CHARLES L. MEE

A.R.T.: Cardenio, bobrauschenbergamerica (directed by Anne Bogart), Snow in June (directed by Chen Shi-Zheng), Full Circle (directed by Robert Woodruff), The Trojan Women: A Love Story (directed by Robert Woodruff at the A.R.T. Institute), and Orestes (directed by Tina Landau at the A.R.T. Institute). He is the only playwright member of the SITI Company, for whom he has written Orestes 2.0, bobrauschenbergamerica, Hotel Cassiopeia, soot and spit (the musical), and Under Construction. He has also written Vienna: Lusthaus, A Perfect Wedding, and a number of other plays in addition to his work inspired by Greek plays, including Big Love, True Love and others. His plays have been performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York Theatre Workshop, the Public Theatre, Lincoln Center, the Humana Festival, Steppenwolf, and other places in the United States as well as in Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Vienna, Istanbul and elsewhere. Among other awards, he is the recipient of the lifetime achievement award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His complete works are available on the internet at www.charlesmee.org. He is also the author of A Nearly Normal Life, a memoir of his struggle with polio. His work is made possible by the support of Jeanne Donovan Fisher and Richard B. Fisher.


A high-resolution photo of Charles Mee is available here.
Read an interview with Charles Mee about his play, Full Circle.

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