Michael Yawney
Michael Yawney is a Miami-based director/playwright. With Brandon Urutia, he co-created the streaming production Intimite/Internet for GableStage. Yawney wrote and directed Exile Jesus Starbucksfor Miami Light Project’s Here & Now. He also adapted and directed the Bulgarian play The Spider for Alternative Theater Festival. His play 1,000 Homosexuals premiered at the Arsht Center. He directed Rudi Goblen’s FITO at the 2019 Live Arts Bard Biennial and PET at Miami Light Project, YoungArts, and #305ONEFEST. Yawney’s production of Heather Woodbury’s 12-hour stand-up novel As the Globe Warms was seen at Austin’s Vortex Rep, L.A.’s Redcat.
He founded Florida International University’s play development program The Greenhouse. Yawney teaches playwriting and directing at Florida International University and is President of The South Florida Theatre League. He has a BFA from the Experimental Theater Wing of New York University and an MFA in Directing from Columbia University.