Sentences with phrase «winning playwright»

When Andre the Giant was a boy he had already grown so large that riding the school bus was uncomfortable; his father's friend, none other than Nobel prize winning playwright Samuel Beckett, chauffeured him back and forth in his pickup truck every day.

The city is also known for hosting the stage musical Texas, which was written by Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright Paul Green.

Can an Oscar - winning playwright and a former Eastenders actor succeed where placard - waving lawyers have failed, in drawing to the public's attention the devastating impact of the legal aid cuts?

Eve Ensler is a Tony Award - winning playwright, performer, and activist, and author of «The Vagina Monologues,» which has been translated into more than 48 languages and performed in more than 140 countries.

Rosalyn Drexler at Garth Greenan, Art Basel, Survey Acclaimed novelist, Obie - winning playwright, former professional wrestler and pioneering Pop artist Rosalyn Drexler clearly doesn't need our accolades, but she's going to get them anyway.

Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright Suzan - Lori Parks is adapting the classic and Johnson is attached as the film's director.

When I first met Marsha Norman — Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright Marsha Norman, that is — I was delighted to find her not only accessible but also to be a playful person with a fabulous sense of humor.

Beech's superbly crafted and appointed paintings, drawings, and sculptures have been described by Edward Albee, the Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright and Beech's collaborator for the 2007 book Obscure / Reveal, as «pure beauty.»

The suite of four etchings comes with a letter - pressed colophon written by Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar.

Obie Award - winning playwright / director / actor Ain Gordon shared an elegy to his childhood babysitter in a reading from his work Radicals in Miniature.

+ Pulitzer prize - winning playwright, Edward Albee, best known for writing Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Past recipients include Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Oscar Hijuelos, multiple Obie - winning playwright María Irene Fornés, visual artists José Bedia and Teresita Fernández, photographers Andrés Serrano and María Martínez Cañas, the late Felix Gonzalez - Torres, whose work represented the United States at the 52nd Venice Biennale and Guillermo Calzadilla, who together with Jennifer Allora represented the United States at the 54th Venice Biennale, architect and city planner Andres Duany, installation artist Teresita Fernandez, writer Cristina Garcia, sculptor Maria Elena Gonzalez, and composers Julián Orbón, Tania León and Orlando García.

Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart perform in the National Theatre's cinema broadcast of Nobel Prize - winning playwright Harold Pinter's classic work.

The Alliance celebrates finalists of the Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition with a lineup of readings featuring plays from this year's finalists plus the opportunity to hear from this year's winning playwright, Alix Sobler.

Tony Award - winning playwright David Henry Hwang («M. Butterfly,» «Yellow Face») will be the master of ceremonies.

In the 1960s, she became a novelist and an Obie Award - winning playwright.

Acclaimed novelist, Obie - winning playwright, former professional wrestler and pioneering Pop artist Rosalyn Drexler clearly doesn't need our accolades, but she's going to get them anyway.

As part of the Armory's Artist Talk Series, the production on Friday, December 8 will be preceded by a separately ticketed conversation between Ariane Mnouchkine, Pulitzer prize - winning playwright Tony Kushner, and The New Yorker editor, David Remnick.

Previous winners of the Meadows Prize were Grammy - winning contemporary music ensemble eighth blackbird and New York - based public arts organization Creative Time (2010); playwright and performer Will Power and choreographer Shen Wei, artistic director of New York - based Shen Wei Dance Arts (2011); Tony - winning playwright and screenwriter Enda Walsh and choreographer Michael Keegan - Dolan, artistic director of Dublin - based Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre (2012); violist Nadia Sirota and socio - political artist Tania Bruguera (2013); and choreographer and founder of Urban Bush Women Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (2014).

In 2004, she worked with choreographer Joachim Schloemer, composer Olga Neuwirth, and Nobel - prize winning playwright and novelist Elfriede Jenilek on David Lynch's opera based on his film Lost Highway.

NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Eisa Davis — an acclaimed actress you might recognize as Heather Dunbar's Chief of Staff, Cynthia Driscoll, on House of Cards — is also an award - winning playwright and a formidable singer and songwriter.

The son of the Nobel Prize - winning playwright Luigi Pirandello, Fausto Pirandello was advised by his father to find other ways to express himself than through literature.

Rosalyn Drexler (born 25 November, 1926) is an American artist, novelist, Obie Award - winning playwright, and Emmy Award - winning screenwriter, and former professional wrestler.

