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JOE DORAN is a noted writer, musician and actor. His explorations on guitar have produced original concepts detailed in his instruction books, including The SeeDEGA Method. Joe's plays have aired via Western Public Radio, and have been performed by theatre groups across the US. His play The Specter was featured at the TheatreBC Mainstage 2005 Festival in Nanaimo, Canada. Several collections of his plays are available at www.lulu.com and www.seedega.com. Joe has worked with Pulitzer and Tony Award winning playwright/screenwriters Frank D. Gilroy (The Subject Was Roses) and David Rabe (Hurlyburly, The Firm, Streamers). He directed a production of Mr. Rabe's unpublished play Cosmologies at the Julien J. Studley Theatre in New Paltz, NY. Joe produced and directed staged readings for the 1996 and 1997 Hudson Valley Film Festivals, featuring Dennis Farina, Charles Durning, Joanna Kerns, Dan Lauria and other actors. A 1991 Vassar College Powerhouse alumnus, where he studied with Jon Robin Baitz, Joe went on to co-found two highly regarded theatre companies, High Window and Passionplace. More recently, Joe has recorded a CD of original songs This Wind Does Not Leave Anything (listen at www.soundclick.com). Joe lives in Rhinebeck, NY with his partner Amy Byrne, and their children, Strachan and Maeve. He also has two other beautiful children, Hailey Chianese (Doran) and Kane Doran.
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