Wolf 359 (wolf359.org) is a New York City-based theater company. Since the company’s founding in 2007, Wolf 359 shows have toured to Berlin, Edinburgh, Chicago, and elsewhere; their one-man show, The Ted Haggard Monologues, a New York Magazine Critic’s Pick, was filmed by HBO and toured throughout Germany. In New York City, their work has been seen at PS 122, 59E59, Ars Nova, HERE Arts Center, and the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, where they are currently Artists in Residence.
“a very gifted group of young artists” - Andy Horowitz, Culturebot
“Crowley ist ein begabter Zauberer.” - Manfred Strecker, Neue Westphälische Zeitung
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MICHAEL YATES CROWLEY
Playwright & Performer
Michael Yates Crowley is a New York City-based playwright and performer. He is currently a member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and Artist-in-Residence at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. His plays have been performed in Berlin, Edinburgh, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, and in New York at 59E59, PS 122, HERE Arts Center, Ars Nova, and Collective:Unconscious, among others. His most recent one-man show, Righteous Money, was produced at the Pleasance Theater in 2010 as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; a German-language production of Righteous Money is currently touring Germany.
Other plays by Michael Yates Crowley include The Ted Haggard Monologues, winner of Artistic Excellence Prize at the Undergroundzero Festival, which has been filmed by HBO, translated and published in German, and adapted for feature film by Alexis Boling for Harmonium Films & Music. Also Evanston: A Rare Comedy, presented at Performance Space 122 and HERE Arts Center in 2009; RAG FUR BLOOD BONE, an adaptation of the Gilgamesh epic; and I can eat the sun, read at Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
Crowley was a 2008-2009 Fellow in Playwriting from the New York Foundation for the Arts and twice received the Seymour Brick Memorial Prize in Playwriting from Columbia University, where he studied English. Since 2005 he has curated Hearth Gods, a reading series in the East Village.
MICHAEL RAU
Director
Michael Rau is a New York based director and adapter, specializing in new plays, re-imagined classics, and opera. His work has been presented at PS 122, HERE Arts Center, Ars Nova and Dixon Place and his productions have toured to Germany, Greece, and Ecuador. He recently made his German language directing premiere with Thomas Bradshaw’s Was Ubrig Bleibt at Theater Bielefeld.
His New York credits include: Evanston: A Rare Comedy, The Ted Haggard Monologues (a New York Magazine Critic’s Pick) at the Collective: Unconscious, Righteous Money (Ars Nova, and toured to the Voices of Change festival in Berlin), The Italian Songbook, a chamber opera with the NYU Steinhardt School of Music, and an adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull, (developed in Papingo, Greece and presented at the Bushwick Starr). His show, the games we used to play, which he co-created with Max Goldblatt, took first place at Les Fêtes théâtrales du Suroît in 2005, and his production of Four Saints in Three Acts was selected as a noteworthy production of the 2008 Opera America Director/Designer Showcase. His production of The Great God Brown was selected for the 2011 Prague Quadrennial. He has directed readings of new plays for New York Theater Workshop, Primary Stages and the Dramatists Guild.
Michael Rau is a recipient of the Willard Fellowship, a 2006 Kennedy Center Directing Fellowship, a 2007 New Play Network Directing Fellowship and a 2008 TCG National Conference Grant. He has served as an assistant for John Turturro at Classic Stage Company, Les Waters at A.R.T., Anne Bogart at Glimmerglass Opera, and Robert Woodruff at San Francisco Opera. He is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. He is currently an Artist in Residence at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center and is on the faculty of the Steinhardt School of Music at NYU.
