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Mac Wellman papers

Title: Mac Wellman papers, 1959-1999.
Author: Wellman, Mac.
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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 2	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1999-027 Box 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 3	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1999-027 Box 3	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 4	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1999-027 Box 4	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 5	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1999-027 Box 5	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 6	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1999-027 Box 6	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 7	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1999-027 Box 7	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 8	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1999-027 Box 8	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 9	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1999-027 Box 9	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 10	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1999-027 Box 10	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 11	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1999-027 Box 11	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 12	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1999-027 Box 12	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 13	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1999-027 Box 13	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 14	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1999-027 Box 14	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 15	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1999-027 Box 15	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 16	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1999-027 Box 16	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 17	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1999-027 Box 17	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 18	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1999-027 Box 18	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 19	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1999-027 Box 19	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 20	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1999-027 Box 20	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 21	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1999-027 Box 21	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Description

33 linear feet (68 boxes)

Summary

The Mac Wellman papers span his high school career, 1959-1963, to the year of donation, 1999.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Diaries.
Notebooks.
Photographs.
Poetry.
Rough drafts.
Scripts (documents).

Access (note)

Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Source (note)

Mac Wellman

Biography (note)

Mac Wellman, playwright and poet, is perhaps best known for his plays TERMINAL HIP, BAD PENNY, CROWBAR, and SINCERITY FOREVER.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

Finding aid available in repository and on Internet.

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Cataloged

Call Number

*T-Mss 1999-027

OCLC

NYPT03-A8

Author

Wellman, Mac.

Title

Mac Wellman papers, 1959-1999.

Restricted Access

Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Biography

Mac Wellman, playwright and poet, is perhaps best known for his plays TERMINAL HIP, BAD PENNY, CROWBAR, and SINCERITY FOREVER. Wellman was born John McDowell Wellman on March 7, 1945 in Cleveland, Ohio. An innovator of language, he focused on poetry until a chance meeting with Dutch theatrical director/producer Annemarie Prins. The two collaborated on a number of radio plays and, in 1975, directed their first stage production, FAMA COMBINATORIA, at Theatre de Brakke Grand in Amsterdam. Wellman continued to experiment in poetry and theater, merging the two to create his own style. In 1977, he published his first collection of poetry, In praise of secrecy. In 1979 his first New York City theatrical production, Starluster, was produced. In the early 1980s, Wellman began writing officially under his nickname, Mac. He gained national exposure as a "downtown" playwright in New York City. In 1990, Wellman received his first Obie in a three-way tie with himself for Best American play for TERMINAL HIP, BAD PENNY, and CROWBAR. In 1991 he received a Best Playwrighting Obie for SINCERITY FOREVER. He received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1990 and 1995 and a Guggenheim fellowship in 1990. Throughout the 1990s, Wellman's scripts were produced nationally and internationally and he taught at such institutions as New Dramatists, Yale, and Brooklyn College.

In 1997, Wellman was honored with a six-month festival of his work, the Mac Wellman Festival, which featured thirty of his plays staged in four cities. Wellman received his third Obie in 2003, this time for Lifetime Achievement.

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Added Author

Gerritsen, Yolanda.

Lavin, Stuart R., 1945-

Malanga, Gerard.

Wellman, Mac. Bad penny.

Wellman, Mac. Crowbar.

Wellman, Mac. Sincerity forever.

Wellman, Mac. Terminal hip.

Wellman, Nancy Roesch.

Research Call Number

*T-Mss 1999-027

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