Charles l mee jr biography

American dramatist (born )

Charles Louis Mee Jr. (born September 15, ) is an American playwright, historian and author known for his collage-like style of playwriting, which makes use of radical reconstructions of found texts. He is also a Special Lecturer of theater at Columbia University.

Early life and career

Charles L. Mee was born in Evanston, Illinois, the son of Charles Louis Mee Sr. and his wife Sarah Elizabeth (Lowe) Mee.^[1] He grew up in Barrington, Illinois, after the family moved there from Evanston. Mee contracted polio at the age of fourteen. His memoir A Nearly Normal Life () tells how that event informed the rest of his life.

After graduating from Harvard University in , Mee moved to Greenwich Village and became a part of the Off-Off-Broadway scene. Between and , his plays were presented at venues that included La MaMa E.T.C., Caffe Cino, Theatre Genesis, and the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.^{[citation needed]}

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