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With Eight Academy Award Nominations, ‘Moonlight’ Has an Array of Deep Mill Valley Ties
"He's a dear artist and we're very lucky to have had him be a part of our family here," says MTC's Jasson Minadakis says of McCraney.
Over the past three month since Moonlight screened at the 39th Mill Valley Film Festival, and certainly with it garnering eight Academy Award nominations today, film lovers across the world have learned about the powerful storytelling talents of Tarell Alvin McCraney, whose play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue serves as the basis for the film.
But long before McCraney’s work was the foundation for one of the most acclaimed films of 2016, his name was gold to the people at the Marin Theatre Company. McCraney’s acclaimed The Brother Sister Plays trilogy debuted at three Bay Area theaters in 2010, with his In the Red and Brown Water opening at MTC as part of an unprecedented three-theater collaboration with San Francisco’s Magic Theatre and American Conservatory Theatre. MTC’s production included a guerrilla-style performance in a courtyard of the residential developments in Marin City, a move that was in keeping with McCraney’s history of staging guerrilla theater in the Liberty City housing projects in Miami where he grew up.
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