CREATING THE ONE-PERSON PLAY

Come learn practical techniques for solo play development from inception to performance. From character development and story structure through performance and production, this workshop will give you new tangible tools for your creative process. 

Michael Milligan (Instructor) is a performer who has been writing and acting for the theater for almost two decades. Milligan has appeared on the Broadway stage as Little Charles in August: Osage County, De Bries in La Bete, and as a ‘raver’ and understudy on Jerusalem. No stranger to the one man show, Milligan performed Will Eno’s title role of Thom Pain in the original New York run taking over from James Urbaniak and T. Ryder Smith at the DR2. Other New York credits include The Golem with Robert Prosky, the world premiere of The Empty Ocean with Harold Clurman Theater Lab, and Nightlands with New Georges.

He also received 4 Stars for his performance of Lanford Wilson’s one man show, Poster of the Cosmos at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival — a performance that also earned him ‘Best Actor’ nods in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio. Milligan’s other produced plays include Heroine, Urgent: Aliens, and a musical adaptation of Aesop’s Fables for Circle in the Square with composer/rocker Joziah Longo of Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams.