"David Mamet David Alan Mamet (; born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, film director, screenwriter and author. He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays ""Glengarry Glen Ross"" (1984) and ""Speed-the-Plow"" (1988). He first gained critical acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway plays in 1976: ""The Duck Variations,"" ""Sexual Perversity in Chicago,"" and ""American Buffalo."" His plays ""Race"" and ""The Penitent"", respectively, opened on Broadway in 2009 and previewed off-Broadway in 2017. Feature films that Mamet both wrote and directed include ""House of Games"" (1987), ""Homicide"" (1991), ""The Spanish Prisoner"" (1997), ""Heist"" (2001), and"
"from his previous relationship with Isabelle Adjani. Rebecca Miller Rebecca Augusta Miller, Lady Day-Lewis (born September 15, 1962) is an American independent filmmaker and novelist, known for her films ""Angela"", """", ""The Ballad of Jack and Rose"", ""The Private Lives of Pippa Lee"", and ""Maggie's Plan"", all of which she wrote and directed. Miller is the daughter of Arthur Miller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, and his third wife Inge Morath, Magnum photographer. Miller was born in Roxbury, Connecticut, to Arthur Miller, a notable playwright, and Austrian-born Inge Morath, a photographer. Her younger brother, Daniel, was born in 1966. Her father"
"as a novelist and playwright when the first book of his popular ""Wind On Fire"" trilogy won the Blue Peter best book award and the Smarties Gold Award for best children's book. He has written several novels and fantasy books. He married author Virginia Nicholson (née Bell) in 1988. He has twice been nominated for Tony Awards for best play, for ""Shadowlands"" and ""The Retreat from Moscow"". He also turned ""Shadowlands"", based on the relationship between C. S. Lewis and Joy Gresham, into a BBC-TV play in 1985, and an acclaimed film in 1993. The latter starred Anthony Hopkins and"
"Award for Best Novel of the Year, 1981; Before My Life Began: Edward Lewis Wallant Memorial Prize for Best Novel of the Year, 1985), and non-fiction (Imagining Robert: New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Transforming Madness: National Alliance on Mental Illness, “Ken” Award). He is the only writer to have won six consecutive P.E.N. Syndicated Fiction Awards. His screenplay for The Hollow Boy (American Playhouse, PBS, 1991, was chosen best screenplay of the year by the Los Angeles Times and at the Houston Film Festival. He has been married three times, and has three children (Miriam, born 1970;"
"currently lives in New York City with his wife Lisa (whom he married in 1990), and children Anna and Jake. Billy Aronson Billy Aronson is an American playwright and writer best known for coming up with the original concept of the rock opera ""Rent"", which was based on Puccini's opera ""La bohème"". He attended Lower Merion High School and Princeton University. In 1988, as a playwright he wanted to create ""a musical based on Puccini's ""La Bohème"", in which the luscious splendor of Puccini's world would be replaced with the coarseness and noise of modern New York."" Although in 1989"
"Scarlet Pimpernel"" (1997) and ""Camille Claudel"" (2003), as well as additional lyrics for ""Rudolf"" (2006). She was nominated for the 1998 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"". She is also the author of the plays ""Bad Dreams"" and ""Man With Two Hearts Found on Moon"". She is married to producer and lawyer John Breglio. Nan Knighton Nan Knighton is an American poet, playwright and lyricist. Knighton is the daughter of physician Dr. Donald Proctor and artist Janice Proctor. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, she is a 1965 graduate of Bryn Mawr School, with an"
"children by his first marriage, and is now married to Susan Vogel, an art historian and film-maker. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the Russell Sage Foundation. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship and a Lifetime Career Award from the American Political Science Association. He also has received honorary degrees from Southern Methodist University and from Carnegie Mellon University and . He has also published 100 articles and"
"Gilles Chiasson Gilles Chiasson (born November 1, 1966) is an American producer, director, composer, writer and actor. While he first came to prominence as an actor, particularly in the original cast of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning RENT, Chiasson now focuses on film and television development. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife Sherri Parker Lee and their two sons. Chiasson was born in Muskegon, Michigan. His parents are Dr. Tony Chiasson, a retired anesthesiologist, and Claire Chiasson, the founder and headmistress of Michigan Dunes Montessori. Both are French Canadian. He is the youngest of"
"(1957), ""The Nun's Story"" (1959), and ""The Sand Pebbles"" (1966). He also authored many television scripts, including the TV play ""The Last Act Is a Solo"" (1991), and the novels ""After"" (1973) and ""Getting Up and Going Home"" (1978). He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1981. Anderson was married to Phyllis Stohl from 1940 until her death in 1956 and to actress Teresa Wright from 1959 until their divorce in 1978. Anderson died of pneumonia on February 9, 2009 at his home in Manhattan, aged 91. He had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease for seven"
"Willa is a professional photographer and Zosia is an actress. Mamet has been married to actress and singer-songwriter Rebecca Pidgeon since 1991. They have two children, Clara and Noah. Mamet is a Reform Jew and strongly pro-Israel. The papers of David Mamet were sold to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin in 2007 and first opened for research in 2009. The growing collection consists mainly of manuscripts and related production materials for most of his plays, films, and other writings, but also includes his personal journals from 1966 to 2005. In 2015, the Ransom Center"
"song ""Faithfully"". In 1989, he married his second wife, Elizabeth Yvette Fullerton, with whom he has three children: Madison (1993) and twins Liza and Weston (1996). He and Elizabeth divorced in 2014. In April 2015, he married minister Paula White. He has built a recording studio called Addiction Sound in Nashville, and currently resides in Apopka, Florida. He has received two BMI songwriter awards, both for songs co-written with Steve Perry, ""Open Arms"" and ""Who's Crying Now"". The Journey song, ""When You Love a Woman"", which he co-wrote with Perry and Schon, was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1997."
