March 2009

John Guare

Sunday, March 01, 2009

John Guare has won the Obie, Tony, London's Olivier Award, NY Drama Critics Circle Award for such plays as The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation (for which he wrote the screenplay), Two Gentlemen of Verona and his Oscar-nominated screenplay for Louis Malle's Atlantic City. Among his plays are Landscape of the Body, Bosoms and Neglect, A Few Stout Individuals and the Lydie Breeze Trilogy. He received the 2003 PEN/Laura Pels Master Playright Award; the 2004 Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the 2005 Obie for sustained excellence. He's a member of the Dramatists Guild and teaches playwriting at the Yale School of Drama.