Clay McLeod Chapman is the author of The Remaking, nothing
untoward, miss corpus and rest area, as well
as The Tribe middlegrade series: Homeroom
Headhunters, Camp Cannibal and Academic Assassins.
Upcoming projects include Whisper Down the Lane, a new
psychological horror novel from Quirk Books (April 2021), and
ORIGINS, an original 6-issue limited miniseries from BOOM! Studios
(November 2020).
Chapman’s story late bloomer was adapted into a short
film, directed by Craig William Macneill. An official selection at
the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, the short won Best Short at the
Lake Placid Film Festival and the Brown Jenkins Award at the 12th
Annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. Their second
short, Henley, based on the chapter “The Henley Road Motel”
from Chapman’s novel miss corpus, was an official selection at
the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. It won Best Short at the 2011 Gen
Art Film Festival and the 2011 Carmel Arts and Film
Festival. The Boy (SXSW 2015), a feature-length
adaptation of Henley, co-written with director Macneill,
was produced by SpectreVision (Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah, and Josh
C. Waller) in 2015.
In comics, Chapman is the writer of the ongoing Marvel
series Scream: Curse of Carnage. He has written Absolute
Carnage: Separation Anxiety, Iron Fist: Phantom Limb, Typhoid
Fever, as well as for Edge of
Spider-Verse and Venomverse, The Avengers, Amazing
Spider-Man, Ultimate Spider-Man, American Vampire,
and Scream: King In Black, among others.
He is the creator of Self Storage (451 Media)
and Lazaretto (BOOM! Studios).
Chapman is the creator of the rigorous storytelling session The
Pumpkin Pie Show. In the twenty years of its existence, it has
performed internationally at the Romanian Theatre Festival of
Sibiu, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, New York International Fringe
Festival, Winnipeg Fringe Festival, Edmonton Fringe Festival,
Minnesota Fringe Festival, Dublin-based thisisnotashop art space,
IGNITE Festival, Women Center Stage Festival and Impact Theatre
Festival.
Chapman wrote the book for Hostage Song (music & lyrics
by Kyle Jarrow). He is the author of such plays
as commencement, the cardiac shadow and volume of
smoke. His story-monologues birdfeeder,
undertow and the wet echo have been featured in The
Best American Short Plays anthologies.
Chapman was educated at the North Carolina School of the Arts for
Drama, the Burren College of Art, and Sarah Lawrence College. He
currently teaches writing at The Actors Studio MFA Program at Pace
University.
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