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MICHAEL JOHN GARCÉS has been the artistic director of Cornerstone Theater Company, a community-engaged ensemble based in Los Angeles, since 2006. For Cornerstone he has comissioned and produced new plays by a wide range of writers including Alison Carey, Eisa Davis, Sigrid Gilmer, Julie Hèbert, Peter Howard, Naomi Iizuka, Tom Jacobson, Page Leong, Lisa Loomer, Lynn Manning, Julie Marie Myatt and KJ Sanchez. He has directed shows at theaters across the country, including, most recently, Oedipus El Rey by Luis Alfaro at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. Recently featured in a cover story in American Theatre, he is on the executive board of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an alumnus of New Dramatists, and the recipient of the Princess Grace Statue, the Alan Schneider Director Award, and a TCG/New Generations Grant. Current projects include the world premiere of Marc Bamuthi Joseph's Red, Black and Green: A Blues at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and the launch of "The Hunger Cycle", Cornerstone's ambitious multi-year, nine play exploration of issues of food security, equity and eating across urban and rural California. His play, Los Illegals, created for Cornerstone in collaboration with communities of day laborers and domestic workers, has recently been published in Yale's Theatre Magazine (Summer, 2011).
Bio as of January, 2012.
American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:
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