"A three time Academy Award nominated and double BAFTA winning screenwriter and film producer of the films ""The Theory Of Everything"" and ""Darkest Hour"", his film ""Bohemian Rhapsody"" became the biggest grossing bio-pic of all time in 2018 , and was nominated for Best Picture (drama) Golden Globes 2018. He is also a celebrated novelist, author of seven novels, he received early international success with his play ""Ladies Night"". Translated into twelve languages, it continues to play worldwide. In 2001, it won France's premiere theatre award for comedy, the Molière Prize. In 2015 he was inducted as a Literary Fellow"
"Cast Recording, THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL - The Original Broadway Cast Recording, LA BOHÈME - The Original Broadway Cast Recording, FERMAT’S LAST TANGO - Original Cast Recording, SLOW DOWN – Slow Down Productions (CD Baby). Gilles Chiasson Gilles Chiasson (born November 1, 1966) is an American producer, director, composer, writer and actor. While he first came to prominence as an actor, particularly in the original cast of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning RENT, Chiasson now focuses on film and television development. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife Sherri Parker Lee and their two sons. Chiasson"
"massacre. He is married to singer Anna Jurksztowicz. As a film composer he is much sought after, and for most music lovers his name is associated with that area of activity. He has recently written music for screen versions of many masterpieces of Polish literature; he also composes for Hollywood. He has also made a brilliant career for himself as a jazzman. In 1985, he was ranked as one of the ten most distinguished jazz violinists in the world in the survey of the prestigious American magazine ""DownBeat"". All the same, he has not abandoned classical music, the writing of"
"University of America, where he graduated from the MFA playwriting program (2006). His plays have been staged with Yellow Taxi Productions (2006, Manchester, NH), the Strawberry One Act Festival (2006, 2007, 2008, NY), the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival (2004, NY) and the National Portrait Gallery's ""Cultures in Motion"" project (2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, Washington DC). In August 2006, he received the award for Best Director at the Strawberry One Act Festival where ""The Sitters"" was nominated for every award in the program. He is married to Shannon Kennedy Perry; they have one child, Jeanne Lynn, and one dog,"
"emigrated to the United States, where he has taught on the creative writing program at Princeton. He was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University for the five-year term 1999–2004, and is an Honorary Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. Muldoon is married to novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz, whom he met at an Arvon writing course. He has two children, Dorothy and Asher, and lives primarily in New York City. His poetry is known for his difficult, sly, allusive style, casual use of obscure or archaic words, understated wit, punning, and deft technique in meter and slant rhyme. As Peter Davidson says"
"1971. His fourth wife was Irina Ivanova, with whom he has two daughters: Nathalia and Elena. His fifth wife is Russian actress Julia Vysotskaya; they have been married since 1998 and have two children: Maria (1999) and Petr (2003). 2018 Career Award at the Sardinia Film Festival (XIII ed. - Sassari) 2018 Order ‘For merits to the Italian Republic’ (Italy) 2018 Russian Ludvic Nobel award (Russia) 2017 Award of Government of Russian Federation for his theater work (Russia) 2017 The Bridge award by Bernhard Wicki Foundation (Germany) 2017 The title of Professor of Moscow State Universaty (Russia) 2017 ‘Person of"
"from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1959. He and his wife, Jane Harmon (né Theaman), were married in 1957 in Scarsdale, New York. His wife is a theatrical producer who has produced Broadway plays, including ""Driving Miss Daisy"" and ""The Last Night of Ballyhoo"". Harmon and his wife reside in Weston, Connecticut. They have three children and four grandchildren. Harmon worked on Wall Street for 38 years. He spent 15 years at broker-dealer New York Hanseatic Corp, and in 1974 he joined investment banking firm Wertheim & Co. as chairman of the investment banking committee. He"
"years had been turning out screen plays for Warner Brothers First National Pictures. He wrote the script and dialogue for :The Singing Fool"", ""The Terror"", ""My Man"", ""Tenderloin"", ""Those Who Dance"", Fifty Million Frenchmen"", ""Smart Money"" and scores of others. He also was author of many vaudeville play-lets. He was married to Ethel Shannon former actress and had a 4-year-old son. He married April 10, 1927, at the Wilshire Boulevard Congregational Church, Los Angeles Joseph Jackson (screenwriter) Joseph Jackson (June 8, 1894 – May 26, 1932) was an American screenwriter, who was nominated for the now dead category of Best"
