Richard Maxwell
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Richard Maxwell is an experimental director and playwright in New York City. He is originally from West Fargo, North Dakota.
[edit] Productions
Maxwell's plays have been performed in New York at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, HERE Arts Center, P.S. 122, The Kitchen, and in theaters in cities throughout the world, including London, Berlin, Dublin, Vienna, Brussels, and Columbus, Ohio.[1]
- Billings is a play about a husband and wife moving from Billings, Montana to Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was first performed in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1996, and then late at the Ontological Theater in 1997. It was reviewed favorably in The Village Voice.
- Burger King chronicles the work days of several employees at the hamburger joint, and was produced in Williamstown and New York in 1997.
- Flight Courier Service centers around a flight courier who becomes entangled with two members of the Malaysian mafia. It was performed at the Ontological Theater in 1997, and in 2006, director Jamie Poskin produced Maxwell's script at Stanford University.[2]
- The End of Reality. Maxwell's latest show follows the day to day events of a security guard. The Times wrote an article about the playwright as he prepared for the opening of The End of Reality. The show is currently on tour until May 2007 at the Kunsten Festival in Brussels, Belgium.[3]
[edit] Publications
- Plays Volume 1 was published in 2000 by TCG, and includes Maxwell's works from 1996-2000.[4]