President Bill Clinton leads a group of distinguished commentators, including Tony Kushner, award - winning playwright and author of the screenplay for the Academy Award - winning Lincoln; Harold Holzer, one of the nation's leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln; Edna Greene Medford, Chair of the History department at Howard University; the prolific novelist Jerome Charyn, author of I am Abraham; and historian Earl Lewis, President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Along the way Kat was an award - winning playwright and artist in residence at Workhouse, Looking Glass and Avalon Repertory theatres in NYC and most recently wrote and directed a night of shorts at Guild Hall.

Featuring her much loved songs, TINA - The Tina Turner Musical is written by Olivier Award - winning playwright Katori Hall and directed by the internationally acclaimed Phyllida Lloyd.

Others choosing this path include Jackie Collins, JK Rowling (Pottermore), Ian Fleming's Estate (the James Bond 007 series), Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright / author David Mamet, and Eric Van Lustbader (author of the Jason Bourne series).

«Though I've read countless novels, I had never read one like this... told in a chorus of completely unexpected voices, as befits the first novel from a Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright and screenwriter» - Washington Post.

Ifa Bayeza is an award - winning playwright, producer, and conceptual theater artist.

- Beth Henley, Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright «Jill is going to break your heart, but along the way make you glad you went with her.

A friend of mine is an award - winning playwright.

This amusing yet educational assembly script has been written by an experienced primary school Head of English who is, away from the classroom, also an award - winning playwright.

Imagine a school coming together to study history, languages, food technology and literacy through the dramatic Victorian tale of the first celebrity chef Alexis Soyer by award ‑ winning playwright James Graham.

Director Michael Mayer, working from a script by Tony - winning playwright Stephen Karam (The Humans), tries hard — sometimes too hard — to avoid the stultifying trap of filmed theater.

Last year, Banks hired Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright David Auburn to pen the screenplay, but a new report indicates that Banks — who is also producing — has signed a new duo of writers to take a run at it.

When Tony Award - winning playwright / composer / performer Stew first came to the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab in 2004, the script for Passing Strange was just a stack of coffee - stained pages he had brought in his backpack.

Few men can play middle - aged white - male anger with more gusto than the Pulitzer - winning playwright and actor, but never mind the rage; 2017 was the year we saw the range.

By the time August Wilson passed away in 2005, the Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright had completed a profound body of work that has left an... Read More

Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright, Oscar - nominated actor and celebrated author whose plays chronicled the explosive fault lines of family and masculinity in the American

The «compelling» may have been there to begin with; Pulitzer - winning playwright and two - time Oscar - nominated screenwriter Mamet, who wrote and directed «Redbelt,» has proven he's an excellent storyteller.

The book was adapted for the screen by award - winning playwright Conor McPherson.

The screenplay credited to Pulitzer - Prize - winning playwright David Lindsay - Abaire follows the broad strokes of the novel's plot without nurturing enough lively idiosyncrasy to make the story come alive, which ironically is what Inkheart is all about.

Rather than the reams of dialogue you would normally expect, this streamlined version scripted by Tony Award - winning playwright Stephen Karam (The Humans) delivers sensuality in spades.

Everyone kind of assumed that this award was a shoo - in for Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright Tony Kushner, but it seems to me its narrow vision and belabored structure is the thing most responsible for the film's stuffy boredom.

Adapted by Tony Award ® - winning playwright Stephen Karam and directed by Tony Award ® - winning director Michael Mayer, this exquisite adaptation of Anton Chekhov's classic The Seagull finds a group of friends and family gathered for a seemingly jovial weekend in the countryside.

Broadway director Michael Mayer directed the adaptation from a script by Tony - winning playwright Stephen Karam.

«Nothing about Greta seemed inexperienced for a first - time director,» Tracy Letts, the Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright and actor who plays Lady Bird's tenderhearted father, told V.F. «The work she's done in front of the camera and as a writer has really prepared her for this moment.

The Tony - nominated, Olivier Award - winning playwright has single - handedly taken Tarantino's visceral, blood - and - guts filmmaking style and transported it to live theater, exploding the possibilities of the stage like a lightning bolt.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble member and Pulitzer Prize — winning playwright Tracy Letts has a new offering at the esteemed Chicago theater.

The divisive, gleefully offensive shocker reunites director William Friedkin with his Bug collaborator, Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright Tracy Letts, for a scuzzy neo-noir about a debauched, impoverished trailer - park family that hires dirty cop McConaughey to kill someone for an insurance payday, and ends up getting in way over their heads.