Playwright and poet Gary Moore has studied and taught Lincoln for over thirty years, and has lectured and presented Lincoln-themed performance pieces on three continents. His bi-lingual musical in Shanghai, The Great Emancipator Meets The Monkey King, introduced rap-music to the People's Republic of China six months before Tiananmen Square. His play based on that experience, Burning in China, sold out at the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival after being featured in The New York Times and recommended by The New Yorker.
Since taking his master's degree from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins, Gary has taught at 13 colleges and universities, including positions in Shanghai and Istanbul. He is Dean Emeritus of Vermont College of Fine Arts and a member of the Dramatists Guild. His new collection of poems about humanity's romance with the stars, Heavenly Bodies, will come out in 2019.
