The Rule of Fate
by Marlane Meyer
Director: Jody McAuliffe
Staged Readings, Friday & Saturday October 2 & 3, 2009
Presented as part of Manbites Dog Theater's Other Voices Series

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:
Marlane Gomard Meyer is an Hawaiian Swedish playwright. She grew up near the ocean but never learned to swim. Her work includes the plays Etta Jenks, The Geography of Luck, Kingfish, Moe’s Lucky Seven, The Chemistry of Change, and The Mystery of Attraction. Marlane lives with three dogs in a house under the Hollywood sign in Beachwood Canyon.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Jody McAuliffe has developed and directed new plays nationally and regionally: including Marlane Meyer’s The Mystery of Attraction, Pacific Playwrights Festival, South Coast Repertory; Neal Bell's Shadow of Himself, New Play Summit, Denver Center Theater; The Special Prosecutor, her translation/adaptation of Gogol's Inspector General; Gulag Follies, adapted from Shalamov’s Kolyma Tales; and her adaptation of Don DeLillo's Mao II. Her publications include My Lovely Suicides; Crimes of Art and Terror (with Frank Lentricchia); Mysterious Actions: New American Drama; Plays, Movies, and Critics. Her adaptation of My Lovely Suicides (Semi-Finalist, Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Center National Playwrights Conference), was produced by Little Green Pig (she’s a member) at Manbites Dog Theater Other Voices Series (2007). Former National Endowment for the Arts Directing Fellow at the Mark Taper Forum and member of the Directing Workshop for Women at American Film Institute, she is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. She teaches at Duke University.

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Manbites Dog Theater’s 2009-2010 season is made possible in part through gifts to the Durham Arts Council United Arts Fund, and by grants from the NC Arts Council, an agency supported by the state of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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