Monday, March 30, 2009

Casey Wimpee



Casey Wimpee RESUME (www.newyorkisdead.net)

Casey Wimpee is a short fiction writer , playwright, freelance arts critic for Hex education journal, and new media writer living with his wife in Brooklyn, Ny. His short plays included The Search Party (Texas State University showcase), Bloody Elephants (Working Man's Clothes), The Map is Not the Territory (Gene Frankel Theater, NY), What The Hell (Center Stage, NY), Hot Damn (the 2nd Annual NYC Binge Festival), More Songs from the Neofascists...(The Tank, NYC), Kansas City Book of the Dead (Ohio Theatre), Bring Me The Head of John Ford (The Brick, Brooklyn), Take Out Chinese (Wings Theater,NY) and Arms & The Octopus (Ohio / Galapagos, NY) for which he was nominated for a New York Innovative Theatre award. His short play, The Queen is Dead was made into a short film by Everybody Row Films and was selected as Samuel French nomination for it's publication competition in 2008.

 

writer, producer, co-founder of Aztec Economy

(www.newyorkisdead.net)

459 Keap Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211

williamtellact@yahoo.com

(347)-526-9142

 

2009                            

July-                       Pontiac Firebird Variations                                                                                writer

(upcoming)           Directed by Matthew Hancock

                                w/ Aztec Economy

                                The Underground Zero Festival, P.S. 122

June-                     Exit, Pursued by Bears                                                                       writer

(upcoming)           Directed by Julie Rossman

                                w/ Aztec Economy

                                The Anti-Depressant Festival, The Brick Theater

May-                       Antigone With The Wind                                                                    writer

(upcoming)           Directed by Cole Wimpee

                                w/ Aztec Economy

                                Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NY

March-                   Fragments: Comics and Drawings by Tim Sinaguglia (art review)           writer

                                Published by Hex Education Journal

February-              Elegant Youth (short story)                                                                                writer

                                Published by Hex Education Journal

 

2008              

December-           Amphibians                                                                                          writer

                                Directed by Jeremy Torres

                                w/ The Search Party

                                Dream. One Festival, Austin, TX

November-           marfa Lights                                                                                         writer; lighting design

                                Directed by Julie Rossman

                                w/ Aztec Economy

                                Brooklyn, NY

August-                 The 3rd Annual NYC Binge Festival                                                                 co-producer

                                ‘The Binge Olympiad’ at Wings Theatre

                                w/ Working Man’s Clothes Productions                                         

                -               Take Out Chinese                                                                                               writer                                     

\                               Directed by Stephen Brackett

                                w/ Working Man’s Clothes Productions

                                Wings Theatre, West Village

July-                       The Queen is Dead (play)* (nominated for Sam French Publication)      writer     

                                Directed by Matthew Hancock                         

                                w/ Working Man’s Clothes Productions         

                                The Sam French OOB Festival, Peter Jay Sharp Theatre

June-                     The Queen is Dead (film)                                                                   writer

                                Adapted & Directed by Karl Newman

                                w/ Everybody Row Films

                                Brooklyn, NY

May-                       Bring Me the Head of John Ford                                                      writer

                                Directed by Cole Wimpee

                                w/ Aztec Economy

                                The Film Festival: A Theatre Festival, The Brick Theater

April-                      Kansas City Book of the Dead                                                          writer

                                Directed by Matthew Hancock

                                w/ Working Man’s Clothes Productions

                                The New York is Dead Festival, The Ohio Theatre

March-                   More Songs From the Neo-Fascist Nursery Players’ Troupe                     writer/director

                                Directed by Casey Wimpee

                                w/ Aztec Economy                 

                                The Bushwick Starr (subsequently @ Collective Unconscious, Tribeca)

2007

 December-          What The Hell                                                                                      writer                     

                                Directed by Jeffrey Schulman

                                w/ Evil Eye Productions

                                Centre Stage, NYC

October-                               Constellation Golf                                                                                                writer

                                Directed by Michelle Bossy

                                w/ Working Man’s Clothes Productions

                                The Dewey’s Nightmare Playwright Challenge, Gene Frankel Theatre

September-          The 2nd Annual NYC Binge Festival                                                 co-producer

                                at Jimmy’s No. 43 Cabaret, East Village

                                w/ Working Man’s Clothes Productions                                         

                   -            Hot Damn                                                                                             writer

                                Directed by Gia Forakis

                                w/ Working Man’s Clothes Productions

                                Jimmy’s No. 43 Cabaret

April-                      Arms and the Octopus* (nominated best short script NYIT Awards)         writer

                                Directed by Isaac Byrne

                                w/ Working Man’s Clothes Productions

                                fuckplays, The Ohio Theatre (subsequently @ Galapagos Art Space)

2006      

September-          Bloody Elephants                                                                                                writer

                                Directed by David Carr-Berry

                                w/ Working Man’s Clothes Productions, Jimmy’s No. 43

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