Martin Moran at the San Francisco Public Library

Martin Moran (born December 29, 1959) is an American actor and writer who grew up in

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, Colorado. He attended Stanford University and is best known for his autobiographical solo show about his childhood molestation called ''

The Tricky Part ''The Tricky Part: One Boy's Fall from Trespass into Grace'' is a 2005 non-fiction book by Martin Moran. Between the age of 12 and 15, Martin Moran had a sexual relationship with Bob Doyle, a Vietnam veteran who was a counselor at a Catholic bo ...

'', for which he won an Obie Award and received two

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nominations. In 1999, Moran gave his final

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performance as radioman

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in a musical called ''

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'', but thanks to Manhattan Concert Productions, he returned to it in 2014. In 2005, Moran adapted ''The Tricky Part'' into a memoir that was published by Beacon Press. In 2013 Moran debuted a second solo show ''All the Rage'' in

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, where he currently lives; in 2016, ''All the Rage'' was adapted into a memoir by Moran and was published in May by Beacon Press.

Bibliography

Memoirs *''The Tricky Part: A Boy's Story of Sexual Trespass, a Man's Journey to Forgiveness'',

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, (hardcover, 2005);

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, (paperback, 2006);

, (paperback, 2016) *''All the Rage: A Quest'',

, (hardcover, 2016) Plays *''All the Rage'',

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, (2013) *''The Tricky Part'',

, (2005)

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