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CHRISTOPHER DURANG has had plays On and
Off-Broadway including A History of
the American Film (Tony nomination),
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All
For You (OBIE Award), Beyond
Therapy, Baby with the
Bathwater, The Marriage of Bette
and Boo (OBIE Award, Hull Warriner
Award), Laughing Wild, Betty’s
Summer Vacation (OBIE Award),
Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas
Binge and Miss Witherspoon,
which had a double premiere at McCarter
Theatre and Playwrights Horizons.
Miss Witherspoon and Mrs.
Bob… will soon be published by
Grove/Atlantic Press. His musical,
Adrift in Macao, with book and
lyrics by Durang and music by Peter
Melnick received its New York City
premier at Primary Stages following a
run at Philadelphia Theatre Company. As
an actor, he has appeared in movies and
in his own plays. He’s appeared with
Sigourney Weaver in their co-authored
Das Lusitania Songspiel (Drama
Desk nominations for both of them), and
with Julie Andrews in the Stephen
Sondheim revue Putting It
Together at Manhattan Theatre Club.
With John Augustine and Sherry Anderson
he performed his crackpot cabaret
Chris Durang and Dawne (Bistro
Award). With Marsha Norman, he’s
co-chair of the Playwriting Program at
Juilliard where they have jointly won
the Margo Jones Award for their work
with developing playwrights. He’s a
member of the Dramatists Guild Council. |
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