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Advisory
Board-Edward Albee
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Born March 12, 1928
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| His plays in order of composition are: |
- 1958 THE ZOO STORY
- 1959 THE DEATH OF BESSIE SMITH
- 1959 THE SANDBOX
- 1959 FAM AND YAM
- 1960 THE AMERICAN DREAM
- 1961/2 WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
- 1963 THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE (adapted from the novella
by Carson McCullers)
- 1964 TINY ALICE
- 1965 MALCOLM (adapted from the novel by James Purdy)
- 1966 A DELICATE BALANCE
- 1967 EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN (adapted from the play by Giles
Cooper)
- 1968 BOX and QUOTATIONS FROM MAO TSE-TUNG
- 1971 ALL OVER
- 1974 SEASCAPE
- 1975 LISTENING
- 1976 COUNTING THE WAYS
- 1977/9 THE LADY FROM DUBUQUE
- 1979 LOLITA (adapted from the novel by Vladimir Nabokov)
- 1981 THE MAN WHO HAD THREE ARMS
- 1982 FINDING THE SUN
- 1986/7 MARRIAGE PLAY
- 1990/1 THREE TALL WOMEN
- 1992 THE LORCA PLAY
- 1993 FRAGMENTS
- 1996 THE PLAY ABOUT THE BABY
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| Among the plays Mr. Albee has directed are: |
- THE ZOO STORY (1961 and after, off-Broadway and tours)
- THE AMERICAN DREAM (1962 and after, Off-Broadway and tours)
- SEASCAPE (1975 Broadway)
- WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1976 Broadway revival,
and 1989 L.A. revival featuring Glenda Jackson and John Lithgow)
- LISTENING and COUNTING THE WAYS (1977 American premiere)
- ALBEE DIRECTS ALBEE (all of the one-acts; tour)
- PLAYS by Shepard, Wilson, Mamet (English Theatre, Vienna,
Austria, 1985)
- MARRIAGE PLAY (World Premiere, English Theatre, Vienna, 1987;
American premiere, Alley Theatre, Houston, and McCarter Theatre,
Princeton, NJ 1991-92)
- KRAPP’S LAST TAPE & OHIO IMPROMPTU, by Samuel Beckett
(Alley Theatre, Houston, 1991)
- THREE TALL WOMEN (World premiere, English Theatre, Vienna,
1991)
- HAPPY DAYS by Samuel Becket (Alley Theatre, Houston 1993)
- FRAGMENTS (World premiere, Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati,
1993)
- SAND (An evening of Albee one-acts: BOX, THE SANDBOX, and
FINDING THE SUN, Signature Theatre, New York, 1994)
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| Among the awards Mr. Albee has received are: |
- 1960 The Vernon Rice Award for THE ZOO STORY
- 1961 Foreign Press Association Award for THE AMERICAN DREAM
- 1963 Tony Award and Drama Critics Circle Award for WHO’S
AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
- 1966 The Pulitzer Prize for A DELICATE BALANCE
- 1975 The Pulitzer Prize for SEASCAPE
- 1980 Gold Medal in Drama from Academy and Institute of Arts
and Letters
- 1994 The Pulitzer Prize, Drama Critics Circle Award, Lucille
Lortel Award, London Evening Standard Award, and Outer Critics
Circle Award for THREE TALL WOMEN
- 1994 Obie Award for Sustained Achievement in Theatre
- 1996 Tony Award, Best Revival of a Play, A DELICATE BALANCE,
Lincoln Center Theatre Broadway revival
- 1996 Kennedy Center Honors
- 1996 National Medal of Arts
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| Among the organizations of which Mr. Albee is a
member are: |
- The Dramatists Guild Council
- The American Academy of Arts and Letters
- President, International Theatre Institute (U.S.A)
- President, The Edward F. Albee Foundation, Inc.
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