Oliver Mayer is the author of fifteen plays, including Blade to the Heat, which premiered at the Public Theatre in New York City, directed by George C. Wolfe. The revised version premiered on the Mark Taper Forum mainstage directed by Ron Link, and subsequent productions have taken place in San Francisco, Chicago and Mexico City.  The play is published by Dramatists Play Service, and Madonna's production company recently purchased the film rights. Joe Louis Blues received its world premiere in San Francisco at Thick Description, and was subsequently produced in Los Angeles and Atlanta. Conjunto premiered at Teatro Vision in San Jose; it was developed at the Sundance Lab, San Jose Rep, and the Mark Taper Forum New Work Festival.  Ragged Time received its world premiere at the Black Dahlia Theatre in Los Angeles in October 2002, and was previously presented at the Royal Court Theatre, London, and the Taper New Work Festival; it is anthologized in the Out of the Fringe (TCG 2000). Joy of the Desolate premiered at the Apple Tree in Chicago, and will be produced this fall at Cal Arts. Other plays include The Road to Los Angeles, Young Valiant, Bold as Love, and Laws of Sympathy. Oliver is a graduate of Cornell and Columbia Universities, and attended Worcester College, Oxford.  His literary archive can be accessed through Stanford University Libraries.

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