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About N. G. McClernanI was born in Philadelphia, moved to South Jersey and then North Jersey. My maternal grandfather Martin Maguire was a Teamster leader in the 1940s and his cousin Iggy Wolfington was the original Marcellus Washburn in the Broadway production of THE MUSIC MAN. (Buddy Hackett played the role in the 1962 movie.) Growing up I wanted to be an illustrator and attended the University of the Arts, best known for employing the loathsome Camille Paglia. But after becoming infatuated with a beautiful young man who acted in community theatre I switched to playwriting. I never got anywhere with the guy but the playwriting is working out fairly well so far. I discovered the work of Marvin Harris some time in the 1980s and became a devotee of cultural materialism, which I think is the best explanation ever developed for the way human culture works. Politically I'm liberal and a Democrat and read the fine liberal blogs in my link list all the time. I run a theatre production company Mergatroyd Productions, and I run a non-profit theatre organization NYCPlaywrights. My daughter is studying to be a librarian, which is great - I love libraries. Other stuff I like: James Marsters, Eddie Izzard, New York City, The New Yorker, the Village Voice, Paul Krugman, Kurt Vonnegut, the Beatles, Buffy, Steely Dan, Dar Williams, They Might Be Giants, Heavenly, Mozart, Eric Satie, Carl Orff, and Shakespeare. |
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