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Christopher Ferdinand Durang (born January 2, 1949) is an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. His work was especially popular in the 1980s. is the 2nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Life
Christopher Durang was born in Montclair, New Jersey, the son of architect Francis Ferdinand Durang, Jr.[1], and grew up in Berkeley Heights. He attended Catholic schools as a child, including the Our Lady of Peace School in New Providence, New Jersey. He received a B.A. in English from Harvard and an M.F.A. in playwriting from Yale School of Drama. He lives in Bucks County with his partner, John Augustine; they have been together for 20 years.[2] Map of Montclair Township in Essex County Montclair is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. ...
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Work His work often deals critically with issues of child abuse, Roman Catholic dogma and culture, and homosexuality. Child abuse is the physical, sexual, or emotional maltreatment or neglect of children by parents, guardians, or others. ...
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His plays have been performed nationwide, including on Broadway and Off-Broadway[citation needed]. His works include Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, Beyond Therapy, Baby With the Bathwater, The Nature and Purpose of the Universe, Titanic, A History of the American Film, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Laughing Wild, 'Dentity Crisis, The Actor's Nightmare, The Vietnamization of New Jersey, Betty's Summer Vacation, Adrift in Macao, Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge, and Miss Witherspoon. The Lion King at the New Amsterdam Theatre, 2003 Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ...
Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ...
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You is a play by Christopher Durang first performed on December 14, 1979, at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City. ...
Beyond Therapy is a comedic play by Christopher Durang that had a short run on Broadway in 1982, starring John Lithgow and Dianne Wiest. ...
Baby with the Bathwater is a play by Christopher Durang about a boy named Daisy, his influences, and his eventual outcome. ...
Titanic, is a one-act play written by Christopher Durang. ...
Laughing Wild is a popular two-person show written by Christopher Durang for an actress and an actor. ...
The Vietnamization of New Jersey is a play by Christopher Durang. ...
Bettys Summer Vacation is a play by Christopher Durang Bettys Summer Vacation at christopherdurang. ...
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He has also written a number of unproduced screenplays, including The Nun Who Shot Liberty Valence, The House of Husbands (which he co-authored with Wendy Wasserstein), and The Adventures of Lola. Sample from a screenplay, showing dialogue and action descriptions. ...
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In film Durang has denounced the Robert Altman 1987 film adaptation of Beyond Therapy, calling it "horrific" and accusing Altman of totally rewriting the script "so that all psychology is thrown out the window, and the characters dash around acting crazy but with literally no behavioral logic underneath." Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. ...
Beyond Therapy is a 1987 film directed by Robert Altman, who adapted to screenplay with Christopher Durang, who also wrote the theater play. ...
Durang has performed as an actor for both stage and screen. He first came to prominence in his Off-Broadway satirical review Das Lusitania Songspiel, which he performed with friend and fellow Yale alumna Sigourney Weaver. Later he co-starred in one of his own plays as Matt in The Marriage of Bette and Boo. Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ...
Sigourney Weaver (born Susan Alexandra Weaver on October 8, 1949 in New York City) is an Oscar-nominated American actress. ...
Awards and honors He received Obie Awards for Sister Mary Ignatius, The Marriage of Bette and Boo and Betty's Summer Vacation. He received a nomination for a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for A History of the American Film. The Obie Awards, short for Off-Broadway Theater Awards, are annual awards bestowed by the newspaper The Village Voice on theater artists performing in New York City. ...
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Durang has been awarded numerous fellowships and high profile grants including a Guggenheim, a Rockefeller, the CBS Playwriting Fellowship, the Lecomte du Nouy Foundation grant, and the Kenyon Festival Theatre Playwriting Prize. Guggenheim can be a reference to any of a number of members or interests of the Meyer Guggenheim family, including: Meyer Guggenheim, or his descendants: Guggenheim family; The Guggenheim Museums; foundations such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (see also Guggenheim Fellowship), and the Harry...
He is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council, and is co-chair of the playwriting program at Juilliard. He was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 2006 for Miss Witherspoon. The Dramatists Guild of America is a professional organization for playwrights, composers, and lyricists working in the U.S. theatre market. ...
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The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ...
References - ^ Biography at FilmReference.com
- ^ Smith, Dinithia (2005-11-26). Christopher Durang Explores the Afterlife, Including His Own. New York Times. Retrieved on 2007-05-11.
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