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Series 1. Plays and screenplays

 

Blade to the Heat/The Tears Will Tell It All

Box 1, folder 1-5

Tears drafts 1987

Box 1, folder 7-8

Tears drafts 1990

Box 1, folder 9

Tears draft 1991

Box 2, folder 1

Tears draft June 1991

Box 2, folder 2-3

Tears (6 Day Wonder Draft) August 1991

Box 2, folder 4-7

Tears (6 Day Wonder Festival Draft) October 1991

Box 2, folder 8

Tears (Post Festival draft) November 1991

Box 2, folder 9

Tears (MTC draft) October 1992

Box 2, folder 10

Tears (MTC New Improved draft) January 1993

Box 3, folder 1

Tears pages

Box 3, folder 2-3

Tears pages undated

Box 3, folder 4-5

Blade drafts September 1993

Box 3, folder 6

Blade (Public version) April 1994

Box 3, folder 7

Blade pages (Workshop Public) 1994

Box 3, folder 8

Blade (Sapphire Martini draft) August 1994

Box 3, folder 9

Blade (Taper Version #1)

Box 3, folder 10

Blade (Taper Version #2)

Box 3, folder 11

Blade draft March 1995

Box 3, folder 12

Blade draft fragment 1996

Box 4, folder 1

Blade galley proof for Dramatists Play Service August 1995

Box 4, folder 2

Blade publication from Dramatists Play Service

Box 4, folder 3

Blade screenplay first draft August 1995

Box 4, folder 4

Blade screenplay first draft polish September 1995

Box 4, folder 5

Blade screenplay pages

Box 4, folder 6

Tears/Blade pages, letters, clippings

Box 4, folder 7

production, letters

Box 4, folder 8

auditions, etc.

Box 4, folder 9

letters, notes, flyers

Box 4, folder 10

Madonna correspondence 1995

Box 4, folder 11

LA letters 1996

Box 4, folder 12-13

"Blade" binder - press, letters, flyers

Box 5, folder 1

Tears Will Tell It All publication from Bill Nericcio February 1991

Box 5, folder 2

Blade - school term papers, SDSU Nericcio class 1996

Box 5, folder 3

Blade press, photos

Box 5, folder 4-5

reviews/letters 1996-1997

Box 5, folder 6

letters 1994-1995

Box 5, folder 7

student letters 1994

Box 5, folder 8

Blade papers

Box 5, folder 9

Tears pages; and handwritten draft pages of another work

Box 5, folder 10

Blade letters, reviews 1995

Box 21, folder 4

unfinished plays: Ideas & Tears 1987

 

The Chess Machine

Box 5, folder 11

The Chess Machine notes

Box 5, folder 12

The Chess Machine (five 1992 drafts)

Box 6, folder 1

The Chess Machine (two 1991 drafts)

Box 6, folder 2

The Chess Machine responses, thoughts, letters circa 1995

Box 6, folder 3

The Chess Machine draft January 1995

 

Fortune Is A Woman/Machiavelli

Box 6, folder 4

Machiavelli - planning/ideas

Box 6, folder 5

Machiavelli novel - first sections

Box 6, folder 6

Machiavelli - novel sections

Box 6, folder 7

Machiavelli novel drafts 1980

Box 6, folder 8

Machiavelli draft #9 1980

Box 6, folder 9

novel fragments

Box 7, folder 1

play - handwritten draft pages

Box 7, folder 2

play sections (Act 1 & 2) with annotations

Box 7, folder 3-5

play sections and pages

Box 7, folder 6-7

play drafts

Box 8, folder 1

Fortune Is A Woman - birthday draft 1991

Box 8, folder 2

Fortune draft May 1991

Box 8, folder 3

Fortune draft 1992

Box 8, folder 4

Fortune notes, play draft pages

Box 8, folder 5

Fortune draft pages

Box 8, folder 6-7

Research

General

Possibly related to Oliver Mayer's MFA thesis on Machiavelli
Box 8, folder 8

notes

 

Gog

Box 36, folder 1

letter from Caroline Thomas, with photos 1986

Box 36, folder 2

script

Box 36, folder 3

"Gog performance text"

Box 36, folder 4-7

drafts

Box 36, folder 8

research, notes, flyer

 

