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Matthew Spangler is an American playwright, director, and professor of performance studies.
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Matthew Spangler is an American playwright, director, and professor of performance studies.
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 fourteen plays, but is best known for his adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner . 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.
Leslie Irene Coger Award for Distinguished Performance from the National Communication Association; Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award for Tortilla Curtain; San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards: Best Original Script, Best Overall Production - The Kite Runner; [1] Mary MacMurtrie Award for Best Drama for The Kite Runner, Arizona Daily Star; Best Theatre Production for The Kite Runner, Tucson Weekly; Best Theatre Production Liverpool Post Arts Awards; Elliot Norton Awards from Boston's Theatre Critics.
Matthew Spangler holds a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in Performance Studies, an M.Phil. in Theatre from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [2]
Matthew Spangler's writing has been published in Theatre Journal, Text and Performance Quarterly, The James Joyce Quarterly, The New Hibernia Review, Theatre Survey, Nineteenth-Century Literature, SIAR: The Journal of the Western Institute of Irish Studies, The South Atlantic Review , The Biographical Dictionary of Southern Writers, The Art of Elizabeth Bishop, and Performing the Crossroads: Critical Essays in Performance Studies and Irish Culture.
His book Staging Intercultural Ireland: New Plays and Practitioner Perspectives, (co-edited with Charlotte McIvor) about immigration and the performing arts in Ireland, is published by Cork University Press.
His play The Kite Runner, based on the novel by Khaled Hosseini, is published by Bloomsbury in the UK and Penguin in the US. Albatross is published by Stage Rights.
Matthew Spangler is Professor of Performance Studies at San Jose State University in California. [3]
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The Tortilla Curtain is a 1995 novel by American author T.C. Boyle. It is about middle-class values, illegal immigration, xenophobia, poverty, and environmental destruction. In 1997, it was awarded the French Prix Médicis Étranger prize for best foreign novel.
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Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-American novelist, UNHCR goodwill ambassador, and former physician. His debut novel The Kite Runner (2003) was a critical and commercial success; the book and his subsequent novels have all been at least partially set in Afghanistan and have featured an Afghan as the protagonist.
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