OYL is excited to be working with Clay Chapman on a new work Teaser Cow - an adaptation of the ancient Greek myth of The Minotaur.

Clay McLeod Chapman is the creator of the rigorous storytelling session the Pumpkin Pie Show. In its ten years of existence, the award-winning Pumpkin Pie Show has toured extensively throughout the world—traveling to the Romanian Theatre Festival of Sibiu, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the New York International Fringe Festival, the Winnipeg Fringe Festival, the Edmonton Fringe Festival, the Minnesota Fringe Festival, IGNITE 06 Festival, Women Center Stage festival, and the Impact Theatre Festival, just to name a few. In New York, the Pumpkin Pie Show has  been presented at PS 122, the DR2 theatre, the Ohio Theatre, La Mama, the Red Room, the Kraine theatre, St. Marks Theatre, the CSV Cultural Center , the Zipper theatre, the Belt theatre, the Culture Project, Galapagos Art Space, Speigeltent NY , the Bowery Poetry Club, the Brick Theatre, and others.

The Village Voice’s Alexis Soloski wrote, “If Chapman keeps up with the oddball characters, well-crafted stories, and critical plaudits, that Faulkner guy better watch out.”

Chapman is also the author of rest area, a collection of short stories, and miss corpus, a novel—both published by Hyperion books. He was a contributing author to One Ring Zero's “As Smart As We Are” album, featuring such writers as Paul Auster, Rick Moody, A.M. Homes, Margaret Atwood. Director Craig Macneill’s film version of Chapman’s “late bloomer” was an official selection at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival; it also won the audience award for best short at the Lake Placid Film Festival and the Brown Jenkins Award at the 12th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival.

Chapman’s other plays include bar flies, lee’s miserables, No Exitway, duct-tape to family-time, drinking games, redbird, jewish mothers, junta high, nested doll, the interstate and on, the cardiac shadow, and volume of smoke. A stage version of his short story “bird feeder” was selected for publication in The Best American Short Plays: 2007-2008 anthology. He wrote the book for Hostage Song, a new indie-rock musical with Obie-award winning musician Kyle Jarrow and is currently working on the book for a new musical with Grammy award winner Bruce Hornsby, directed by Tony winner Kathleen Marshal, titled SCKBSTD.

Chapman sits on the advisory board for the James River Writers, a nonprofit organization whose signature event is the annual James River Writers Festival held in Richmond, Virginia and teaches fiction writing, playwriting, and performance at high schools, colleges, and institutions around the country and around the world.