Gurira was Tony
nominated as a playwright for her play Eclipsed.
Not exact matches
Haute face: Joan Crawford's Oscar -
nominated turn
as a spurned heiress -
playwright offers a new gold standard for 50s melodrama
Also
nominated were Julie Harris, recreating her stage role
as the young girl in The Member of the Wedding; Bette Davis, again playing a fading actress in The Star; Joan Crawford with her final nomination
as a
playwright in Sudden Fear; and Susan Hayward in the biopic of World War II entertainer Jane Froman, With a Song in My Heart.
You may recognize Jesse Eisenberg
as an Academy Award -
nominated actor from films such
as The Social Network, but he is also an established
playwright and author who has been featured in publications including the New Yorker and McSweeney's.