"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"
"Jerry Ross (composer) Jerry Ross (born Jerold Rosenberg; March 9, 1926 – November 11, 1955) was an American lyricist and composer whose works with Richard Adler for the musical theater include ""The Pajama Game"" and ""Damn Yankees"", winners of Tony Awards in 1955 and 1956, respectively, in both the ""Best Musical"" and ""Best Composer and Lyricist"" categories. Ross was born Jerold Rosenberg to Russian immigrant parents, Lena and Jacob Rosenberg, in the Bronx, New York City. Growing up, he was a professional singer and actor in the Yiddish theater. Following high school he studied at New York University under Rudolph"
"with the theater. Mamet is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company; he first gained acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway plays in 1976, ""The Duck Variations,"" ""Sexual Perversity in Chicago,"" and ""American Buffalo."" He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for ""Glengarry Glen Ross,"" which received its first Broadway revival in the summer of 2005. His play ""Race"", which opened on Broadway on December 6, 2009 and featured James Spader, David Alan Grier, Kerry Washington, and Richard Thomas in the cast, received mixed reviews. His play ""The Anarchist"", starring Patti LuPone and Debra Winger, in her Broadway"
"shock value, but is rather an integral component of his characters' ""profane poetry"", which, according to frequent collaborator Gregory Mosher, ""worked the iambic pentameter out of the vernacular of the underclass."" The characters' sometimes vulgar lexicon, moreover, may be seen as psychologically necessary armor against their brutal environment. The parenthetical stage directions are straightforward and do not provide line readings. ""American Buffalo"" opened at the Goodman Theatre Stage II on November 23, 1975, directed by Gregory Mosher with the cast that featured William H. Macy, (Bobby), Bernard Erhard (Teach) and J.J. Johnston (Donny). The play premiered Off-Broadway at the Theatre"
"Howard Witt Howard Witt (January 17, 1932 – June 21, 2017) was an American character actor and Chicago native who began his acting career in the Goodman Theatre. Witt attended Von Steuben High School and was a drama student at The Theatre School at DePaul University. After Witt's career began at the Goodman Theatre, he gained additional acting experience at the Woodstock Playhouse in New York State and at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. His Broadway performances included ""Glengarry Glen Ross"". After divorcing his wife in the mid-1970s, Witt moved to Hollywood. He had appeared as a guest star"
"and the Netherlands, among other countries. Falls most recently directed ""American Buffalo"", by David Mamet, on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre. The production starred Haley Joel Osment, Cedric the Entertainer and John Leguizamo. It received mixed reviews, closing after just eight performances. More successfully, Falls directed ""Talk Radio"" by Eric Bogosian at the Longacre Theatre, which was nominated for a 2007 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. The play starred Liev Schreiber, who was nominated for a 2007 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his work. He directed the American premiere of Conor McPherson's ""Shining"
"Frank D. Gilroy Frank Daniel Gilroy (October 13, 1925 – September 12, 2015) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film producer and director. He received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play ""The Subject Was Roses"" in 1965. Gilroy was born on October 13, 1925, in New York City, the son of Bettina (née Vasti) and Frank B. Gilroy, a coffee broker. His father was Irish American and his mother was of Italian and German descent. Gilroy lived in the Bronx for most of his childhood and attended DeWitt Clinton High School."
