AMERICA AT WAR

Mr. Doyle is a playwright and director from Brookyn. In the last two years, he has fulfilled his “promise as one of the smart new playwrights on the New York theatre scene” (NYTheatre).His works as a playwright include: Compression of a Casualty (Golden Thread, San Francisco, CA / Mosaic Theatre Group, San Jose, CA / The Gallery Players, Brooklyn, NY); Styrofoam (The Trilogy Theatre, New York, NY); and W.M.D. (just the low points) (BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange, NY) and Fox(y) Friends (HERE Arts Center, NYC). In addition to the publication of The Position in the annual New York anthology Plays and Playwrights 2006, an excerpt from The Position has been selected for The Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2005 (Smith & Kraus). He is the author of three other plays: The Amputated Years, ATM and Not From Canada. In 2003, Doyle directed the first American performance of 11 september 2001 by the acclaimed French dramatist Michel Vinaver. In January 2006, he delivered a lecture at The Public Theater on the 2005 Act French theatre festival; the text will be published in Entre’Actes. An alumnus of the Drama Studies program at Purchase College (SUNY), he teaches at Long Island University in Brooklyn.