"such films as ""Eros + Massacre"". He has directed more than 20 films between 1960 and 2004. His film ""A Promise"" was screened in the Un Certain Regard section the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. Two years later his film ""Wuthering Heights"" would compete for the Golden Palm at the 1988 Festival. He returned with ""Women in the Mirror"", his first feature film in 14 years, in 2002. He has also written a number of philosophical books about his work and the cinema, including an award-winning study of Yasujirō Ozu. He is married to actress Mariko Okada, who has starred in"
"Roxanne Pulitzer Roxanne Pulitzer (née Renckens) (born February 10, 1951) is an American novelist and actress. She attracted media attention in the 1980s during her divorce trial from Herbert ""Peter"" Pulitzer. Pulitzer was born Roxanne Renckens on February 10, 1951, in Cassadaga, New York, to Marilyn Pauline (née Simpson) and William James Renckens. When Renckens was young, her father left town at her mother's request. Her mother remarried to Tyrone H. Ulrich, a police officer. She has a sister, Pamela, and a brother, Keith. Roxanne is a former cheerleader. Her first husband was Peter Dixon, whom she left while they"
"has taught drama and acting at the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) and Illinois Central College. He is married to Carole, and he has four children. Currently he is an author with a play (which he wrote, directed and starred in) ""Words and Pictures""; and two novels published: ""Hank Goes Dancing"" (a 1950s romp through British national service) and the action-romantic thriller ""Gone for a Soldier."" Other novels are in the works: ""Men of Violence"" and ""Dangerous Pastimes."" Additionally, he has written several screenplays that are in various stages of development. His memoir, ""Rubber-Soled Shoes,"" was published in 2018 by Versa"
"Gilroy, an award-winning playwright, director, and movie producer, who received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play ""The Subject Was Roses"" in 1965. He is the brother of screenwriter Dan Gilroy and editor John Gilroy. Through his father, he is of Italian, Irish and German descent. He has two children, Sam and Kathryn, and is married to Susan Gilroy. Gilroy was raised in Washingtonville, New York. He graduated from Washingtonville High School in 1974 at 16 years old and attended Boston University for two years before dropping out to concentrate on his"
"Playwright's Works)». Moscow, 1982. Married to Elena Stepanova – philologist, theater critic, pedagogue. Children: Rufina (born 1977.), journalist; Margarita (born 1988), architect. Tennessee Williams Eugene O'Neill Edward Albee Harold Pinter Arthur Miller David Mamet Joe Orton Matthew Witten An artistic meeting with the playwright Victor Denisov. «See You Later, Alligator» – concert performance and discussion. Director – Lyudmila Odiyankova. The M. Rudomino Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow. (27 March 2009) Instead of an Afterword. Prepared for the publication of T.Williams' play «Clothes for a Summer Hotel», 1992, № 4. Happy Anniversary! (Instead of an Afterword). Prepared for the publication of"
"co-written and directed by Martin Scorsese. Pileggi also wrote the screenplay for the film ""City Hall"" (1996), starring Al Pacino. He served as an Executive Producer of ""American Gangster"" (2007), a biographical crime film based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas. He also authored ""Blye, Private Eye"" (1987). Pileggi co-wrote the pilot of the CBS television series ""Vegas"", which first aired in September 2012. Pileggi was married to fellow author, journalist, and screenwriter Nora Ephron from 1987 until her death in 2012. Nicholas Pileggi Nicholas Pileggi (; born February 22, 1933) is an American producer, author and screenwriter. He"
"as seven feature documentary films which have been widely distributed. In 1987 he married the American literary scholar and writer Pamela Neville with whom he collaborated on a book on the influence of utopian thought. Pamela died in March 2017. The couple had no children. In 1999, he was awarded the Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism. In 2000, he was made an Honorary member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society His film Project Poltergeist won a prestigious Grierson Award in 2004. His films on climate change have won him a Gold Hugo Award, two Wildscreen awards,"
"Rebecca Miller Rebecca Augusta Miller, Lady Day-Lewis (born September 15, 1962) is an American independent filmmaker and novelist, known for her films ""Angela"", """", ""The Ballad of Jack and Rose"", ""The Private Lives of Pippa Lee"", and ""Maggie's Plan"", all of which she wrote and directed. Miller is the daughter of Arthur Miller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, and his third wife Inge Morath, Magnum photographer. Miller was born in Roxbury, Connecticut, to Arthur Miller, a notable playwright, and Austrian-born Inge Morath, a photographer. Her younger brother, Daniel, was born in 1966. Her father was Jewish, and her mother was Protestant."
