Lance Tait is an American playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and composer. Tait has written over forty full length and one act plays, including seventeen plays based on short stories of

Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe (; Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is wid ...

. He has also published two books of comedy sketches. He is also active as a filmmaker, best known for the viral YouTube hit ''Sex in Advertising.'' In 2002, Tait founded the English-language performing arts group Theatre Metropole in Paris, France.

Works for the stage

* The Babysitter (1995) * Something Special, Jesus and the Monkfish, and East Play (1997) *

David Mamet David Alan Mamet (; born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, filmmaker, and author. He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays ''Glengarry Glen Ross'' (1984) and '' Speed-the-Plow'' (1988). He first gained cri ...

Fan ClubCrossings: David Mamet's Work in Different Genres and Media; edited by Johan Callens, ; chapter 13, “In Edgewise: Examining Parodic Responses to David Mamet; by James Cherry, 2009. and Behave My Sorrow (1998) *

Miss Julie ''Miss Julie'' ( sv, Fröken Julie) is a naturalistic play written in 1888 by August Strindberg. It is set on Midsummer's Eve and the following morning, which is Midsummer and the Feast Day of St. John the Baptist. The setting is an estate of ...

, after

August Strindberg Johan August Strindberg (, ; 22 January 184914 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter.Lane (1998), 1040. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than sixty p ...

(1999) * Live Free or Die (1999) * Edwin Booth (2000) * Dmitri, Read to Me, Betsy Philadelphia, A Family Portrait, Mad Cow Disease in America, The Swimming Pools of Paris and The Glass Ceiling (2001) *

The Fall of the House of Usher "The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839 in ''Burton's Gentleman's Magazine'', then included in the collection ''Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque'' in 1840. The short story ...

, The Imp of the Perverse, Some Words with a Mummy, The Oval Portrait, and Landor's Cottage Revisited (2002) * Never Let Them See You Sweat and Conquests (2002) * Spectacles,

Hop-Frog "Hop-Frog" (originally "Hop-Frog; Or, the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs") is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The title character, a person with dwarfism taken from his homeland, becomes the jester of a kin ...

, The Man of the Crowd, The Power of Words, and The Man That Was Used Up (2003) * Synesthesia (2003) * Helen, a musical (2004) * Comedy Sketches I (2005) *

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is a short story by the American author Edgar Allan Poe about a mesmerist who puts a man in a suspended hypnotic state at the moment of death. An example of a tale of suspense and horror, it is also to a c ...

, Memories of August Bedloe, A Predicament and The Lovers (2005) * Comedy Sketches II (2006) * Neither God Nor Master (2006) * Comedy Sketches III (2007) * Comedy Sketches IV (2009) * Car Door Shave (2011) * The Black Cat (2011) * Gambling Fever (2012) * Comedy Sketches V (2013) *

The Cask of Amontillado "The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque of Amontillado" ) is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of ''Godey's Lady's Book''. The story, set in an unnamed Italian city at ca ...

and

The Purloined Letter "The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and " The Mystery of Marie Rog ...

(2013) * Comedy Sketches VI (2014)

Bibliography

* The Black Cat and Other Plays, Adapted from Stories by Edgar Allan Poe * Car Door Shave/Gambling Fever/Neither God Nor Master * Little White Book of Comedy Sketches * Little Black Book of Comedy Sketches * Synesthesia * Esoteric Plays * Something Special * The Swimming Pools of Paris * The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Plays Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe * Mad Cow Disease In America, Something Special and Other Plays * Edwin Booth: a Play in Two Acts * Miss Julie, David Mamet Fan Club and Other Plays

References

External links

Official Site

Theatre Metropole

Youtube Channel
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