Clay McLeod Chapman

Clay McLeod Chapman is the creator of the Pumpkin Pie Show, a rigorous storytelling session backed by its own live soundtrack. In its ten years of existence, the Pumpkin Pie Show has traveled to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival ('98), the New York International Fringe Festival ('97, '99. '01), the Romanian Theatre Festival of Sibiu ('97, '01), as well as performed at such various venues as colleges, theatres, and theme parks in and around the country. The Pumpkin Pie Show continues to perform within New York City—including PS 122, the Red Room, the Kraine, St. Marks Theatre, the CSV, the Zipper, the Belt, the Culture Project, and Coney Island, USA, just to name a few.

Chapman is the author of rest area, a collection of short stories, and miss corpus, a novel—both published by Hyperion books. miss corpus was recognized in part of The New Yorker's "Reading Glasses" series in 2003. His short story "late bloomer" was recently made into a film by director Craig Macneill, winning the audience award for best short at the Lake Placid Film Festival—as well as an official selection at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Most recently, "late bloomer" was the recipient of the Brown Jenkins Award at the 12th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival.

He is the author of such plays as No Exitway (New Voices for the Theater), duct-tape to family-time (Yellow House theatre), redbird (The Culture Project), jewish mothers (The Culture Project), and volume of smoke (Firehouse Theatre). Chapman was a contributing author to One Ring Zero's "As Smart As We Are" album, featuring Paul Auster, Rick Moody, AM Homes, Margaret Atwood, and others. He contributed an introduction to the catalogue for Pierre Huyghe's "Streamside Day Follies" installation project, exhibited at the Dia:Chelsea gallery, to be published by JRP Ringier in Spring 2006.

Currently, he is an artist-in-residence at the Galapagos Art Space in New York. Upcoming productions include "friendly fire" produced by Studio 42, and the Spring performance of the Pumpkin Pie Show: junta high at the PS 122.

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