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Edward Albee

Edward Albee, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1961
Born March 12, 1928 (1928-03-12) (age 80)
Washington D.C.
Occupation Dramatist
Nationality American
Writing period 1958 - present
Notable work(s) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Zoo Story; The American Dream
Notable award(s) Pulitzer (3); Tony Award (Lifetime Achievement); National Medal of Arts
Influences
Influenced

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Biography

According to Magill's Survey of American Literature (2007), Edward Albee was born somewhere in Virginia (contrary to the popular belief that he was born in Washington D.C.). The Commonwealth of Virginia ( is an American state Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D He was adopted two weeks later and taken to Westchester County, New York. Adoption is the act of legally placing a child with a Parent or parents other than those to whom they were born Westchester County is a primarily Suburban county located in the U Albee's adoptive father, Reed A. Albee — himself the son of vaudeville magnate Edward Franklin Albee II — owned several theaters, where young Edward first gained familiarity with the theatre as a child. Reed A Albee (April 1886 &ndash August 2, 1961) was a theatre owner Vaudeville was a Genre of variety entertainment prevalent on the stage in the United States and Canada, from the early 1880s Edward Franklin Albee II ( October 8, 1857 &ndash March 11, 1930) was a Vaudeville impresario and the adoptive grandfather of His adoptive mother was Reed's third wife, Frances.

Albee attended the Rye Country Day School in New York, then the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, where he was expelled. For the RCDS that stands for the Royal College of Defence Studies, please click here. The Lawrenceville School is a Coeducational independent preparatory Boarding school for grades 9-12 located on in the historic community of Lawrenceville He then was sent to Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1945 at the age of 17. Valley Forge Military Academy & College is a Boarding school for men grades seven through twelve and a Coeducational two-year Junior college. Wayne is an unincorporated community and a US Post Office located on the Main Line, centered in Delaware County, Pennsylvania He next enrolled in the graduate studies program at Choate prep school in Connecticut, graduating in 1946. His formal education continued at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he was expelled in 1947 for skipping classes and refusing to attend compulsory chapel. Trinity College is a private liberal arts college in Hartford Connecticut.

Albee left home for good when he was in his late teens, later saying in an interview, "They weren't very good at being parents, and I wasn't very good at being a son. " He told interviewer Charlie Rose that he was "thrown out" because his parents wanted him to become a "corporate thug", and didn't approve of his aspirations to become a writer. Charlie Rose (born Charles Peete Rose Jr, on January 5, 1942) is an American TV interviewer and journalist [1]

The less than diligent student later dedicated much of his time to promoting American university theatre, frequently speaking at campuses and serving as a distinguished professor at the University of Houston from 1989 to 2003. The University of Houston (often referred to as " U of H," " UH," or " Houston " is a public doctoral/research

A member of the Dramatists Guild Council, Albee has received three Pulitzer Prizes for drama — for A Delicate Balance (1967), Seascape (1975), Three Tall Women (1994); a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement (2005); the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1980); as well as the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts (both in 1996). The Dramatists Guild of America is a professional organization for Playwrights Composers and Lyricists working in the U The Pulitzer Prize, ˈpʊlɨtsɚ PULL-it-sər is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in Newspaper journalism, 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 A Delicate Balance is a play by Edward Albee first produced on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on September 12, 1966 Seascape is a play by American Playwright Edward Albee. Directed by Albee himself the production opened on Broadway on Three Tall Women is a play by Edward Albee, which won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Albee's third 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 American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 250-member organization whose goal is to "foster assist and sustain excellence" in American Literature, The Kennedy Center Honors is an annual honor given to artists in the performing arts The National Medal of Arts is an award and title created by the Congress of the United States in 1984 for the purpose of honoring artists and patrons of the arts

Albee is the President of the Edward F. Albee Foundation, Inc., which maintains the William Flanagan Creative Persons Center, a writers and artists colony in Montauk, New York. The Edward F Albee Foundation was started by its namesake playwright Edward Albee, in 1967, after revenue from his play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Montauk is a hamlet (and Census-designated place) in Suffolk County, New York on the South Shore of Long Island. Albee's longtime partner, Jonathan Thomas, a sculptor, died on May 2, 2005, the result of a two year-long battle with bladder cancer. Bladder cancer refers to any of several types of malignant growths of the Urinary bladder.

In 2008, in celebration of his eightieth birthday, numerous Albee plays are being mounted in distinguished Off Broadway venues, including the historic Cherry Lane Theatre, where the playwright himself is directing two of his one-acts, The American Dream and The Sandbox, which were produced at the theater in 1961 and 1962, respectively. Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City. Cherry Lane Theatre, located at 38 Commerce Street in the Borough of Manhattan, is New York City 's oldest continuously running Off-Broadway

Plays

Non Dramatic Writings

Quotes

Discography

References

  1. ^ Albee interview on The Charlie Rose Show, May 27, 2008
  2. ^ Edward Albee Interview - page 6 / 6 - Academy of Achievement
  3. ^ Edward Albee - Me, Myself & I - Peter and Jerry - Theater - New York Times

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