Stuart Gordon

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Career

On the Play Circle stage of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Wisconsin Union Theater in late March 1968, Gordon produced The Game Show. The play, which was ostensibly an attempt on apathy, dragged the audience into the theater and reportedly humiliated them, beat and raped them (audience plants were used). Every performance ended with the audience rioting and stopping the show.

Gordon founded Screw Theater in 1968 and produced and directed four performances, the last one being a political interpretation of Peter Pan that resulted in his detention of him and his future wife being arrested for obscenity. The tale did not make national news until it was dropped in November 1968. In a 2001 interview, Gordon referred to it as a "beast":

After the University of Wisconsin demanded that future theatrical performances by a university professor be directed by a university professor, Gordon broke his University ties to Broom Street Theatre. Its first performance, the modern interpretation of the dangerous Lysistrata, premiered in May 1969.

He and his wife Carolyn Purdy-Gordon migrated to Chicago and founded the Organic Theater Company, which Gordon also served as artistic director later this year. He produced and directed thirty-seven plays from the 1970s to the 1980s, including the world premieres of The Warp Trilogy (Warp!) David Mamet's Sexual Perplexity in Chicago and Bleacher Bums, E/R Emergency Room (which was later turned into the short-lived TV series E/R), and a two-part adaptation of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn were later turned into a comic book by First Comics. Warp's first script, co-written by Gordon, was such a hit for Organic that it briefly made it to Broadway, where it later proved to be little understood. According to Richard Christiansen, a theater critic who awaited Star Wars and gave rise to new Chicago theater companies, Warp was influential. Dennis Franz, Meshachach Taylor, and Joe Mantegna appeared in Gordon's 1973 film The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (which was turned into a film 25 years ago) starred an ensemble cast. Other Mamet and Mantegna projects were also fruitful.

Nevermore, Edgar Allan Poe's One-Man Drama, which reunited him with Re-Animator alumnus, actor Jeffrey Combs, and writer Dennis Paoli in 2009, he produced the one-man theatrical performance. The show, which was nominated for a Saturn award, had a blast at its premiere in Los Angeles and around the country. The book was written by Gordon in 2011 and he wrote it. At the Steve Allen Theater, it was sold-out houses, rave reviews, and standing ovations for six months. It was a hit at the New York Musical Theater Festival (NYMF) and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2012. Taste, Gordon's new play, premiered at the Sacred Fools Theater Company in Los Angeles in April 2014. Benjamin Brand wrote the play, based on Armin Meiwes, the Rotenburg Cannibal's true tale.

With the involvement and encouragement of Vonnegut himself, Gordon converted Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan in 1977. Gordon updated and expanded his adaptation for a work at Sacred Fools directed by Ben Rock 40 years later.

Gordon began his film career by making horror films for Empire Pictures. Re-Animator (1985) and From Beyond (1986), two of H.P.'s first two films, were both adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft stuff. In 1987, Dolls became the Imperial Dolls. His next two projects were surprisingly family friendly. Kid Safe: The Video, a short safety film for children that was released straight to video, was first up. He co-created Honey, I Shrunk the Kids for Disney Studios with Brian Yuzna and writer Ed Naha (he later produced the sequel Honey, I Blew Up the Kid). He also co-wrote Body Snatchers for Warner Brothers in 1993 and The Dentist for Trimark in 1996.

Dennis Hopper appeared in the science fiction film Space Truckers, co-wrote, and directed the 1997 space truckers. Ray Bradbury wrote The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit in 1998, and he produced and directed The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit.

In 2003, he returned to film noir and created and directed King of the Ants, based on Charlie Higson's book. This was followed by a film version of David Mamet's dark play Edmond starring William H. Macy in 2006. Stephen Rea and Mena Suvari appeared in Stephen Rea and Mena Suvari's 2007 film Stuck, which he co-wrote and directed.

In 2008, he also directed "Eater," an episode of Fear Itself for NBC.

Stuart Gordon has also contributed to Blu-ray/DVD extras for cult film distributors Grindhouse Releasing/Box Office Spectaculars on one of his favourite films, Frank and Eleanor Perry's The Swimmer starring Burt Lancaster.

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