Charles A. Duncombe

Charles Duncombe is the author of the City Garage texts Atrocities (2000), Cinema Stories (2002), Oedipustext/LA (2003) and Patriot Act: A Reality Show (2004). He also wrote the company’s adaptations of Heiner Müller: Medeatext; Los Angeles/Despoiled Shore (2000); Frederick of Prussia/George W’s Dream of Sleep (2001); The Mission, Accomplished (2008), and Hamlet-machine The Arab Spring (2015). His English-language versions (with Frédérique Michel) of Moliere’s The Bourgeois Gentleman and The School For Wives premiered in 2008 and 2009 at City Garage. Patriot Act won the 2004 Fratti-Newman Award for Political Playwriting. All four of his Müller adaptations were nominated for the LA Weekly’s “Best Adaptation” award, as was The Trojan Women: LA/Darfur Dreamscape in 2010. His plays Caged (2013), Othello/Desdemona (2016), and Phoebe Zeitgeist Returns to Earth (2016) also had their premieres at City Garage. He lives in Los Angeles.