Joe Louis Blues

Box 8, folder 9

draft

Box 9, folder 1

handwritten draft circa 1986

Box 9, folder 2

draft (for OM's mother) 1987

Box 9, folder 3

draft 1987

Box 9, folder 4-5

drafts 1988

Box 9, folder 6

draft November 1990

Box 9, folder 7

draft January 1996

Box 9, folder 8

draft

Box 9, folder 9

Act I drafts

Box 9, folder 10

draft sections with corrections circa 1987

Box 10, folder 1

play fragments

Box 10, folder 2

notes

Box 10, folder 3

production materials

Box 10, volume 4-5

drafts 1986

Box 10, volume 6-7

drafts 1987

Box 10, folder 8

draft 1990

Box 10, folder 9

draft November 1990

Box 10, volume 10

undated draft

 

Joy of the Desolate/Like As the Hart

Box 11, folder 1

Act One draft April 1997

Box 11, folder 2

first pass

Box 11, folder 3

Like As the Hart draft

Box 11, folder 4

World Without End second draft; some Blade papers April 1997

 

Ragged Time

Box 11, folder 5-6

The Gray Beginning draft 1993

Box 11, folder 7-8

The Gray Beginning 2 draft July 1993

Box 11, folder 9

draft 1993

Box 12, folder 1-3

Aftershock draft January 1994

Box 12, folder 4

Heal Thyself draft November 1994

 

The Road To Los Angeles

Box 12, folder 5

Free At Last draft September 1996

Box 12, folder 6

Our Lady of Guadalupe draft December 1996

Box 12, folder 7

Performance text January 1997

Box 13, folder 1

Performance text February 1997

Box 13, folder 2

draft September 1997

Box 13, folder 3

Villa Montalvo draft October 1997

Box 13, folder 4

Dead of the Dead draft 1997

Box 13, folder 5

play fragments

Box 13, folder 6

New American playwrights festival 1997

Box 13, folder 7

flyers, clippings

Box 13, folder 8

flyers

 

So Much for Winning (Dead City)

Box 13, folder 9-11

drafts 1988

Box 14, folder 1-3

South Coast draft 1989

Box 14, folder 4

January draft 1989

General

in a folder labeled "430"
Box 14, folder 5

January draft (with note from Jack from SCR) 1989

Box 14, folder 6-7

13th Hour draft 1989

Box 14, folder 8

Ron Link draft November 1990

Box 15, folder 1

Ron Link draft

Box 15, folder 2

Duo Theatre draft December 1991

Box 15, folder 3-4

Duo/Fullerton draft January 1992

Box 15, folder 5

"La Rabia" February 1992

Box 15, folder 6

La Rabia/Dead City - Hispanic Film Project wonder draft #1 July 1993

Box 15, folder 7

So Much for Winning - Act 1 with comments

Box 15, folder 8-10

draft sections

Box 15, folder 11

notes

 

Strong as Death

Box 15, folder 12

first pass 1992

Box 16, folder 1

first pass October 1992

Box 16, folder 2

DC Artworks draft January 1993

 

Young Valiant/Food & Evil

Box 16, volume 3

"Love Crumbs" 1988

Box 16, folder 4

Food and Evil draft

Box 16, folder 5

"Food and Evil AKA Young Valiant" 1988

Box 16, folder 6-7

drafts

Box 16, folder 8

Young Valiant - SCR working draft 1989

Box 17, folder 1-4

drafts 1989

Box 17, folder 5

Shenandoah Playwrights Retreat circa 1989

Box 17, folder 6-7

drafts 1990

Box 17, folder 8

Festival draft October 1995

Box 18, folder 1

Post Festival draft November 1995

Box 18, folder 2

Young Valiant (SCR Publications) 1989

Box 18, folder 3

Young Valiant publication from Bill Nericcio 1991

Box 18, folder 4

Young Valiant for Theatre 178 (Huerta class) 1992

Box 18, folder 5

Young Valiant in Caged Eye: A Reader, for English 301 (Nericcio class) 1995

Box 18, folder 6-7

SCR Hispanics Playwrights Project 1989

Box 18, folder 8

cover ideas

Box 18, folder 9

audition notes November 1995

Box 18, folder 10

letters

Box 18, folder 11

notes (probably Young Valiant)

Box 18, folder 12

New York Festival 1995

 

Screenplays

Box 18, folder 13-14

Boxing Illustrated/Where the Music Is first draft Nov-Dec 1996

Box 19, folder 1

Boxing Illustrated/Where the Music Is first draft March 1997

Box 19, folder 2

The Crossing info

Box 19, folder 3

The Crossing info and treatments 1996-1997

Box 19, folder 4

The Crossing treatments #1 and #2 1997

Box 19, folder 5

Manifest Destiny partial script

Box 19, folder 6

Rings tv concept and scenes

Box 19, folder 7-8

Rock n Roll story and notes

Box 19, folder 9

Sevilla

Box 19, folder 10

Victims Rights treatments 1996-1997

Box 19, folder 11-12

Who's the Boss? Fight Night 1989

Box 51, folder 1

adaptation of William Saroyan's My Heart's in the Highlands

 

