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Doug Wright is an award-winning American playwright, librettist, and screenplay writer. A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or Drama. A libretto is the text used in an extended Musical work such as an Opera, Operetta, Masque, sacred or secular Oratorio and See also Pre-production Screenwriting A screenplay or script is a written plan authored by a Screenwriter, for a Film or Television

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Life

Wright has a bachelor's degree from Yale College. Yale College was the official name of Yale University from 1718 to 1887 He was a member of the Class of 1985 and Wolf's Head. He earned his M.F.A. from New York University. In the United States, a Master of Fine Arts ( MFA) is a Graduate degree typically requiring two to three years of study beyond the Bachelor's degree New York University ( NYU) is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational Research University in New York City. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and serves on the board of New York Theatre Workshop. The Dramatists Guild of America is a professional organization for Playwrights Composers and Lyricists working in the U New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW is an Off-Broadway Theatre noted for its acclaimed and innovative productions of new works He is a recipient of the William L. Bradley Fellowship at Yale University, the Charles MacArthur Fellowship at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, an HBO Fellowship in playwriting and the Alfred Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. Charles Gordon MacArthur ( November 5 1895, Scranton Pennsylvania – April 21 1956, New York City) was an American Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey.

Wright lives in New York City with his partner, singer/songwriter David Clement. David Clement is an alternative-rock musician who is based in New York City.

Work

Wright’s play Quills premiered at Washington, DC's Woolly Mammoth Theatre in 1995 and subsequently debuted Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City. New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW is an Off-Broadway Theatre noted for its acclaimed and innovative productions of new works The play recounts the imagined final days in the life of the Marquis de Sade. Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Marquis de Sade ( June 2, 1740 – December 2, 1814) ( was a French aristocrat Quills garnered the 1995 Kesselring Prize for Best New American Play from the National Arts Club and, for Wright, a 1995 Village Voice Obie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting. The National Arts Club is a private club founded in 1898 to "stimulate foster and promote public interest in the arts and to educate the American people in the fine arts" This article is about a New York newspaper For the Ottawa Hills Ohio magazine see The Village Voice of Ottawa Hills. The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards bestowed by The Village Voice newspaper to Off-Broadway Theater In 2000, Wright wrote the screenplay for the film version of Quills which starred Geoffrey Rush. This article discusses the 2000 English Film. For the 2004 Japanese film Quill, please visit Geoffrey Roy Rush (born 6 July 1951 is a Golden Globe - BAFTA - Emmy - AFI - and Academy Award -winning Australian actor

Wright’s I Am My Own Wife was produced Off-Broadway by Playwrights Horizons in 2003. I Am My Own Wife is a play by Doug Wright based on his conversations with German Transvestite, Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. Playwrights Horizons is a Not-for-profit Off-Broadway theater located in New York City dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American It transferred to Broadway where it won the Tony Award for Best Play, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live American Theatre and are presented The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918 From 1918 to 2006 the Drama Prize was unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes during these years the The subject of this one-person play, which starred Jefferson Mays, is the German transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. Jefferson Mays (born 8 June 1965) is an American award-winning Theatre and Film actor Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. This article deals with the history of the word 'transvestite' Charlotte von Mahlsdorf ( March 18, 1928 - April 30, 2002) was the founder of the Gründerzeit Museum (a museum of every-day items

In 2006, Wright wrote the book for Grey Gardens, starring Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson. Musical theatre is a form of Theatre combining Music, Songs spoken Dialogue and Dance. Grey Gardens is a musical with book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel, and lyrics by Michael Korie, based on the 1975 documentary of Christine Ebersole (born 21 February 1953) is an American actress and singer Mary Louise Wilson (born November 12, 1932) is an American stage film and television actress The musical is based on the Maysles brothers’ 1975 film documentary of the same title about Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale (“Big Edie”) and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale (“Little Edie”), Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s aunt and cousin. Musical theatre is a form of Theatre combining Music, Songs spoken Dialogue and Dance. Albert and David Maysles were a documentary filmmaking team whose works include Salesman, Gimme Shelter and Grey Gardens Grey Gardens is a 1975 Documentary film by the direction / Cinematography / editing team of Albert and Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale ( October 5, 1895 — February 5, 1977) aunt of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, made world headlines Edith Bouvier Beale ( November 7, 1917 &ndash ca January 9, 2002) was an American Socialite.

As of 2007, he adapted the Disney's film The Little Mermaid for Broadway. The Little Mermaid is a 1989 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation with a pencil test beginning on September 23, 1988 and

Some of his earlier plays include “Interrogating the Nude,” “Watbanaland,” “The Stonewater Rapture” (about the sexual awakening of two Texas teenagers), “Dinosaurs,” and a musical, “Buzzsaw Berkeley” (with songs by Michael John LaChiusa). Michael John LaChiusa' (born July 24, 1962) is a Tony Award -nominated American Musical theatre composer lyricist and

For television, Wright worked on four pilots for producer Norman Lear and teleplays for Hallmark Entertainment and HBO. Norman Milton Lear (born July 27 1922 in New Haven Connecticut) is an American Television writer and producer who produced such popular A teleplay is a drama which is Telecast using many of the same constraints as a theater piece (limited Scenery, cast Special effects) RHI Entertainment is an American producer of Television movies and Miniseries, founded in the 1980s by Robert Halmi Jr

In film, Wright’s credits include screenplays for Fine Line Features, Fox Searchlight, and Dreamworks SKG. Fine Line Features was the speciality films division of New Line Cinema. Fox Searchlight Pictures is the specialty film division of 20th Century Fox, established in 1994 DreamWorks LLC, also known as DreamWorks Pictures, DreamWorks SKG, or DreamWorks Studios, is a major American Film studio

Works on stage

Works on film

Quotes

“No human appetite is too base, no idea so holy, no institution so revered that it should be spared art's scrutiny. The Little Mermaid (Den lille havfrue is a Fairy tale by the Danish Poet and Author Hans Christian Andersen about a young Grey Gardens is a 1975 Documentary film by the direction / Cinematography / editing team of Albert and I Am My Own Wife is a play by Doug Wright based on his conversations with German Transvestite, Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. This article discusses the 2000 English Film. For the 2004 Japanese film Quill, please visit This article discusses the 2000 English Film. For the 2004 Japanese film Quill, please visit ”

“Being a playwright and being a novelist have precious little in common. In truth, playwrights are a lot like cookbook authors. I feel closer to Betty Crocker than I do Don Delillo or Joyce Carol Oates. What are plays, after all, but recipes for three-dimensional events? They're not written to be read; they're written to be realized. . . ”

“We write in hopes of discovering that the nightmares that taunt us are shared ones. ”

Awards and honors

External links

Toleranzpreis - KulturPreis Europa 2006 Hommage Dr. Claude Janniak, President Swiss national council

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