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Marcus Gardley is a poet-playwright who is the recipient of the 2014 Glickman Award. On the feature side, Marcus has written the new version of The Color Purple for Warner Brothers and recently has finished writing Marvin Gaye which Allen Hughes will direct. He is currently a consulting producer on Boots Riley’s series I'm a Virgo at Amazon with Media Res. In addition, Marcus is developing Hyperion Cantos with HBO, GK Films, and Joint Effort. Previously, Marcus was a Producer on The Chi for Fox 21 and staffed on Tales of the City at Netflix. Marcus was the 2013 James Baldwin Fellow and the 2011 PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award winner for American Mid-Career Playwright. The New Yorker describes Gardley as the “heir to Garcia Lorca, Pirandello, and Tennessee Williams.” His play The House That Will Not Stand was commissioned and produced by Berkeley Rep and had subsequent productions at Yale Rep and the Tricycle Theatre in London. It was a finalist for the 2015 Kennedy Prize. He is an ensemble member playwright at Victory Gardens Theater where his play The Gospel of Loving Kindness was produced and won the 2014 BTAA award for Best Play/Playwright. In 2014, his saga The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry, about the migration of Black Seminoles (a tribe of African American and First Nations People) from Florida to Oklahoma, had a national tour. He has over two dozen productions, some of which include: Every Tongue Confess at Arena Stage (starring Phylicia Rashad and directed by Kenny Leon) and On the Levee which premiered in 2010 at Lincoln Center. He is the recipient of the 2011 Aetna New Voices Fellowship at Hartford Stage, the Helen Merrill Award, a Kesselring Honor and the Gerbode Emerging Playwright Award. He holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale Drama School and is a member of The Dramatists Guild.
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