Stephen Adly Guirgis

The Motherfucker with the Hat (TCG Edition) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

World premiere of The Motherfucker with the Hat was at Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (Broadway, New York) in the spring of 2011. The highly praised production starred actor/comedian Chris Rock in his Broadway debut.

The Motherfucker with the Hat had subsequent regional productions at Theaterworks in Connecticut, San Francisco Playhouse, and Artists Repertory Theatre in LA.

The Motherfucker with the Hat was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play, a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, and six Tony Award nominations including Best Play.

New York Times critic Ben Brantley calls The Motherfucker with the Hat "by far the most accomplished and affecting work from the gifted Mr. Guirgis, a prolific...chronicler of marginal lives."

Dominica: The Fat Ugly Ho originally premiered in 2006 as part of Ensemble Studios' Series C, a festival of one-act plays.

Stephen Adly Gurigis' Between Riverside and Crazy won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Guirgis also penned the widely acclaimed whimsical drama The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.

Guirgis is a former co-artistic director of LAByrinth Theater Company.

Guirgis has received the Yale Wyndham-Campbell Prize, a PEN/Laura Pels Award, and a Whiting Award and a fellowship from TCG in 2004.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Theatre Communications Group
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781559368438
• Artikelnr.: 49989235

Autorenporträt

Stephen Adly Guirgis is a member and former co-artistic director of LAByrinth Theater Company, and the 2015 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His plays have been produced on five continents and throughout the United States. They include Our Lady of 121st Street (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle Best Play Nominations), Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train (Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award, Barrymore Award, Olivier Nomination for London's Best New Play), In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings (2007 LA Drama Critics Best Play, Best Writing Award), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (10 Best Plays of the Year, Time Magazine & Entertainment Weekly), and The Little Flower of East Orange (with Ellen Burstyn & Michael Shannon). All five plays were directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman and were originally produced by LAByrinth. His Broadway debut, The Motherfucker with the Hat (6 Tony nominations, including Best Play), was directed by Anna D. Shapiro and marked his third consecutive world premiere co-production with The Public Theater and LAByrinth. In London, his plays have premiered at The Donmar Warehouse, The Almeida (dir: Rupert Goold), The Hampstead (Robert Delamere), and at The Arts Theater in the West End. Other plays include Den of Thieves (Labyrinth, HERE, HAI, Black Dahlia) and Dominica The Fat Ugly Ho (dir: Adam Rapp) for the 2006 E.S.T. Marathon. He has received the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Yale Wyndham-Campbell Prize, a PEN/Laura Pels Award, a Whiting Award, and a TCG fellowship. He is also a New Dramatists Alumnae and a member of MCC's Playwright's Coalition, The Ojai Playwrights Festival, New River Dramatists, and Labyrinth Theater Company. As an actor, he has appeared in theater, film and television, including roles in Kenneth Lonergan's film Margaret, Todd Solondz's Palindromes, and Brett C Leonard's Jailbait opposite Michael Pitt. A former violence prevention specialist and H.I.V. educator, he lives in New York City.