John Patrick Shanley (born in 1950) is a playwright from the Bronx. He was educated by the Irish Christian Brothers and the Sisters of Charity. He is famous for insisting in his contract that not a single word can be changed in the screenplays that he writes. He is a graduate of New York University. A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. ... For other uses, see Bronx (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Many religious groups have the term Sisters of Charity as part of their name. ... A contract is a legally binding exchange of promises or agreement between parties that the law will enforce. ... A screenplay or script is a blueprint for producing a motion picture. ... New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in New York City. ...

For his script for the 1987 film, Moonstruck, Shanley won the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. In 2004 Shanley was inducted into the Bronx Walk of Fame. Moonstruck is a 1987 romantic comedy film directed by Norman Jewison. ... // The Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. ... The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is the collective bargaining representative, or labor union, for writers in the motion picture and television industries in the United States. ...

In 2005, John Patrick Shanley's play Doubt was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Drama Desk Award and Tony Award for Best Play. Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Doubt book cover Doubt: A Parable is a 2004 play by John Patrick Shanley (ISBN 1-55936-276-6) set in a Bronx Catholic school during the fall of 1964. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918. ... Created in 1955, the Drama Desk Award was created to recognize Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway shows in addition to Broadway shows. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ...

His personal biography states:

John Patrick Shanley is from the Bronx. He was thrown out of St. Helena 's kindergarten. He was banned from St. Anthony's hot lunch program for life. He was expelled from Cardinal Spellman High School. He was placed on academic probation by New York University and instructed to appear before a tribunal if he wished to return. When asked why he had been treated in this way by all these institutions, he burst into tears and said he had no idea. Then he went in the United States Marine Corps. He did fine. He's still doing okay.

Screenplays

• The Waltz of the Tulips (2006)
• Live From Baghdad (2002) (TV, Emmy)
• Congo (1995)
• Alive (1993)
• Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) - also directed
• The January Man (1989)
• Moonstruck (1987)
• Five Corners (1987)

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Stage plays

• Welcome to the Moon (1982)
• Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (1983)
• Savage In Limbo (1984)
• The Dreamer Examines His Pillow (1985)
• Italian American Reconciliation (1986)
• Women of Manhattan (1986)
• All For Charity (1987)
• Italian American Reconciliation (1988)
• The Big Funk (1990)
• Beggars in the House of Plenty (1991)
• What Is This Everything? (1992)
• Kissing Christine (1995)
• Missing Marisa (1995)
• Four Dogs and a Bone (1993)
• The Wild Goose (1995)
• Psychopathia Sexualis (1998)
• Where's My Money? (2001)
• Cellini (2001)
• Dirty Story (2003)
• Doubt (2004)
• Sailor's Song (2004)
• Defiance (2005)

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Musicals

• "Romantic Poetry" (2007) - cowritten with "Henry Krieger"

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External links

• John Patrick Shanley at the Internet Movie Database
• Biography at Stage Door