{"id":1368,"date":"2021-11-21T10:58:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T15:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thealchemytheatre.org\/?page_id=1368"},"modified":"2022-11-18T22:58:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T03:58:19","slug":"michael-cooper","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thealchemytheatre.org\/board-and-staff\/michael-cooper\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1368\" class=\"elementor elementor-1368\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-59434a3f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"59434a3f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-wider\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-547fafd9\" data-id=\"547fafd9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5b75fe1d elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"5b75fe1d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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elementor - v3.21.0 - 25-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Artistic Director<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a16f124 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a16f124\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Michael Cooper<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6801aa94 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6801aa94\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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He directed numerous productions in Chicago and Los Angeles, with his Austin credits being the Alchemy Theatre\u2019s most recent production of <em>The Virgin Trial, Mack &amp; Mabel<\/em> (nominated for twelve B. Iden Payne Awards)<em>, Truman Capote\u2019s A Christmas Memory<\/em>, <em>The Waverly Gallery, <\/em>and Reverie\u00a0Theatre\u2019s production of<em> Outside Mullingar <\/em>presented at the Mastrogeorge Theatre. Michael has also directed the Alchemy\u2019s staged readings of <em>Peter and Alice, Domesticated, The Virgin Trial <\/em>and a new play, <em>The Sunflower Apostle<\/em>, which he also wrote. Michael is an alumnus of Lincoln Center Theatre Director\u2019s Lab West and has performed Off-Broadway as Whizzer Brown in William Finn\u2019s <em>In Trousers<\/em>. He is also the author of <em>Dorothy Parker\u2013Story Time for Grown Ups<\/em>, based upon the rebellious life and extraordinary short stories of Dorothy Parker. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.directorcooper.com\">www.directorcooper.com<\/a> \u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mcooper@thealchemytheatre.org\">mcooper@thealchemytheatre.org<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View Website Artistic Director Michael Cooper After spending over 21 years in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles as a Live Entertainment creative executive for Warner Bros., Mattel, Inc., 20th Century Fox and (consulting) at Disney, Michael has returned to directing theatre full time. He directed numerous productions in Chicago and Los Angeles, with his &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/thealchemytheatre.org\/board-and-staff\/michael-cooper\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Michael Cooper<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":52,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thealchemytheatre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thealchemytheatre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thealchemytheatre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thealchemytheatre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thealchemytheatre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/thealchemytheatre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2663,"href":"https:\/\/thealchemytheatre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1368\/revisions\/2663"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thealchemytheatre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thealchemytheatre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}