"Unfinished plays"

Box 21, folder 1

unfinished plays - playwriting class? 1986-1988

Box 21, folder 2-3

unfinished plays

Box 21, folder 2

unfinished plays: college material; Joe Louis Blues draft

Box 21, folder 3

unfinished plays, including Blade to the Heat and Young Valiant fragments circa 1987

Box 21, folder 5

notes (mostly non-play)

Box 51, folder 2

notes, unidentified work

 

Series 2. Other writing and projects

Box 19, folder 13-14

Poems

Box 20, folder 1

Corson-Bishop Prize poems

Box 20, folder 2

Poems - Andrews/Don Carlos Zarate

Box 20, folder 3

Poems

Box 20, folder 4

Poetry, stories, Cornell events

Box 20, folder 4

packets submitted to publications

Box 20, folder 5

Story: Belcanto

Box 20, folder 6

Story: Dreams from L.A., with letter to Anthony Quinn

Box 20, folder 7

Story: Foreigner Suite

Box 20, folder 8

Story: El Rescate

Box 20, folder 9

Story: Saudade

Box 20, folder 10

New Ground and other stories circa 1981

Box 20, folder 11

misc. short stories

Box 20, folder 12

unfinished work: Eunuch's Tale, Dreams from L.A., Foreigner Suite

Box 20, folder 12

unfinished work: The Yellow Kid

Box 20, folder 13

unfinished work: early stories circa 1979-1981

General

marked "writing 1983"
Box 20, folder 14

unfinished work: letters, poems, writing circa 1982-1984

 

unfinished work: student material, letter from Mama

General

marked "writing 1983"
Box 21, folder 6

unfinished work: Sinclair Lewis essay

Box 21, folder 7

unfinished work: miscellaneous papers

Box 37, folder 1-2

unfinished work: notes

Box 37, folder 3

unfinished work: The Yellow Kid, other notes and partial drafts

Box 37, folder 4

unfinished work: partial drafts

Box 37, folder 5

unfinished works: notes, drafts (including for Dias Y Flores)

Box 21, folder 8

letters and essays re: Boxing 1991-1992

Box 21, folder 9

Holyfield essay December 1997

Box 46, folder 10

Saudade, bound copy

Box 46, folder 11

"The Azteca" - fictitious newspaper announcing Moctezuma's death

Box 51, folder 3

self-reflections and bios

Box 51, folder 4

"St. Suplice Wanderings" poem in Rainy Day 1983

Box 51, folder 5

Playwright Composing Studio material 1998

Box 53, folder 7

Papers 90s - writing and letters

 

Series 3. Juvenilia and school material

Box 21, folder 10

childhood drawings, stories

Box 21, folder 11

elementary school essays 1970s

Box 22, folder 1

"Nippon Chronicle"

Box 22, folder 2

high school essays and undated 1978, undated

Box 22, folder 3

high school essays 1979-1980

Box 22, folder 4

high school essays and college application/loan material circa 1980-1984

Box 22, folder 5

college letters, handouts 1982-1985

Box 22, folder 6

"Poems -- Class Work -- Cornell"

Box 22, folder 7

College - poems and class work

Box 22, folder 8

College poems with comments circa 1984

Box 22, folder 9

poetry, stories, Cornell events

Box 22, folder 10

Cornell - "Iolanthe" production, ENGLISH 202 syllabus, poems, notes

Box 22, folder 11

Cornell -- El Placaso (1983 and 1986) and playbills

Box 22, folder 12

handwritten pages from high school and college

Box 22, folder 13

Oxford - "Dramatic Monolog"

Box 22, folder 14

"Oxford & Various Programs"

Box 35, folder 1

"On the Origin of the Foil" 1981-1982?

Box 35, folder 2

1984 Oxford - "Words Upon Words"

Box 35, folder 3

"Words Upon Words" handwritten script 1985

Box 35, folder 4

ENG 271

Box 35, folder 5

HISTORY 353

Box 35, folder 6

HISTORY 354

Box 35, folder 7

Shakespeare essays 1985

Box 35, folder 8

college essays

Box 35, folder 9

Columbia - Marat/Sade essay 1988

Box 35, folder 10-11

MFA thesis - "Fortune and the New Macchiavelli" 1989

Box 35, folder 12

undated early essays

Box 35, folder 13

Cornell Dramatic Club - Dragon and Martha (directed by Oliver Mayer)

Box 36, folder 9-11

drawings 1970s

Box 43

class notebooks (mostly college)

Box 43, folder 1

AP English journal and other high school-era notebook

Box 43, folder 2

journal entries - Italy trip, etc.

