Just as life during the pandemic was color-coded with different hues representing different levels of danger, life in its aftermath has become shaded in similar ways. As a self-styled “Seeker of Beauty with Beauty,” (borrowing from a quote by W.E.B.
Clive Barnes, The New York Times on "Ladyhouse Blues": “Kevin O'Morrison's "Ladyhouse Blues" at times has the haunting quality of Chekhov.”
Walter Kerr in NY Times: "A playwright to be waited for"
Emory Lewis in The Bergen County Record on "Dark Ages": "Here is science fiction with a heart."
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I began work in the theatre as a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre, trained under Eva LeGallienne and Robert Lewis. When I began to write I was grounded in the works of the great dramatists of the past and I learned from all of them.
When I began to write novels they remained my mentors rather than Melville or Tolstoy or Twain, because film has put theatrical demands on the modern novel.
Birth Place
St. Louis, MO USA
Accomplishments
The Pinter Review Gold Medal for Drama ("The Nightgatherers"),
NEA Playwright Fellow,
CAPS Playwright Fellow,
National Repertory Theatre "First Prize" for "A Party For Lovers"
Two plays chosen for staging at The Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference
"The Morgan Yard" chosen to open The 1974 Dublin Theatre Festival, and later to be The State of Missouri's contribution to the celebration of our nation's BiCentennial, in a production that open at The Missouri Repertory Theatre, then toured the state.
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