"Butterfly"", ""Spring Awakening"", and ""The Book of Mormon"". The Glencairn Plays, all of which feature characters on the fictional ship ""Glencairn""—filmed together as ""The Long Voyage Home"": Other one-act plays include: Eugene O'Neill Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into U.S. drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The drama ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" is often numbered on the short list of the"
"London on 21 September 1983, directed by Bill Bryden. ""Glengarry Glen Ross"" had its U.S. premiere on 6 February 1984, at the Goodman Theatre of the Arts Institute of Chicago before moving to Broadway on 25 March 1984 at the John Golden Theatre and running for 378 shows. On 1 May 2005, a Broadway revival directed by Joe Mantello opened at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. The revival starred Liev Schreiber as Roma, Alan Alda as Levene, Frederick Weller as Williamson, Gordon Clapp as Moss, Jeffrey Tambor as Aaronow, Tom Wopat as Lingk and Jordan Lage as Baylen. The revival"
"received numerous Tony Award nominations, including Best Featured Actor nominations for Schreiber, Clapp and Alda, with Schreiber taking home the prize. The production also won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. On 27 September 2007, the play was revived at the Apollo Theatre, London, starring Jonathan Pryce (who played client James Lingk in the 1992 film adaptation) as Levene, alongside Aidan Gillen (Roma), Paul Freeman (Aaronow), Matthew Marsh (Moss) and Peter McDonald (Williamson). The production was directed by James Macdonald. ""Glengarry Glen Ross"" has also been produced as a radio play for BBC Radio 3, featuring Hector"
"Frank Chanfrau Francis S. Chanfrau (1824 – October 2, 1884), known as Frank Chanfrau, was an American actor and theatre manager in the 19th century. He began his career playing bit parts and doing impressions of star actors such as Edwin Forrest and of ethnic groups. In 1848, he appeared as a Bowery b'hoy named Mose in ""A Glance at New York"". The play became a record-breaking hit, due largely to the Mose character, and Chanfrau spent most of the rest of his career playing that role. In later life, Chanfrau appeared regularly in ""Kit, the Arkansas Traveller"" and ""Sam""."
"to sell now; Glen Ross Farms is mentioned by several characters as having been very lucrative for those selling it several years ago. The world premiere was at the National Theatre in London on 21 September 1983, where Bill Bryden's production in the Cottesloe Theatre was acclaimed as a triumph of ensemble acting. The play opened on Broadway on 25 March 1984, at the John Golden Theatre, and closed on 17 February 1985 after 378 performances. The production was directed by Gregory Mosher, and starred Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum, Robert Prosky, Lane Smith, James Tolkan, Jack Wallace and J. T."
"American Repertory Theater of Western New York American Repertory Theater of Western New York is a theatre company located in Buffalo, New York. Established in 2007 by Matthew LaChiusa, the company has produced contemporary comedies including ""Greater Tuna"" and ""Laughter on the 23rd Floor"", musicals such as ""Floyd Collins"", premieres of new plays such as ""Fred's Requiem"", well-known dramas such as ""The Gin Game"", and edgier fare such as ""Killer Joe"" and ""Heathers: The Musical"". The theatre also showcases the work of local Buffalo playwrights and other new playwrights in their annual One-Act Showcase and Young Playwrights Festival. The company's"
"American Buffalo (film) American Buffalo is a 1996 British-American drama film directed by Michael Corrente and starring Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Franz, and Sean Nelson, the only members of the cast. The film is based on David Mamet's 1975 play ""American Buffalo"". The film was produced by Gregory Mosher, who was also responsible for directing the theatrical version of ""American Buffalo"". Donny runs a junk shop in a city's sparsely populated and decaying neighborhood. Teach, who has no visible means of support, spends many hours each day at the shop, as does Bobby, a young man who is eager to please"
"Anthony Ross Anthony Ross (February 23, 1909 — October 26, 1955) was an American character actor whose career extended to Broadway stage, television and film. Born in New York City, Ross was a graduate of Brown University and, while living in France, continued his studies at the Sorbonne and the University of Nancy. He may be best remembered for being the first to play the character of the ""Gentleman Caller"" in the original 1944 production of Tennessee Williams' ""The Glass Menagerie"". Ross appeared in 20th Century Fox films including ""Kiss of Death"" (1947) and ""The Gunfighter"" (1950); in the Warner"
"Bruce Norris (playwright) Bruce Norris (born May 16, 1960) is an American actor and playwright associated with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago. His play ""Clybourne Park"" won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. After graduating from Northwestern University in 1982 with a degree in theatre, Norris set out to become an actor. He performed at Victory Gardens Theater, the Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre and on Broadway. His Broadway acting credits include David Hirson's ""Wrong Mountain"" (January to February 2000), Wendy Wasserstein's ""An American Daughter"" (April to June 1997), and Neil Simon's ""Biloxi Blues"" (March 1985 to June 1986). During"