Box 43, folder 3

high school papers

Box 51, folder 6-8

NHHS - The Argo, no. 1-5 1982

Box 51, folder 9

NHHS - Pegasus, The Arcade 1977, 1982

Box 52, folder 1

school awards, diplomas 1975-1986

 

RESTRICTED

Box 42, folder 4

report cards 1970, 1980-1981

Box 42, folder 5-6

Cornell, Columbia

Box 42, folder 7

Receipts - Columbia and other

Box 42, folder 8

Financial aid

Box 42, folder 9

grades, etc. for medical coverage 1985

 

Series 4. Correspondence

Box 37, folder 7

letters from OM to his mother, Gloria 1982-1986

Box 38, folder 1

letters from OM to his mother, Gloria circa 1982-1986

Box 38, folder 2

family correspondence (mostly from Gloria to Oliver) 1982-1995

Box 38, folder 3

returned manuscripts (sent to mother) 1984-1985

Box 38, folder 4

high school letters, with id cards 1980-1984

Box 38, folder 5

Cornell letters - Alok Chopra, Jacquie Scoones 1983-1984

Box 38, folder 6

Cornell letters -- Katharyn Machan Aal 1983-1989

Box 38, folder 7

Cornell - letters, ids, photos, newsletters 1983-1987

Box 39, Folder 1

letters from professors/mentors - Howard Stein, Lenny Berkman, Steve Carter, Jon Stull, and others 1980s-1990s

Box 39, folder 2

letters 1991

Box 39, folder 3

Bill Nericcio

Box 39, folder 4

Genevieve Anderson 1991-1992

Box 39, folder 5

Claire Park 1991, undated

Box 39, folder 6

letters 1994-1998

Box 39, folder 7

letters related to Mark Taper Forum circa 1990-1997

Box 39, folder 8

Blade to the Heat opening night, etc. 1994-1997

Box 39, folder 9

Carlos Fuentes, Terrence McNally, etc.

Box 39, folder 10

personal letters

Box 40, folder 1-3

Oxford friends 1985-1996

Box 40, folder 4

James Guiry 1983-1994

Box 40, folder 5-7

letters 1980s-1990s

Box 40, folder 8

Leslie Jarowey 1987-1996

Box 40, folder 9

letters 1990-1995

Box 41, folder 1-7

business correspondence

Box 41, folder 8

Food & Evil (Young Valiant) optioning contract 1988

Box 41, Folder 9

Correspondence re: Oliver Mayer

Box 41, folder 10

National Hispanic Scholarship Fund application 1988

Box 41, folder 11

New York 1989

Box 41, folder 12

Oxford acceptance

Box 41, Folder 13

Out of the Fringe anthology 1997

Box 53, folder 8

Papers mid-90s - letters, clippings, flyers 1995-1996

Box 42, folder 1-3

RESTRICTED

Box 42, folder 1-3

business correspondence

Box 42, folder 10

American Honda Foundation scholarship application 1988

Box 42, folder 11-12

George C. Wolfe 1995

 

Series 5. Notebooks

Box 44

notebooks

Box 45

RESTRICTED - planners with inserted letters and other papers

 

Series 6. Clippings

Box 46, folder 1

SCR Hispanic Playwrights Project 1989

Box 46, folder 2

Blade press - Mexico

Box 46, folder 3-5

Blade to the Heat

Box 46, folder 6

Madonna articles

Box 46, folder 7

articles, collected stories and plays

Box 46, folder 8

clippings, flyers for OM's plays

Box 46, folder 9

clippings, flyers (mostly for OM's plays)

Box 47

Blade to the Heat

Box 48

Blade to the Heat

Box 49

Joe Louis Blues

Box 49, folder 1

clippings 1993-1994

Box 49, folder 2

clippings 1995

Box 50, folder 1

clippings - mostly Joe Louis Blues

Box 53, folder 9

ASK Theatre Projects Parabasis issues and letter 1994-1998

Box 53, folder 10

Count Carnette clipping and note 1981

 

Series 7. Ephemera and Memorabilia

Box 37, folder 6

miscellaneous flyers, receipts, notes, etc.

