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February 09, 2010   

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Terrence McNally

Show(s) (listed chronologically,
most recent first)
Position(s) Role(s) Theater Name Award Nominations Award(s) Won
Some Men Playwright

Second Stage Theatre 2007 Drama Desk Award Nomination, Outstanding Play
Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams Playwright

59E59 Theater A
The Stendhal Syndrome Playwright

59E59 Theater A
A Man of No Importance Book

Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 2003 Drama Desk Nomination, Outstanding Book of a Musical
Corpus Christi Playwright

Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I
By the Sea, By the Sea, By the Beautiful Sea Playwright

Manhattan Theatre Club Stage II
Love! Valour! Compassion! Playwright

Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I 1994-1995 OBIE Award for Playwriting
1995 Drama Desk Award, Best New Play
A Perfect Ganesh Playwright

Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I
Lips Together, Teeth Apart Playwright

Lucille Lortel Theatre 1992 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Play
Lips Together, Teeth Apart Playwright

Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I
Bad Habits Playwright

Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I
The Lisbon Traviata Playwright

Promenade Theatre
The Lisbon Traviata Playwright

Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I
Urban Blight Book

Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune Playwright

Westside Theatre (Upstairs)
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune Playwright

Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I
Outstanding Body of Work 1992 Recipient

It's Only a Play Playwright

Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I
Bad Habits Playwright

Astor Place Theatre 1974 Obie Award, Distinguished Play
Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? Playwright

Eastside Playhouse
Adaptation/ Next Playwright

Greenwich Mews Theatre
Sweet Eros/ Witness Playwright

Gramercy Arts Theatre
Playwright

Playwright

Biography    
Terrence McNally has won four Tony Awards: 1998 for the musical Ragtime; 1996 for Master Class, in which Zoe Caldwell created the role of Maria Callas; 1995 for Love! Valour! Compassion! (Also Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and NY Drama Critic’s Circle Awards); and 1993 for the musical Kiss of the Spider Woman. Other plays include The Full Monty; Corpus Christi; A Perfect Ganesh; Lips Together, Teeth Apart (Lucille Award for Outstanding Play); The Lisbon Traviatta; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; and It’s Only A Play, all of which began at MTC. Earlier stage works include Bad Habits, The Ritz, Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone?, And Things That Go Bump In the Night, Next, and the book for the musical The Rink. Opera: NYC Opera’s Central Park Opera Trilogy (libretto for The Food of Love, with music by Robert Beaser), San Francisco Opera’s premiere of Dead Man Walking (libretto with music by Jake Heggie). McNally has written a number of TV scripts, including "Andre’s Mother’ (Emmy Award). He received two Guggenheim Fellowships, A Rockefeller Grant, a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He has been a member of the Dramatists Guild since 1970.
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