, a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Grant, a NEA/TCG Playwriting Participant Residency, the Eugene Oí Neil Memorial Scholarship, and the ASCAP Cole Porter Prize. He has received commissions from the New York State Council on the Arts, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Shotgun Players, South Coast Repertory, Traveling Jewish Theatre, Arena Stage, New Sounds Theatre, Steelpoint Productions, Harlem Stage and three from Yale Repertory Theatre. He holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale Drama School and is a member of New Dramatists and the Lark Play Development Center. Gardley, a native of West Oakland was recently chosen as one of 50 writers to watch by Dramatists Magazine.
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