Michael Burgan

by Michael Burgan
(Chicago, IL)

I’m a freelance writer with more than 200 non-fiction titles for kids. I studied playwriting for one year in the MFA program at Emerson College and have taken various workshops. I’m a former network playwright with Chicago Dramatists and a current member of the Dramatists Guild. My credits include:

Alternate selection, 1999 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival (GIGO)

Curtain Players 2005 Playwrights’ Festival, Westerville, Ohio (Mayor Mac; workshop)

Appetite Theatre 2005 Bruschetta Festival, Chicago (Bob’s Head and Toys in the Attic; full production)

Theaters Against War 2005 Freedom Follies, New York (Truth, Justice, and…; staged reading)

Around the Coyote 2006 Play Reading Series, Chicago (Last Refuge)

Self-produced solo show, April 2008, Side Studio,
Chicago (18: A Year With Footnotes; full production)

Love Among the Ravioli, full productions at 2008 Seven Plays in Seven Days, n.u.f.a.n ensemble, Chicago; 2009 From Shelterbelt With Love, Shelterbelt Theatre, Omaha; Cruthaigh Productions 2009 New Plays Festival and Competition, Santa Monica

South Camden (NJ) Theatre Company, April 2009, “And Justice For All” (Civil Obedience; full production)