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Albee’s Men is a one-man performance of excerpts from eight plays by Edward Albee, including The Zoo Story, A Delicate Balance, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Counting the Ways, The Man Who Had Three Arms, Marriage Play, Finding the Sun, and Fragments-Concerto Grosso. Culling monologues from a succession of Albee’s works spanning 35 years with the playwright’s collaboration and approval, this evening of theater provides an insightful look into the developing art of the Tony Award—and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.

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Excerpted from the works of

Edward Albee

Excerpted from the works of

Edward Albee

Edward Albee (Albee's Men) has won numerous awards, including three Pulitzer Prizes (A Delicate Balance, Seascape, and Three Tall Women) and two Tony Awards (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Delicate Balance). In 1996, he received a Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 1997 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton. At the Kennedy Center Honors Ceremony in 1996, Albee was praised for his impact on American drama: "Edward Albee burst into the American theatrical scene in the late 1950s with a variety of plays that detailed the agonies and disillusionment of that decade and the transition from the placid Eisenhower years to the turbulent 1960s. Albee's plays, with their intensity, their grappling with modern themes, and their experiments in form, startled critics and audiences alike while changing the landscape of American drama."

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Glyn O'Malley

Glyn O'Malley (director of Albee's Men) is an internationally produced playwright and director. His plays have been presented in New York, Amsterdam, Athens, and Vienna. A specialist of Edward Albee's work, Mr. O'Malley was the Literary Director of the Albee Foundation and Mr. Albee's assistant for a number of years and worked on the Broadway productions of The Lady from Dubuque, The Man Who Had Three Arms, Lolita, and the international tour of Albee Directs Albee. Most recently he directed Sand - A Trio of One Acts by Albee and premiered Albee's Men, which he adapted and directed with co-creator/actor Stephen Rowe, both at the Provincetown Repertory Theatre. Other recent productions include Having Our Say at Vienna's English Theatre (where he also directed the world premiere of Mr. Albee's Three Tall Women, as well as The Zoo Story and Counting the Ways); Three Tall Women at Portland Repertory Theatre; his own work Dog Play at the Lincoln Center Institute; Miss Julie for Theatre Antique in Antingua, Guatemala; and A Delicate Balance for The Actor's Alliance in San Diego.

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Created by

Stephen Rowe

Stephen Rowe (Tito Belcredi in Enrico IV) is a founding member of the A.R.T. company whose work includes A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, LuluMan and Superman, The Wild Duck, and his one-man show Albee's Men (which opened the 2002 season at the Berkshire Theatre Festival). His Broadway credits include The Nerd, Some Americans Abroad, Serious Money, and Spoils of War. New York Shakespeare Festival audiences have seen him in The Tempest, Macbeth, Coming of Age in Soho, A Private View, and The Normal Heart. His extensive working relationship with Edward Albee includes The Zoo Story and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at Vienna's English Theatre, the international Albee Directs Albee project, and last season's Tiny Alice Off-Broadway. Since his last A.R.T. appearance in Full Circle, he has performed in Mark Lamos's School for Scandal and in Emily Mann's Romeo and Juliet, both at the McCarter Theatre; and in Defying Gravity at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre. Mr. Rowe has performed at Yale Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle, and has received the Bay Area Theatre Critics Award for his performarnce in Berkeley Rep's Sight Unseen, and the DramaLogue Award for So Many Words at South Coast Repertory in Los Angeles. He has been seen on television in Law and Order, E.R., Cheers, Wings, L.A. Law, Beverly Hills 90210, and Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and in the films Attack of the 50 Foot Woman and Basic Instinct.

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Directed by

Glyn O'Malley

Directed by

Glyn O'Malley

Glyn O'Malley (director of Albee's Men) is an internationally produced playwright and director. His plays have been presented in New York, Amsterdam, Athens, and Vienna. A specialist of Edward Albee's work, Mr. O'Malley was the Literary Director of the Albee Foundation and Mr. Albee's assistant for a number of years and worked on the Broadway productions of The Lady from Dubuque, The Man Who Had Three Arms, Lolita, and the international tour of Albee Directs Albee. Most recently he directed Sand - A Trio of One Acts by Albee and premiered Albee's Men, which he adapted and directed with co-creator/actor Stephen Rowe, both at the Provincetown Repertory Theatre. Other recent productions include Having Our Say at Vienna's English Theatre (where he also directed the world premiere of Mr. Albee's Three Tall Women, as well as The Zoo Story and Counting the Ways); Three Tall Women at Portland Repertory Theatre; his own work Dog Play at the Lincoln Center Institute; Miss Julie for Theatre Antique in Antingua, Guatemala; and A Delicate Balance for The Actor's Alliance in San Diego.

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Lighting design by

Glyn O'Malley

Lighting design by

Glyn O'Malley

Glyn O'Malley (director of Albee's Men) is an internationally produced playwright and director. His plays have been presented in New York, Amsterdam, Athens, and Vienna. A specialist of Edward Albee's work, Mr. O'Malley was the Literary Director of the Albee Foundation and Mr. Albee's assistant for a number of years and worked on the Broadway productions of The Lady from Dubuque, The Man Who Had Three Arms, Lolita, and the international tour of Albee Directs Albee. Most recently he directed Sand - A Trio of One Acts by Albee and premiered Albee's Men, which he adapted and directed with co-creator/actor Stephen Rowe, both at the Provincetown Repertory Theatre. Other recent productions include Having Our Say at Vienna's English Theatre (where he also directed the world premiere of Mr. Albee's Three Tall Women, as well as The Zoo Story and Counting the Ways); Three Tall Women at Portland Repertory Theatre; his own work Dog Play at the Lincoln Center Institute; Miss Julie for Theatre Antique in Antingua, Guatemala; and A Delicate Balance for The Actor's Alliance in San Diego.

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performed by Stephen Rowe