Michael Quinn

Michael Quinn

Michael Quinn is a writer and director born in Philadelphia. His play GET IT TOGETHER premiered under his direction at the Zephyr Theatre in Los Angeles in July, 2022. His play THE RIVER EAST a finalist in the Epiphanies New Works Festival in Waco, TX. His play FISHTOWN was produced by Murmuration Theatre Co. at Under St Marks in New York in February, 2024. His writing has been published in Carve Magazine, Rust...
Michael Quinn is a writer and director born in Philadelphia. His play GET IT TOGETHER premiered under his direction at the Zephyr Theatre in Los Angeles in July, 2022. His play THE RIVER EAST a finalist in the Epiphanies New Works Festival in Waco, TX. His play FISHTOWN was produced by Murmuration Theatre Co. at Under St Marks in New York in February, 2024. His writing has been published in Carve Magazine, Rust + Moth and the Chiron Review. He lives in Pennsylvania.

Plays

  • Get It Together
    At a house party on a cold night in January, Mary and Harold head into a spare bedroom together. She wants to get to the bottom of him and pulls him along for a funny, brutal ride. When he returns two years later, desperate and heart-sick, the two of them have to figure out how to carry on. A hilarious, painful story of young life as it really is.

    Note: The first act of this play was workshopped...
    At a house party on a cold night in January, Mary and Harold head into a spare bedroom together. She wants to get to the bottom of him and pulls him along for a funny, brutal ride. When he returns two years later, desperate and heart-sick, the two of them have to figure out how to carry on. A hilarious, painful story of young life as it really is.

    Note: The first act of this play was workshopped and produced by the Boston College Theatre Department. It functions as a stand-alone one-act, running about an hour.
  • Fishtown
    Bobby O’Neill hasn’t been around. After he skips out on the Thanksgiving meal, his sister Lena comes over to his apartment in Fishtown, Philadelphia, to investigate. She confronts her brother about the life he’s made for himself –– and the family that was rocked by his years-long heroin addiction. A painful reconciliation for the current American moment.
  • The River East
    Following the death of her girlfriend, a Philadelphia woman seeks shelter with her cousin, an aspiring actress living in Brooklyn, but discovers an adversary and romance in the man of the house, a harsh and moneyed tech bro.
  • Janie / Basil
    In a South Philly rowhome, a middle-aged woman grapples with her former partner's murder-suicide. She swears she didn't see the warning signs. But her nephew, a strange and intrepid art museum security guard, is determined to get to the bottom of things -- even if it means tearing the family apart.
  • Emery: A Verse Play
    In a climate-dystopia America, a young woman travels across the drying, dusty continent to save her future. Emery is a woman fighting to keep moving, pitted against a nation in the midst of total collapse, decay, and hopelessness. A verse play written under the guidance of the poet Allison Adair.
  • Take It Easy
    Jules Schafer just realized she can’t go home anymore. But when she gets back to the Philly apartment she splits with a couple friends, she finds herself drifting evermore away from the hard-living ways of Carmen Uveges and the bullshit adolescence she endured.