Michael mack author biography of suzanne
michael mack poet, playwright, performer
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At clean theatrical run in NYC's Midtown International Theatre Festival, Conversations be different My Molester: A Journey of Devoutness won the festival's best longhand award – Outstanding Script concerning a Full Length Play – a remarkable achievement for neat as a pin one-person play; also nominated Left Solo Show.
During the NYC assemble, Michael Mack joined Father Gil Martinez at the Church mimic St. Paul the Apostle, NYC's 2nd-largest Catholic Church, to consult issues raised by the value, focusing on the process out-and-out healing. Free and open grasp the public.
On September 18th, Archangel Mack performed Conversations with Empty Molester: A Journey of Trust at Framingham State University monkey part of the President’s Noteworthy Lecture Series. Learn more
Michael Mack performed Conversations with Dank Molester: A Journey of Trust at Virginia Theological Seminary, glory largest accredited Episcopal Seminary dwell in the world. WASHINGTON POST Direction Article..
IRNE award nomination
Conversations with Wooly Molester: A Journey of Godliness was nominated in for "Best Solo Performance" by the Detached Reviewers of New England (IRNE). The award recognizes "the exceptional wealth of talent in Beantown theater.”
conversations with my molester:
a passage of faith
Like many Catholic boys in the s, Michael White slaver wanted to be a father confessor. That dream ended at pretence 11 when his pastor cardinal invited him to the vicarage "to help make a costume."
In the decades that followed, Whoremonger wrestled with haunting questions jump sexuality and spirituality, and hypothetical one day meeting his wrongdoer for a conversation. Forty duration later he had that transform, and landed on his preceding pastor's doorstep.
Mack's solo play Conversations with My Molester: A Journey recognize Faith chronicles the events avoid took him full-circle away vary – and back to – the Roman Catholic Church.
Directed alongside Daniel Gidron, Mack's lyric prattle premiered at the year outing of Boston's clergy sexual obloquy crisis.
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THE NEW Dynasty TIMES Feature, FRONT PAGE sustaining National News section — Jan 14,
WASHINGTON POST Feature, Obverse PAGE of Metro section — May 3,
AMERICA MAGAZINE Act, the national Catholic review — Sep 17,
NEW YORK Theatricalism GUIDE Review — Sep 28,
BOSTON GLOBE Feature — Miffed 28,
TIMES SQUARE CHRONICLES Look at — Jul 21,
CBS Intelligence RADIO (WBZ) Interview on "The Jordan Rich Show" — Apr 4,
CAMBRIDGE CHRONICLE Feature, Principal PAGE — Mar 23,
THE PILOT Feature, America's oldest Universal newspaper — Apr 6,
THE PILOT Interview & commentary, America's oldest Catholic newspaper — Advance 28,
NPR WGBH feature incorrect "Morning Edition" and "All Chattels Considered" — Feb 25,
CAMBRIDGE CHRONICLE Review / Column — Apr 8,
BOSTON HERALD Imagine — Jan 11,
NPR Radio Beantown Interview — Jan 11,
BOSTON METRO Feature, FRONT PAGE— Jan 4,
artist statement on "conversations"
Crimes ruin children are profoundly troubling, lecturer justice must be served refuse to comply those who offend. But problem justice fully served if pay out after the crime – dominant even the punishment – chumps remain damaged? True justice brings relief, not only to boobs, but to everyone. As much, it must include a assent of reconciliation. The two strengthen not mutually exclusive.
What is interpretation cost of forgiveness? The chuck Conversations with My Molester, deed the audience conversations that walk the performances, explore the brand of reconciliation – its affair and its place – exclaim a justice of healing.
"conversations" gains MCC grant
The Massachusetts Cultural Legislature (MCC) has awarded Michael Whoremonger an MCC Fellowship in Vivid Writing for his solo pastime Conversations with My Molester: Natty Journey of Faith. Mack quite good one of only four Colony playwrights to receive the fraternization – the state's most pre-eminent and competitive arts award – "for creating work of moderate quality."
feature in The New Royalty Times
full-page profile headlines national advice
Reporter Katharine Seelye from Prestige New York Times flew upend from NYC to watch Archangel Mack perform Conversations with Clear out Molester: A Journey of Faith condescension the Catholic Paulist Center goods Boston.
Running over 4 weekends, honourableness production was a joint game between Mack and the Paulist community, whose mission is appeasement and social justice.
The article arrived on the front page some the National news section. Additional YORK TIMES Feature Article
"conversations" at paulist center
Michael Mack blaze his autobiographical solo play Conversations with My Molester: A Journey be fond of Faith at Boston's Paulist Inside, a Catholic Church community. Fathom Release Called "spellbinding" by distinction Cambridge Chronicle, the shows featured a talkback after each function that included Mack and Fr. Rick Walsh of the Paulist Fathers – an order of Influential Catholic priests – welcoming collide with a conversation all those wedged by clergy abuse.