Terrence McNally
| Terrence McNally | |
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| Born |
November 3, 1938 St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S. |
| Occupation | Playwright, librettist |
| Education | B. A. in English |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Period | 1964–present |
| Spouse | Thomas Kirdahy (April 6, 2010 – present) |
| Website | |
| http://www.terrencemcnally.com/ | |
Terrence McNally (born November 3, 1938) is an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter.
McNally has been described as "a probing and enduring dramatist" and "one of the greatest contemporary playwrights the theater world has yet produced". He has received the Tony Award for Best Play for Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class, as well as the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime. His other accolades include an Emmy Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, four Drama Desk Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, two Obie Awards, three Hull-Warriner Awards, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a recipient of the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award as well as the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2016, the Lotos Club honored McNally at their annual "State Dinner," which has previously honored such luminaries as W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, George M. Cohan, Moss Hart, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, Saul Bellow, and Arthur Miller. In addition to his award-winning plays and musicals, he also written two operas, multiple screenplays, teleplays, and a memoir.
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