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director's bio - Jay Corcoran
Jay Corcoran’s first documentary, LIFE AND
DEATH ON THE A-LIST, (Critic’s Choice: New York Times, LA
Times, LA Weekly, POZ) chronicling the last year of the life of
New York actor-model, Tom McBride, was released in September 1997
by Water Bearer Films.
His critically acclaimed second documentary UNDETECTABLE focused
on the psychological and physical effects of multi-drug therapies
for six HIV+ men and women over a three-year period, has been broadcast
nationally on PBS, "Independent Lens" and nationally on
NHK in Japan, and has been screened in over 50 film festivals and
video outreach programs worldwide, including South Africa, Zimbabwe,
Namibia, Botswana, Mauritius, Brazil and many other countries. UNDETECTABLE
received the Shine Award (Los Angeles) for Best Documentary, and
Best Documentary, Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, as
well as a New York State Artists Grant Award from the NY State Council
of the Arts. It was favorably reviewed in The New York Times (Critic's
Choice), New York Magazine, Time Out New York, LA Times, LA Weekly,
Boston Globe, Philadelphia Weekly, Folha de Sao Paulo, Brasil, Atlanta
Journal-Constitution.
His short film, NEW YORK DIARY, concerned with the 2001 attacks
on the NY World Trade Center and their aftermath, was broadcast
in 2002 on New York's PBS affiliate, WNET. He has had screenings
at New York's Lincoln Center, Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum,
Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, The Kitchen, and over 50 festivals
worldwide.
As an actor he has appeared in the films All The Rage, Positive,
Birthday Time. Off-Broadway & Regional: Jerker, Caligula (Circle
Rep), King Lear, Island of Anyplace, Party. As a playwright he wrote
The Christening, produced at Circle Rep Lab and was a resident at
Millay Colony for the Arts. He is a graduate of the American Repertory
Theater’s Advanced Theater Training at Harvard.
Watch
the Video Interview with Jay Corcoran by ScribeMedia.org
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