Thomas Dulack (born 1936,
Whiting,
Indiana
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), known as Tom Dulack, is an American award-winning playwright, novelist, director, and English professor.
His works include ''Incommunicado'', ''Breaking Legs'',
and ''Solomon’s Child''.
Novels and plays
His first professional play, ''Solomon's Child'', was held over at the
Long Wharf Theatre
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in New Haven, Connecticut, before transferring to Broadway. It was then transferred to a French-language production and a television adaptation in Brussels, Belgium. His drama ''Incommunicado'', about
Ezra Pound
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, won the Kennedy Center Award for New American Plays.
''Breaking Legs''
had its world premiere with
Jack O'Brien directing at the
Old Globe Theatre
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in San Diego in 1989. It was nominated as best new play by the San Diego Critics Circle. It ran for 447 performances at the Promenade Theatre in New York in 1990-91.
References
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1936 births
American male novelists
Writers from Indiana
Living people
20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
People from Whiting, Indiana