“People only do it with writers and I find that so ridiculous.”
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Edward Albee
Edward Franklin Albee III was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994). Some critics have argued that some of his work constitutes an American variant of what Martin Esslin identified as and named the Theater of the Absurd. Three of his plays won the Pulitz…
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culture · American playwright (1928–2016) · playwright · writer · screenwriter · university teacher · theatre director · also Edward Albee, Edward Franklin Albee III, Albee
Born 12 March 1928 · Died 16 September 2016 · Q219420
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2026· 10 entries
“A writer who happens to be gay or lesbian must be able to transcend self. I am not a gay writer. I am a writer who happens to be gay.”
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“Maybe because I was an orphan and didn”
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“As somebody said in one of my plays,”
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“What can be worse than coming to the end of your life knowing that you have some terminal disease or something and you”
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“As she began to get a bit senile and a bit more distrustful, she behaved more shamefully than she had before.”
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“To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all my love.”
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“It did strike me as being a rather typical university, intellectual joke,”
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Theatre-News.com: Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf announces full company - Theatre-News.com
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2018· 1 entry
Directed by Joe Mantello starring Glenda Jackson, Laurie Metcalf, and Allison Pill
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2016· 4 entries
Died 2016-09-16.
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“Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.”
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“The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.”
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“If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.”
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded America Award in Literature (2015).
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2013· 1 entry
The film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"
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2009· 1 entry
Albee received honorary degree from the Bulgarian National Academy of Theater and Film Arts (NATFA), a member of the Global Alliance of Theater Schools
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2008· 3 entries
Awarded Drama Desk Special Award (2008).
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Told interviewer Charlie Rose that he was "thrown out" because his parents wanted him to become a "corporate thug" and did not approve of his aspirations to be a writer
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In celebration of Albee's 80th birthday, a number of his plays were mounted in distinguished Off-Broadway venues, including the historic Cherry Lane Theatre where the playwright directed two of his early one-acts, The Am
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Play for The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (2002).
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Awarded Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play (2002).
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1999· 1 entry
Albee received the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award as a Master American Dramatist
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1996· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Miami (1996).
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Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded St. Louis Literary Award (1995).
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Three Tall Women (1994).
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1991· 1 entry
Wrote the play Three Tall Women, a two act play that premiered at the Vienna's English Theatre about three unnamed women
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1985· 1 entry
Albee was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Seascape (1975).
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1974· 1 entry
Wrote Seascape, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
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1971· 1 entry
Wrote All Over, a two-act play originally titled Death, the second half of a projected double bill with another play called Life (which later became Seascape)
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1967· 2 entries
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Delicate Balance (1967).
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From royalties from his play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
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1966· 1 entry
Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, and Sandy Dennis, and was directed by Mike Nichols
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1963· 3 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Play for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1963).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording (1963).
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And was selected for the 1963 Pulitzer Prize by the award's drama jury, but the selection was overruled by the advisory committee, which elected not to give a drama award at all
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1962· 1 entry
And closed on May 16, 1964, after five previews and 664 performances
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1947· 1 entry
For skipping classes and refusing to attend compulsory chapel
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1928· 1 entry
Born 1928-03-12.
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