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Matthew Spangler is an American playwright, director, and professor of performance studies. ==Body of work== Matthew Spangler's plays have been produced by the San Jose Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cleveland Play House, San Diego Repertory Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Citadel Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse (staged reading), the Nottingham Playhouse, Liverpool Playhouse, Brighton Festival, the National Steinbeck Center, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the Avignon Theatre Festival, in addition to other theatres and festivals. He has written fourteen plays, but is best known for his adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel ''The Kite Runner'', which received five San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards: Best Original Script, Best Overall Production for a 300+ seat theatre, as well as awards for Lighting Design, Set Design, and Sound Design. His other plays include one-person shows of James Joyce’s ''Dubliners'' and ''Finnegans Wake''; ''A Paradise It Seems'', an adaptation of John Cheever’s short stories; ''Mozart!'', a musical theatre adaptation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s letters, and stage adaptations of John Steinbeck’s fiction, Ernest Hemingway’s short stories, Thomas Wolfe’s ''The Lost Boy'', Clyde Edgerton’s ''Where Trouble Sleeps'', and T.C. Boyle’s ''Tortilla Curtain,'' which received an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award and was a finalist for the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best New Play. Some of Spangler’s recent directing credits include an adaptation of T.C. Boyle’s short story “Killing Babies” for Word for Word Performing Arts Company at the Z Space in San Francisco; Martin McDonagh’s ''The Lieutenant of Inishmore'' for San José State University; Judy’s Veramendi’s ''The Empty Chalices'', a play based on the writing of Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini, which he co-directed at the Next Theatre in Evanston, Illinois; and David Mamet’s ''Glengarry Glen Ross'' for the San Jose Stage Company. From 1999 to 2005, Spangler was Artistic Director of Wordshed Productions, a not-for-profit theatre company in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, dedicated to presenting adaptations of literature, oral histories, and intercultural performances. During his time with Wordshed, the company received several year-end critics’ awards for its performances, and Spangler was a finalist for the Triangle Theatre Artist of the Year Award in 2002. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Matthew Spangler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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