Charles L. Mee
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Charles L. Mee is an American playwright and author. He was born in Barrington, Illinois in 1938. He was stricken with polio in 1953, which he details in his 1999 memoir A Nearly Normal Life. His plays include: The Imperialists at the Club Cave Canem, Full Circle, The Trojan Women: A Love Story, Snow in June, True Love, bobrauschenbergamerica, A Perfect Wedding, Big Love, Viena Lusthaus, Orestes 2.0, The Investigation of the Murder in El Salvador, Fetes de la Nuit, Summertime, Wintertime, Agamemnon 2.0, Iphigenia 2.0, Queens Boulevard, Chiang Kai Shek and First Love.
As of February, 2007, all of his plays are available on his website with an invitation to other artists to use them as copyright-free texts as a "resource" for their own work. However, the website indicates that the play texts as they appear on the site are protected by copyright, and that permission from his agent must be obtainted before performing them "essentially or substantially as I have composed them."
Mee is also an accomplished historian, having written about the Potsdam Conference and World War II.
He currently teaches playwrighting at the Columbia University School of the Arts. [1]
