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Michael Gene Sullivan
Writer/Director

 

DIRECTING:


San Francisco Mime Troupe , Resident Director

RED STATE

MAKING A KILLING (with Ellen Callas)

VERONIQUE OF THE MOUNTIES IN: OPERATION FROZEN FREEDOM

MR. SMITH GOES TO OBSCURISTAN (with Keiko Shimosato)

1600 TRANSYLVANIA AVENUE

KILLING TIME

COAST CITY CONFIDENTIAL

*I AIN'T YO UNCLE (tour)


Circus Finelli, Resident Director

SLAPSTICK SLAVIC CABARET

FRAU BACHFEIFENGESICHT'S SPECTACLE OF PERFECTION


San Francisco Shakespeare Festival - School Tour

JULIUS CAESAR

Mystic Bison Theatre
DEATH AND THE MAIDEN

Castle Peak Productions, Director
HONG KONG MEMORIES (Noh Space Theater)
EXOTIC FORTUNES (SF, Hong Kong, Hawaii, Australia)

Harbor Theatre/Solano College
**I AM A MAN

Ironworkers Local 202
STEW! (San Francisco Fringe Festival)
ENVELOPE BOY

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
DAYS OF ABSENCE

SFMT Educational Theatre
GETTING REAL
NANCY DREW AND THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING BOOKS
KNOCKED UP!

Street of Dreams Theater Co-Artistic Director (1980-1984)
THE ACTORS NIGHTMARE
WHAT IS MAKING GILDA SO GREY?
NOON
THE TELL-TALE HEART
THE LOVELY AFTERNOON
SUPPRESSED DESIRES

*Drama-logue Critics Award for Outstanding Achievement in Directing
**Sacramento Area Regional Theatre Award


PLAYWRITING:


*DID ANYONE EVER TELL YOU, YOU LOOK LIKE HUEY P. NEWTON?

New York and Vancouver Fringe Festivals, Eureka Theatre of San Francisco

The Actor's Gang
1984
adapted from the novel "1984" by George Orwell

San Francisco Mime Troupe, Resident Playwright

2010: THE MUSICAL!
(with music and lyrics by Bruce Barthol and Pat Moran)

POSIBILIDAD, OR DEATH OF THE WORKER
(with music and lyrics by Pat Moran)

**TOO BIG TO FAIL
(with music and lyrics by Pat Moran)

***RED STATE
(with music and lyrics by Pat Moran)

MAKING A KILLING
(with Jon Brooks, music and lyrics by Pat Moran)

GODFELLAS
(with music and lyrics by Bruce Barthol, Pat Moran)

SHOWDOWN AT CRAWFORD GULCH

VERONIQUE OF THE MOUNTIES IN: OPERATION FROZEN FREEDOM
(with Bruce Barthol, music and lyrics by Bruce Barthol)

MR. SMITH GOES TO OBSCURISTAN
(with Josh Kornbluth, music and lyrics by Brice Barthol and Jason Sherbundy)

1600 TRANSYLVANIA AVENUE
(with music and lyrics by Bruce Barthol and Jason Sherbundy)

***EATING IT
(with Bruce Barthol, Ellen Callas, music and lyrics by Bruce Barthol)

ESCAPE TO CYBERIA
(with Greg Tate, Bruce Barthol, Ellan Callas, music and lyrics by Bruce Barthol)

CAPTAIN CHET'S HUNGRY HEART

Contributing writer  
SOUL SUCKERS FROM OUTER SPACE
OFFSHORE
SOCIAL WORK
CLINT REILLY'S REVENGE

*San Francisco Bay Area Drama Critics Circle Award Nomination - Best Solo Play
**San Francisco Bay Area Drama Critics Circle Award Nomination - Best Original Script, 2009
***San Francisco Bay Area Drama Critics Circle Award Nomination - Best Original Script, 2008
***BackStage West- Garland Award Honorable Mention, Playwriting

SCREENPLAYS


LOVE YOU MADLY
ANGELS (with John Grilley)
THE TOUR GUIDE (with Michael Ching)

TEACHING:


Acting Workshops

National Theater Conservatory/Denver Center Theater Company - Acting
San Francisco Shakespeare Festival - Midnight Shakespeare
California Shakespeare Festival - Theatre Appreciation, Acting
San Francisco Mime Troupe - Melodrama Characters and Physical Comedy
 

Playwriting
Magic Theatre - Young California Writers Project, 2001 - present

Play Creation Workshops
Trinity College, Dartmouth College, University of Southern California, University of California at Humboldt, Stanford University, New Colleges of San Francisco and Santa Rosa, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis

michael@michaelgenesullivan.com

"Michael Gene Sullivan's adaptation of George Orwell's dystopic satire about a totalitarian future strips away both the novel's London setting and it's specific critique of Stalinism, while updating the stories sensibilities for the 21st century.
- Los Angeles Weekly


" Sullivan does an exemplary job of distilling "1984's" political essence... Sullivan and Robbins manage to communicate the pointed richness of Orwell's thought.
- Los Angeles Times


"The inexhaustible purveyors of agitprop musical comedy have responded with their sharpest, funniest and most exhilarating show in years!" - for writing/directing 1600 Transylvania Avenue
 - San Francisco Chronicle


"Boldly conceived, riveting... Michael Gene Sullivan uses virtually every tool at his disposal" for directing I Am A Man."
 - Daily Republic


"Sullivan has kept things clean and broad and easy to read. 'Coast City Confidential', is by far the I best thing the San Francisco Mime Troupe has produced I since I've been reviewing it."
- San Jose Mercury News