Gordon Porterfield is an American playwright, novelist, poet and teacher, whose work has been produced for the stage in Baltimore, New York and London.
[2][3] The following year, Brooklyn's Chelsea Theater Center acquired the rights to Universal Nigger and produced it in their own space for New York City audiences, under the direction of Robert Kalfin.
Director Michael Makarovich subsequently staged two Gordon Porterfield one-acts at Corner: The Catcher Was A Fag and I And Silence Some Strange Race;[4][5] as well as an original teleplay entitled Tigers.
In 1972, Corner Theatre presented what many considered Porterfield's defining work for that time, a scatological romp down the Yellow Brick Road entitled whatisoneholycatholicapostalicbrownandstinksuptheuniverse.
In 1987 The Yippie Book, Porterfield's instructional work for educators, was published by Perfection Form Co.[8] Twelve years later, Porterfield came out of theatrical retirement with the critically acclaimed play Snow, which was performed at the completely reformed version of his old stomping grounds, the Fells Point Corner Theatre.