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Oppenheimer Award
The Oppenheimer Award (also known as the Newsday George Oppenheimer Award or the Oppy) was named after the late playwright and Newsday drama critic George Oppenheimer. It was awarded annually to the best New York debut production by an American playwright for a non-musical play. The selection committee has included playwrights Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, James Lapine, and Richard Greenberg. The award carries a $5,000 cash prize. The first award of $1,000, to the play '' Getting Out'' by Marsha Norman, was made in 1979, two years after Oppenheimer's death. It was discontinued in 2007. Winners *1979 '' Getting Out'', Marsha Norman *1981 ''Crimes of the Heart'’, Beth Henley *1983 '' To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday'', Michael Brady *1985 ''The Bloodletters'' by Richard Greenberg *1988 ''Mr. Universe'' by Jim Grimsley *1989 ''The Film Society'' Jon Robin Baitz *1990 ''Tales of the Lost Formicans'', Constance Congdon *1991 '' La Bête'' by David Hirson *1992 '' Marvin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newsday
''Newsday'' is an American daily newspaper that primarily serves Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, although it is also sold throughout the New York metropolitan area. The slogan of the newspaper is "Newsday, Your Eye on LI", and formerly it was "Newsday, the Long Island Newspaper". The newspaper's headquarters is in Melville, New York, in Suffolk County. ''Newsday'' has won 19 Pulitzer Prizes and has been a finalist for 20 more. As of 2019, its weekday circulation of 250,000 was the 8th-highest in the United States, and the highest among suburban newspapers. By January 2014, ''Newsday''s total average circulation was 437,000 on weekdays, 434,000 on Saturdays and 495,000 on Sundays. As of June 2022, the paper had an average print circulation of 97,182. History Founded by Alicia Patterson and her husband, Harry Guggenheim, the publication was first produced on September 3, 1940 from Hempstead. For many years until a major redesign in the 1970s, ''Newsday'' co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hirson
David Hirson (born 1958) is an American dramatist, best known for his award-winning Broadway comedies, '' La Bête'' and ''Wrong Mountain''. Biography Hirson was born in New York City to actress Alice and playwright Roger O. Hirson. He was educated at the Rye Country Day School. He studied at Oxford and Yale University, where he received a bachelor's degree in English literature English literature is literature written in the English language from United Kingdom, its crown dependencies, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, and the countries of the former British Empire. ''The Encyclopaedia Britannica'' defines E .... Awards and nominations ; Awards * 1991 Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Playwriting Award – ''La Bête'' * 1992 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy – ''La Bête'' ; Nominations * 1991 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play – ''La Bête'' Bibliography * * References External links David Hirson official website* {{DEFAULTSORT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heddatron
''Heddatron'' is a 2006 play by Elizabeth Meriwether. The play is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's ''Hedda Gabbler''. It premiered at the HERE Arts Centre in New York City as directed by Alex Timbers and starred Carolyn Baeumler as Jane. Characters Humans: * Jane Gordon * Nugget Gordon, Jane's 10-year-old daughter and the play's narrator * Rick Gordon, Jane's husband * Cubby Gordon, Rick's brother * Henrik Ibsen * Mrs. Ibsen * August Strindberg * Else, a maid * Strindberg's Monkey * Film student * Engineer Robots: * Hans, plays Eilert Lovborg * Billy, plays George Tesman (Hedda's husband) * Brack-Bot, plays Judge Brack * Aunt Julie-Bot * Berta-Bot Plot In 2006 in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Nugget Gordon, a precocious ten-year-old girl, gives a presentation to her class about Henrik Ibsen. Her presentation is interspersed with scenes of Ibsen, his wife, their maid, and Ibsen's rival, August Strindberg. There are also scenes of Nugget's family as her father and uncle attempt to mak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Eno
Will Eno (born 1965) is an American playwright based in Brooklyn, New York. His play, ''Thom Pain (based on nothing)'' was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 2005. His play '' The Realistic Joneses'' appeared on Broadway in 2014, where it received a Drama Desk Special Award and was named Best Play on Broadway by '' USA Today'', and best American play of 2014 by '' The Guardian''. His play ''The Open House'' was presented Off-Broadway at the Signature Theatre in 2014 and won the Obie Award for Playwriting as well as other awards, and was on both ''TIME Magazine'' and ''Time Out New York '' 's Top Ten Plays of 2014. Biography Eno grew up in Billerica, Carlisle, and Westford, Massachusetts and attended Concord-Carlisle High School. He was a competitive cyclist from the age of about 13 until his early 20s. For three years he attended the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, but dropped out and moved to New York. He is married to actress Maria Dizzia. Career His pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornelius Eady
Cornelius Eady (born 1954) is an American writer focusing largely on matters of race and society. His poetry often centers on jazz and blues, family life, violence, and societal problems stemming from questions of race and class. His poetry is often praised for its simple and approachable language. Biography Cornelius Eady was born in Rochester, New York and is an author of seven volumes of poetry. In most of Eady’s poems, there is a musical quality drawn from the Blues and Jazz. Recently awarded honors include the Strousse Award from ''Prairie Schooner'', a Lila Wallace-''Reader's Digest'' Award, and individual Fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Eady has also recently collaborated with jazz composer Deirdre Murray in the production of several works of musical theater, including ''You Don't Miss Your Water, Running Man, Fangs,'' and ''Brutal Imagination''. Eady's work also ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Edson