"1971. Gilroy's three sons, from his marriage to sculptor/writer Ruth Dorothy Gaydos, are involved in the film industry. Tony Gilroy and Dan Gilroy are screenwriters and directors, while John Gilroy is a film editor. Frank Gilroy died on September 12, 2015 in Monroe, New York. Frank D. Gilroy Frank Daniel Gilroy (October 13, 1925 – September 12, 2015) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film producer and director. He received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play ""The Subject Was Roses"" in 1965. Gilroy was born on October 13, 1925, in New"
"DuBose Heyward Edwin DuBose Heyward (August 31, 1885 – June 16, 1940) was an American author best known for his 1925 novel ""Porgy"". He and his wife Dorothy, a playwright, adapted it as a 1927 play of the same name. The couple worked with composer George Gershwin to adapt the work as the 1935 opera ""Porgy and Bess"". It was later adapted as a 1959 film of the same name. Heyward also wrote poetry and other novels and plays. He wrote the children's book ""The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes"" (1939). Heyward was born in 1885 in Charleston,"
"Edward Albee Edward Franklin Albee III ( ; March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as ""The Zoo Story"" (1958), ""The Sandbox"" (1959), ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" (1962), and ""A Delicate Balance"" (1966). Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play. His works are often considered as frank examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights"
"Androboros Androboros is a play by Robert Hunter written in 1714 when Hunter was serving as the colonial governor of New York and New Jersey. It survives as the earliest known play ever written and published in the North American British colonies. The only surviving copy is currently held in the collections of the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. The play is a two-act tragicomedy that ridicules Hunter's political enemies with lightly veiled characters corresponding to many important political figures in early New York, including the Rev. William Vesey, Adolphe Philipse, Thomas Smithfield, and Lewis Morris. The story takes"
"at the National Theatre, playing Teach in ""American Buffalo"", Judas in ""The Passion"", Boamer in ""Lark Rise"", Thomas Clarkeson in ""The World Turned Upside Down"", Smitty in ""The Long Voyage Home"", The Correspondent in ""Dispatches"" and Hickey in ""The Iceman Cometh"". Shepherd originated the stage role of Richard Roma in ""Glengarry Glen Ross"" at the Cottesloe in 1983, for which he received a Society of West End Theatre award (later known as the Laurence Olivier Awards) as Actor of the Year in a New Play. His first written work for the stage was ""In Lambeth"", an imaginary conversation about revolution"
"the play ""Glengarry Glen Ross"". Show runner Mike Scully thought that Gil would be ""a one-shot thing"" but ""Dan Castellaneta was so funny at the table read doing the character, we kept making up excuses in subsequent episodes to put him in."" The Blue-Haired Lawyer's voice, as well as his demeanor, is based on lawyer Roy Cohn. Castellaneta has won several awards for voicing Homer, including four Primetime Emmy Awards for ""Outstanding Voice-Over Performance"" in 1992 for ""Lisa's Pony"", 1993 for ""Mr. Plow"", 2004 for voicing several characters in ""Today I Am a Clown"", and 2009 for voicing Homer in"
"to the lung disease bronchiectasis. In his short life Ross was extremely productive; he wrote, alone or in collaboration, more than 250 songs in addition to his theatre work. Ross was entered posthumously into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1982, his wife, Judy, and daughter, Janie, accepting on his behalf. <br> Jerry Ross (composer) Jerry Ross (born Jerold Rosenberg; March 9, 1926 – November 11, 1955) was an American lyricist and composer whose works with Richard Adler for the musical theater include ""The Pajama Game"" and ""Damn Yankees"", winners of Tony Awards in 1955 and 1956, respectively, in both"
"Stephen Adly Guirgis Stephen Adly Guirgis is an American playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor. He is a member and a former co-artistic director of New York City's LAByrinth Theater Company. His plays have been produced both Off-Broadway and on Broadway as well as in the UK. His play ""Between Riverside and Crazy"" won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Guirgis is the son of an Egyptian father and an Irish American mother. He was raised on New York City's Upper West Side. He attended school in nearby Harlem and graduated from University at Albany, SUNY in 1992. Guirgis' play ""Between"
"Barrie Stavis Barrie Stavis (June 16, 1906 – February 2, 2007) was an American playwright. He has authored several plays about men struggling in the vortex of history. His subjects include scientist Galileo, abolitionist John Brown, and labor leader Joe Hill. His play, ""Lamp at Midnight"", about Galileo's struggle with the Catholic Church to get his ideas accepted, was performed and televised on the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1966. Melvyn Douglas starred as Galileo. Stavis's plays can be done on a clean, simple stage. They have been translated into 28 languages and have been produced in dozens of major"
