David Greenspan’s one-man show Plays May 26, 2011

Five-time Obie Award-winning actor-playwright David Greenspan comes direct from New York to present his acclaimed one-man show Plays, a word-for-word performance of the Gertrude Stein essay of the same name. Plays offers new insights into the possibilities of modern performance, and provides unique access to Stein’s otherwise complex ideas about literature and modern life. There is no more fitting performer to restore this remarkable piece to the public’s imagination than David Greenspan, whose own work is deeply influenced by her artistry.

David Greenspan is an actor-playwright based in New York. He has directed and/or performed many of his own works including Jack, The Home Show Pieces, 2 Samuel 11, Etc., Dead Mother, or Shirley Not All in Vain, She Stoops to Comedy, The Argument, The Myopia, an epic burlesque of tragic proportion and, together with songwriter Stephin Merritt, wrote Coraline. These have been produced at various New York theatres, most notably the Public, Playwrights Horizons, The Foundry, Target Margin and Manhattan Class Company. San Francisco credits include Coraline and She Stoops to Comedy at The San Francisco Playhouse, Dead Mother at The Traveling Jewish Theatre and Jack and 2 Samuel 11, Etc. at Thick Description. New York acting credits include Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (Classic Stage Company), Adam Rapp’s The Metal Children (Vineyard), William Hoffman’s Cornbury: The Queen’s Governor (Theatre Askew), Kathleen Tolan’s The Wax (Playwrights Horizons) and Kirk Lynn’s Lipstick Traces (The Foundry). An alumnus of New Dramatists, he has received Guggenheim and Lortel fellowships, an Alpert Award and an Obie for Sustained Achievement.

Presented in collaboration with American Conservatory Theater’s First Look Series.

DATE: Thursday, May 26 and Sunday, May 29, 2011

TIME: Thursday: 7-8:30 PM; Sunday: 1 – 2:30 PM and 4 –5:30 PM
INFORMATION/ PURCHASE: www.thecjm.org, info@thecjm.org or call 415.655.7800.

TICKETS: $20 general; $10 for Museum members and ACT subscribers