The Country House
| Donald Margulies | |
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| Born |
September 2, 1954 Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Occupation | Playwright Screenwriter Professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Purchase College |
| Spouse | Lynn Street |
Donald Margulies (born September 2, 1954) is an American playwright and a professor of English and Theater Studies at Yale University. In 2000, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Dinner with Friends.
Margulies attended John Dewey High School in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Purchase College where he received a BFA in Visual Arts. Margulies lives with his wife, Lynn Street, a physician, and their son, Miles, in New Haven, Connecticut.
He is a professor of English and Theatre Studies at Yale University.
Margulies' notable works include The Country House (2014), Time Stands Still (2009) and Brooklyn Boy (2004). Sight Unseen and Collected Stories were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, in 1992 and 1997, respectively; Dinner with Friends was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2000.
Margulies said of Sight Unseen, "It's about loss, like most of my plays, and about identity."Ben Brantley noted themes in his works: "The central motifs in Brooklyn Boy have always been visible in Mr. Margulies's work, from the willed amnesia of the self-invented artist (Sight Unseen) to the hazy lines between fiction and reality (Collected Stories). And Eric's fractious, divided family, summoned in recollection in Brooklyn Boy, has been anticipated in The Loman Family Picnic and What's Wrong With This Picture?
The play was developed in connection with the Nashville Repertory Theatre Ingram New Works Festival. The unfinished play was given a reading in May 2015 at the Festival. The play focuses on a "long-overdue reunion between two middle-aged brothers."
The play takes place in the Berkshires, where Anna, an actress, is appearing at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. She is entertaining her son, Elliot; a handsome actor, Michael; her son-in-law, Walter, who was married to her deceased daughter, and his girlfriend, Nell and daughter Susie.
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