<style>@font-face { font-family: "Times"; }@font-face { font-family: "Palatino"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }a:link, span.MsoHyperlink { color: blue; text-decoration: underline; }a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { color: purple; text-decoration: underline; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matthew Maguire is a co-artistic director of Creation Production Company—with which he has produced over fifty new works—and the Director of Fordham University’s Theatre Program.<span style=""> </span>He is an alumnus of New Dramatists.<span style=""> </span>His plays include <i style="">Phaedra</i>, and <i style="">Abandon</i>, and the creation with Philip Glass and Molissa Fenley of <i style="">A Descent Into the Maelström</i> for Australia's Adelaide Festival, among many others.<span style=""> </span>His most recently published book (NoPassport Press, 2009) is <i style="">Matthew Maguire: Three Plays</i>, which includes <i style="">The Tower</i>, <i style="">Luscious Music</i>, and <i style="">The Desert</i>.<span style=""> </span>His awards include an OBIE for Acting and an OBIE for Directing.<span style=""> </span>More background can be viewed at <a href="http://www.creationproduction.org/">www.creationproduction.org</a></span></p>