Margaret "Maggie" Edson (born July 4, 1961) is an American playwright. She is a recipient of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play '' Wit''. She has been a public school teacher since 1992. Background and education Edson was born in Washington, D.C., the second child of Peter Edson, a newspaper columnist, and Joyce Winifred Edson, a medical social worker. Like the protagonist in '' Wit'', Edson is well acquainted with academia. A graduate of Sidwell Friends School, a Quaker-run private school in Washington, where she had been active in the drama program, Edson enrolled at Smith College in Massachusetts in 1979, earning a degree in Renaissance history in 1983. After graduation, Edson moved to Iowa City, Iowa, where her sister lived, and took a job selling hot dogs during the day and tending bar at night. She returned to her hometown of Washington, D.C., and acquired a job as unit clerk in the AIDS and cancer treatment wing of a research hospital. Subsequently, she moved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wit (play)
''Wit'' (also styled as ''W;t'') is a one-act play written by American playwright Margaret Edson, which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Edson used her work experience in a hospital as part of the inspiration for her play. Productions ''Wit'' received its world premiere at South Coast Repertory (SCR), Costa Mesa, California, in 1995. Edson had sent the play to many theatres, with SCR dramaturg Jerry Patch seeing its potential. He gave it to artistic director Martin Benson, who worked with Edson to ready the play for production. It was given a reading at NewSCRipts, and a full production was then scheduled for January 1995. Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Connecticut subsequently staged the play in November 1997, with Kathleen Chalfant in the lead role of Vivian Bearing. The play received its first New York City production Off-Broadway in September 1998, at the MCC Theater (MCC), with Chalfant reprising her role as Vivian Bearing and direction by Derek Anson Jones. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Blake Nelson
Timothy Blake Nelson (born May 11, 1964) is an American actor and playwright. Described as a "modern character actor", his roles include Delmar O'Donnell in '' O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' (2000), Gideon in '' Minority Report'' (2002), Dr. Pendanski in '' Holes'' (2003), Danny Dalton Jr. in '' Syriana'' (2005), Samuel Sterns in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Richard Schell in '' Lincoln'' (2012), the title character in '' The Ballad of Buster Scruggs'' (2018), and Henry McCarty in '' Old Henry'' (2021). He portrayed Wade Tillman / Looking Glass in the HBO limited series ''Watchmen'' (2019), for which he received a Critics' Choice Television Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2020. Nelson's directorial credits include '' Eye of God'' (1997), which was nominated for the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and an Independent Spirit Award; '' O'' (2001), a modern-day adaptation of ''Othello;'' and the Holocaust drama '' The Grey Zone'' (2001). ''Eye of Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert O'Hara
Robert O'Hara (born 1970) is an American playwright and director. He has written ''Insurrection: Holding History'' and ''Bootycandy''. ''Insurrection'' is a time traveling play exploring racial and sexual identity. ''Bootycandy'' is a series of comedic scenes primarily following the character of Sutter, a gay African American man growing from adolescence to manhood. It won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Drama. O’Hara was nominated for the 2020 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for his contribution to Slave Play. Early life and education O'Hara was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Growing up, he lived with his mother, who had him when she was seventeen, and his step-father, who moved in when O'Hara was twelve. In the third grade, he began attending Catholic school, where he found himself one of the few African-American students there. He attended Walnut Hills High School, a nationally recognized public academic magnet school in Cincinnati, where he was active in the th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Chafee
Claire Chafee is an American playwright. Her 1993 play '' Why We Have a Body'' won an Oppenheimer Award The Oppenheimer Award (also known as the Newsday George Oppenheimer Award or the Oppy) was named after the late playwright and Newsday drama critic George Oppenheimer. It was awarded annually to the best New York debut production by an American p .... References Living people 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights American women dramatists and playwrights Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women {{US-playwright-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Why We Have A Body
''Why We Have a Body'' is the first play by Claire Chafee. It premiered in 1993 at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, California, and was labeled a "lesbian play". It was then produced for Off-Broadway theatre and was staged in Canada and Australia. In 2011 it was revived at the Magic Theatre. Chafee received the George Oppenheimer Award for Best Emerging Playwright from ''Newsday''. Plot summary There are only four characters in the play. Lili, a private detective, is attracted to Renee, a straight paleontologist who is having trouble with her marriage. Lili's sister, Mary, has schizophrenia and as a result, she robs 7-Eleven stores. Mary lives with Lili briefly, until their mother, Eleanor, returns from Central America, and Lili starts an affair with Renee. While this is happening, Mary is arrested for robbery. There is a focus on how their mother's constant traveling has affected the lives of the two sisters. Background ''Why We Have a Body'' was the first play written by Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicky Silver
Nicky Silver is an American playwright. Formerly of Philadelphia, he resides in London. Many of his plays have been produced off-Broadway, and also at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. Biography Early life Silver was born in 1960 in Philadelphia and as teen, attended Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in upstate New York. He graduated from the New York University (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts.Horwitz, Simi"Face to Face : Nicky Silver Answers - "The Maiden's Prayer'"backstage.com, March 13, 1998 Career Many of his early plays were originally produced off-off-Broadway at the Vortex Theatre in New York. Later, his plays premiered at Off-Broadway venues such as the Vineyard Theatre and Playwrights Horizons. Silver noted: "My first real break came when the artistic director of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, D.C. happened to walk in and saw, 'Fat Man in Skirts.'" Several of his plays received premieres at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
