Michael Yawney is Miami-based playwright/director. The play 1,000 Homosexuals is the product of a lifetime fascination with how sex and religion intersect.

In New York, he divided his time producing shows in downtown clubs, directing avant-garde theater, editing elementary school readers, writing horoscopes for Playgirl, and working as doorman in a convent.

Yawney spent two decades producing and directing theater in New York City. His productions were presented at the Dixon Place, BMI Musical Theater Workshop, HERE, and Ensemble Studio Theater. His writing appeared in Theater Week, The Out Traveller, Propaganda, and OFF.

He served as Artistic Director of Bad Neighbors, Ltd. and was a founding member the Genesius Guild. Yawney assisted Joseph Chaikin and worked extensively with Anne Bogart. He earned a BFA from New York University and an MFA from Columbia University. He studied with Mary Overlie, Eugenio Barba, Stephen Wangh, Andre Serban, and Kristin Linklater. Currently on the faculty of Florida International University, Yawney previously taught workshops for Columbia University, 801 Projects, and The South Florida Theater League.

In South Florida, Yawney ’s production of Three Angels Dancing on a Needle was named Best Theatrical Production of 2007 by Miami New Times. The production later won an award Best Foreign Language Production from Brick Theater’s Pretentious Festival. Yawney was dramaturg for Camposition’s The BugChasers.

All the disparate strands of his career came together when the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts commissioned this play about religious faith, sexuality, and radical politics. Drawing on his experience with Playgirl, the convent, schoolbook publishing and the rest, 1,000 Homosexuals challenges the audience to imagine a world in which everything Anita Bryant believed about god, gay teachers, and sexuality is true.

1,000 HOMOSEXUALS
a tale of morality, politics and religion
based on Anita Byrant’s 1977 anti-gay crusade

a new play by Michael Yawney
produced by Camposition
commissioned by Adrienne Arsht Center of the Performing Arts

World Premier: November 20th, 2008 at 8 pm
November 20th -23rd, 2008 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts

Be 1 of 1,000 Homosexuals!

Your minimum $50 contribution will enable you to become one of official 1,000 Homosexuals and assist in the development of this important piece in GLBT history.

As one of the official 1,000 Homosexuals, you will receive the following:

• recognition as one of the 1,000 Homosexuals (unless anonymity is requested)
• priority seating for the show’s run at the Arsht Center
• invitations to special events
• membership card

NOTE: To become one of the 1,000 Homosexuals, you need not identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. Heterosexuals welcome! Camposition, Inc. welcomes everyone to advocate for GLBT rights by partnering to re-tell this important piece of history and remind us that the battle for civil rights is not over.

In the meantime, please sign up to become 1 of the 1,000 Homosexuals by downloading, filling out and faxing us this form (download PDF of form) at 305-858-5548.

Forms accompanied by checks can also be mailed to the following address:

Camposition Inc.
247 S.W. 8th St., Suite 201
Miami, FL 33130

THANK YOU!