"He married Bruce Bossard in 2009, and they had been a couple for 30 years before that. Bill Russell (lyricist) Bill Russell (born 1949) is an American librettist and lyricist. Among his stage musicals are ""Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens"" and ""Side Show"", which was nominated for the Tony Award as Best Musical. Russell's first musical to be produced is ""Fortune"", which ran Off-Broadway at the Actors' Plahouse from April 27, 1980 to November 23, 1980. Ronald Melrose wrote the music, with Russell writing the book and lyrics. The musical director and arranger was Janet Hood; they have"
"married jazz singer Jacintha Abisheganaden and divorced in 1997. He is a Roman Catholic. Dick Lee Richard ""Dick"" Lee Peng Boon (born 24 August 1956) is a Singaporean singer-songwriter, playwright and film director. He was born to a Peranakan father, Lee Kip Lee, (who wrote for ""The Straits Times""), and Elizabeth Tan. He was the eldest child in the family of five, with three brothers and a deceased younger sister. He received his early education at St. Michael's School (now SJI Junior) and his secondary education at St. Joseph's Institution. Dick Lee started his career in 1971 when, at the"
"he was awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Literature. He has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Sydney and East Anglia. In April 2008, James was awarded a Special Award for Writing and Broadcasting by the judges of the Orwell Prize. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010. He is an Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge (his alma mater). In the 2015 BAFTAs, James received a special award honouring his 50-year career. In 2014, he was awarded the President's Medal by the British Academy. In 1968, at Cambridge, James married Prudence"
"Mark Bouris for an amount ""somewhere in the neighborhood of $8 million"". Andrew Upton Andrew Upton (born 1 February 1966) is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, and director. He is the husband of Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett. As a playwright, Upton created adaptations of ""Hedda Gabler"", ""The Cherry Orchard"", ""Cyrano de Bergerac"", ""Don Juan"" (with Marion Potts), ""Uncle Vanya"", ""The Maids"", ""Children of the Sun"" and ""Platonov"" for the Sydney Theatre Company (STC) and Maxim Gorky's ""The Philistines"" for London's Royal National Theatre. His original play ""Riflemind"", with Hugo Weaving as an ageing rock star planning a comeback tour, opened"
"plays were made into motion pictures, and between 1916 and 1953 he was involved with the writing of more than seventy film scripts. Starting out in silent film, he made his talkie debut as actor, director, and co-writer of the 1929 film ""Voice of the City"". In 1933 he directed ""What Price Innocence?"". He then wrote and directed ""Broadway to Hollywood"", a backstage musical that spanned nearly five decades recounting the struggles of a vaudeville family. He was married four times, to actresses Maude Leone, Marjorie Rambeau, Pauline Frederick, and Beatrice Banyard. His writing success made him a wealthy man."
"and ""Aladdin & His Microsoft Compatible Floppy Drive Laptop"" (performed at the Arches Theatre, Southwark). For many years he and his life partner Aline Waites - herself an actress, playwright and critic - collaborated on scripts for plays, revues and musical theatre of all kinds. Their ""Illustrated Victorian Songbook"" was published by Michael Joseph in 1984. Appearances in West End theatre included male lead in ""Barefoot in the Park"", and juvenile lead in ""The Pleasure of his Company"". He was twice married:<br> • 1. Maria Charles with whom he had two daughters, the stage manager Samantha Hunter and the actress"