Lance Tait

Lance Tait is a playwright, fiction writer, photographer and filmmaker. His extensive work for the stage includes theatrical adaptations of 17 short stories by Edgar Allan Poe. His one-act and full-length plays (40+ in total) have been produced or received staged readings in New York, Boston, the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University, Los Angeles, Denver, Toronto, the United Kingdom, South Africa, South Korea and Paris, France. He is also the author of popular comedy sketches published on Amazon. In 2002, he founded Theatre Metropole in Paris. He has been active as a director/writer/producer of short films on the internet, as well. His novel, Werewolf and Idol, is set in Japan, in 1952.

Among influences and likes (novelists): Dostoevsky, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hermann Hesse, Edgar Lee Masters (“Spoon River Anthology”), Herman Melville, Solzhenitsyn, Stendhal, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginia Woolf; (short story authors) Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, E.A. Poe.