How to Care for Your Pet Tarantula

by Michael Marceline
Directed by Michael Chamberlin
Cast: Elizabeth Cromwell, Sanford Wilson

MICHAEL MARCELINE is the author of two full length plays. The first, Cowboys, received a workshop at the Berkshire Fringe Fest (Great Barrington, MA) and won the Denis Johnston Playwriting Prize from Smith College. The Second Laughing All Along had an independently produced workshop production at The Directors Studio (New York, NY). His short play Come to Mommy premiered in End Times Productions’ 2010 Vignettes for the Apocalypse Festival at the Red Room Theater (New York, NY). Michael is also a member of Packawallop Productions’ The Pack. He earned his BA in theater from UMASS Amherst.

Michael Chamberlin (Director, How to Care for Your Pet Tarantula): As
Director: Happy-ish, Fordham University @ Lincoln Center; Fully Committed,
Millbrook Playhouse; Candide (adapted by TJ Edwards), Fist in the Pocket –
Emerging Artists Residency @ The Field, Washing Machine (Drama Desk &
Hewes American Theater Wing Nomination for Outstanding Lighting Design,
Innovative Theater Award Nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance) Fist in
the Pocket Theater @ The Chocolate Factory, Sanford Meisner & Manbites Dog
Theater; Chekhov’s Mistress, Theatre Brut @ NJ Rep.; Porcelain (Helen Hayes
Nomination- Outstanding Director), Tsunami Theatre Company; Bat Boy: The
Musical (3 Helen Hayes Noms.), A Clockwork Orange, Love’s Fire, Kit Marlowe,
The Studio Theatre 2ndStage; Class Action, Imagination Stage, The Glory of
Living, Didactic Theatre Company. Assistant Director: The Grand Manner,
Lincoln Center Theater; Of Mice and Men, Westport Country Playhouse;
Carnival!, Mister Roberts, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Kennedy Center; Indian
Blood, Primary Stages; The Matchmaker, Ford’s Theatre; Glamour, New Works
Festival/ Mark Taper Forum; Fences, Round House Theatre; Privates on Parade,
The Studio Theatre. Member: SDC, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab,
Directors Lab West. Artistic Director: Fist in the Pocket Theater. Websites:
michaelchamberlin.net & fistinthepocket.org

MICHAEL CHAMBERLIN (Director, How to Care for Your Pet Tarantula): As Director: Happy-ish, Fordham University @ Lincoln Center; Fully Committed, Millbrook Playhouse; Candide (adapted by TJ Edwards), Fist in the Pocket – Emerging Artists Residency @ The Field, Washing Machine (Drama Desk & Hewes American Theater Wing Nomination for Outstanding Lighting Design, Innovative Theater Award Nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance) Fist in the Pocket Theater @ The Chocolate Factory, Sanford Meisner & Manbites Dog Theater; Chekhov’s Mistress, Theatre Brut @ NJ Rep.; Porcelain (Helen Hayes Nomination- Outstanding Director), Tsunami Theatre Company; Bat Boy: The Musical (3 Helen Hayes Noms.), A Clockwork Orange, Love’s Fire, Kit Marlowe, The Studio Theatre 2ndStage; Class Action, Imagination Stage, The Glory of Living, Didactic Theatre Company. Assistant Director: The Grand Manner, Lincoln Center Theater; Of Mice and Men, Westport Country Playhouse; Carnival!, Mister Roberts, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Kennedy Center; Indian Blood, Primary Stages; The Matchmaker, Ford’s Theatre; Glamour, New Works Festival/ Mark Taper Forum; Fences, Round House Theatre; Privates on Parade, The Studio Theatre. Member: SDC, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, Directors Lab West. Artistic Director: Fist in the Pocket Theater. Websites: michaelchamberlin.net & fistinthepocket.org