Box 44

medals (in a box)

Box 46, folder 11

notes, ephemera

Box 48, folder 1

Hamlet, with Natsuko Ohama poster

Box 50, folder 2

Cornell Savoyards productions

Box 50, folder 3

England ephemera, mostly posters

Box 50, folder 4

play ephemera

Box 52, folder 2-4

Cornell/Oxford ephemera, letters, photos

Box 52, folder 5

England/Italy

Box 52, folder 6

Columbia panel with Bill T. Jones

Box 52, folder 7

Academy Awards - Foreign Language Film summaries 1979-1991

Box 52, folder 8

"Photos 90s" (Blade?)

Box 52, folder 9

Boxing

Box 52, folder 10

"Assorted Papers" - notes, clippings, ephemera

Box 52, folder 11-12

theater ephemera, notes, letters

Box 52, folder 13

theater materials - letters, clippings, notes 1994-1995

Box 52, folder 14

Writers Workshop Weekend at CalArts 1996

Box 52, folder 15

Images (mostly boxing)

Box 53, folder 1

photos

Box 53, folder 2

Miscellaneous notes and ephemera

Box 53, folder 3

"Heartbreak Soup" by Gilbert Hernandez, excerpted from issues of LOVE AND ROCKETS by Oliver Mayer 1990

Box 53, folder 4

Others' works - "Shoot!" script by Lynn Manning, ephemera

Box 53, folder 5

Blade Spanish playbill "Navaja Caliente" 1997

Box 53, folder 6

Papers 90s - images, notes

Box 53

medals

Box 53

child's shoes

 

Series 8. Media

Box 54, folder 1

Blade to the Heat VHS

Box 54, folder 2

My Heart is in the Highlands film

 

Series 9. 2012 accession

Box 23, folder 1

The Hurt Business

Box 23, folder 2

Where the music is.

Box 23, folder 3

Laws of sympathy

Box 23, folder 4

Black madonna

Box 23, folder 5

Para mi mas bella flor. Rocio a pesar de todo. Here and now: draft cont.

Box 24, folder 1

Here and now (drafts)

Box 24, folder 2

Here and now 2010

Box 24, folder 3

Members only

Box 25, folder 1

Dark matters. (part 1)

Box 25, folder 2

Dark matters. (part 2)

Box 25, folder 3

Members only.

Box 25, folder 4

Fortune is a woman.

Box 25, folder 5

Fortune is a woman (working rehearsal script). Dirty fraud. The widowed pimp.

Box 26, folder 1

Correspondence (part 1)

Box 26, folder 2

Correspondence (part 2)

Box 26, folder 3

Play notes.

Box 26, folder 4

Various play programs.

Box 27, folder 1

Thw golden goal. The crossing. The cry.

Box 27, folder 2

Dias y Flores (part 1)

Box 27, folder 3

Dias y Flores (part 2)

Box 27, folder 4

Bold as love. joy of the desolate.

Box 28, folder 1

Hotel Congress. Enamorado.

Box 28, folder 2

The wiggle room. Fortune and the new machiavelli: master's thesis.

Box 28, folder 3

America tropical (part 1)

Box 28, folder 4

America tropical (part 2)

Box 29, folder 1

Joe Louis blues (part 1)

Box 29, folder 2

Joe Louis blues (part 2)

Box 29, folder 3

Conjunto (part 1)

Box 29, folder 4

Conjunto (part 2)

Box 30, folder 1

Blade

Box 30, folder 2

Blade to the heat. (part 1)

Box 30, folder 3

Blade to the heat. (part 2)

Box 30, folder 4

Blade to the heat. (part 3)

Box 31, folder 1

Blade to the heat as of April 5, 2010 PGS: 1-399

Box 31, folder 2

Boxing, gayness and aids. Ragged time.

Box 31, folder 3

Young valiant. The cave of salamauca.

Box 31, folder 4

Strong as death. Trampagos. The pimp who lost his ponocha.

Box 32, folder 1

The wallowa project. La radia dead city.

Box 32, folder 2

Contacts and miscellanous. Newsclips.

Box 32, folder 3

Letters of recommendation. syllabys

Box 32, folder 4

Professor evaluations and hiring file. Teaching evalutions.

Box 32, folder 5

Correspondence and travel. Media articles

Box 33, folder 1

Pictures, miscellaneous notes

Box 33, folder 2

Note pads. Miscellaneous.

Box 33, folder 3

Media: miscellaneous.

Box 33, folder 4

Programs and media for play. programs.

Box 34, folder 1

Various programs

Box 34, folder 2

Programs and pamplets for various plays.

Box 34, folder 3

Newspapers