"fine."" Ethel Voynich was so unimpressed with his version of her novel ""The Gadfly"" that she tried to take out an injunction against the ""illiterate melodrama"" as she called it. As his ""New York Times"" obituary pointed out, he should not be confused with British playwright Edward Rose (1849–1904), who dramatized ""The Prisoner of Zenda"". Edward Everett typically marketed himself under the name ""Edward E. Rose"", unlike the British writer. The ""Rue Edward Rose"" or Rose Street in Sherbrooke, Quebec is named for him. Edward Everett Rose Edward Everett Rose (February 11, 1862 - April 2, 1939) was an American"
"John Clancy (playwright) John Clancy is a contemporary American playwright and director. He was a co-founder and first Artistic Director of the New York International Fringe Festival and its producing organization The Present Company. John Clancy's written work centers mainly on the American experience, and is characterized by dark humor and farce. His best-known play is ""Fatboy: An American Grotesque"", a modern re-working of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi. His monologue ""The Event"" premiered in Edinburgh in 2009 and has gone on to tour Germany, the Netherlands, Australia and the United States and has been translated into Greek and German. Clancy's"
"Dennis Fitzgerald as Ross. A new production directed by Ian Rickson and starring Damian Lewis, Sophie Okonedo, Jason Hughes and Archie Madekwe opened at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London's West End, in 2017. The play was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama (won that year by ""Anna in the Tropics""). The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? is a full-length play written in 2000 by Edward Albee which opened on Broadway in 2002. It won the 2002 Tony Award for Best Play, the 2002 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, and"
"Matt Ross (actor) Matthew Brandon Ross (born January 3, 1970) is an American actor, director, and screenwriter. He wrote and directed the feature film ""Captain Fantastic"", starring Viggo Mortensen, for which he won Un Certain Regard at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Before that, Ross made seven short films, including ""The Language of Love"", which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. As an actor, Ross is best known for his roles as Gavin Belson in the HBO series ""Silicon Valley"", Alby Grant in the HBO series ""Big Love"", Glenn Odekirk in ""The Aviator"", and Luis Carruthers in ""American Psycho"". He"
"George Furth George Furth (December 14, 1932 – August 11, 2008) was an American librettist, playwright, and actor. Furth was born George Schweinfurth in Chicago, Illinois, the son of George and Evelyn (née Tuerk) Schweinfurth. He received a Bachelor of Science in Speech at Northwestern University in 1954 and received his master's degree from Columbia University. A life member of the Actors Studio, Furth made his Broadway debut as an actor in the 1961 play ""A Cook for Mr. General"", followed by the musical ""Hot Spot"" two years later. He was also known for his collaborations with Stephen Sondheim: the"
"Richard Roma Richard Roma is a fictional character from David Mamet's 1982 play ""Glengarry Glen Ross"" and its 1992 film adaptation. Roma has been portrayed by a range of actors, including Joe Mantegna, Al Pacino and Liev Schreiber, although the role was originated by Jack Shepherd. Actors portraying Roma have seen multiple stage award wins and nominations—both Mantegna and Schreiber received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for their depictions, while Shepherd earned a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his portrayal. In film, Pacino received nominations for both the Academy Award for Best Supporting"
"George Axelrod George Axelrod (June 9, 1922 – June 21, 2003) was an American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director, best known for his play, ""The Seven Year Itch"" (1952), which was adapted into a movie of the same name starring Marilyn Monroe. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his 1961 adaptation of Truman Capote's ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" and also adapted Richard Condon's ""The Manchurian Candidate"" (1962). Axelrod was born in New York City, the son of Beatrice Carpenter, a silent film actress, and Herman Axelrod, a Columbia graduate who had worked on the school's annual Varsity Show"
"Edgar Lansbury (producer) Edgar George McIldowie Lansbury (born 12 January 1930) is an award-winning British-American theatre, film, and television producer. Born in London, Lansbury is the son of Belfast-born actress Moyna Macgill and Edgar Lansbury, a politician and businessman and the grandson of future Labour Party leader George Lansbury. He is the younger brother of actress Angela Lansbury and the twin brother of television producer Bruce Lansbury; both brothers became United States citizens in 1954. Lansbury's first Broadway production, the 1964 Frank D. Gilroy play ""The Subject Was Roses"", won him the Tony Award for Best Play. Other Broadway credits"