Harry Kondoleon was a gay United States, American playwright and novelist. He was born on February 26, 1955. He died of AIDS' companion infections in New York City on March 16, 1994, aged 39.''New York Times'', 07 April 1994
Retrieved 18 May 2012 He graduated from Hamilton College (New York), Hamilton College and the Yale School of Drama. He was awarded the Fulbright Program, Fulbright, National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller and Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim fellowships.

Works

Plays

*The Brides - 1980 *The Côte d'Azur Triangle - 1980 *Rococo - 1981 *Self-Torture and Strenuous Exercise - 1982 *Andrea Rescued - 1982 *Clara Toil - 1982 *The Fairy Garden - 1982 *Christmas on Mars - 1983 *Slacks and Tops - 1983 *Linda Her - 1984 *The Vampires - 1984 *Anteroom - 1985 *Play Yourself - 1988 *The Poet's Corner - 1988 *Zero Positive - 1988 *Love Diatribe - 1990 *The Houseguests - 1993 *Saved or Destroyed - 1994

Novels

*The Whore of Tiampuan - 1991 *Diary of a Lost Boy - 1994

Poetry

*Rudy on Ruby and Nadine (Wedge pamphlet) *The Death of Understanding: Love Poems - 1987

Awards

*1982-1983 Obie Award for "most promising young playwright" (Shared with Tina Howe (for "distinguished playwriting"), and David Mamet (for Edmond (play), Edmond)) *1984-1985 Obie Award to Elizabeth Wilson for her role in Kondoleon's "Anteroom" *1992-1993 Obie Award for "The Houseguests" *2000-2001 Obie Award to Craig Lucas for directing "Saved or Destroyed"

References

Playwright's Page on Dooleee.com
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930163821/http://www.aegis.com/news/ads/1994/AD940487.html Obituary]

External links

Article about "The Fairy Garden" and Kondoleon's work
*[http://lortel.org/Archives/CreditableEntity/8776 Harry Kondoleon] at Internet Off-Broadway Database
Harry Kondoleon Papers
at Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University
Article on Harry Kondoleon's poetry and translations of four of his poems in Greek for online literary magazine ΑΣΣΟΔΥΟ by Natasha Remoundou (Athens, 2023)
1955 births 1994 deaths David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University alumni Hamilton College (New York) alumni Obie Award recipients American male dramatists and playwrights American male novelists American gay writers American LGBT dramatists and playwrights American LGBT novelists 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American novelists Gay dramatists and playwrights Gay novelists AIDS-related deaths in New York (state) 20th-century American LGBT people {{US-playwright-stub