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Terrence McNally

Playwright / Screenwriter / Writer | * 11/03/1938 († 81, 03/24/2020) | St. Petersburg (United States of America (USA))
Terrence McNally (November 3, 1938 – March 24, 2020) was an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. Described as "the bard of American theater" and "one of the greatest contemporary playwrights the theater world has yet produced," McNally was the recipient of five Tony Awards. He won the Tony Award for Best Play for Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class and the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime, and received the 2019 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1996, and he also received the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 and the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2018, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the highest recognition of artistic merit in the United States. His other accolades included an Emmy Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, four Drama Desk Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, two Obie Awards, and three Hull-Warriner Awards. His career spanned six decades, and his plays, musicals, and operas were routinely perf... ()
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Terrence McNally (November 3, 1938 – March 24, 2020) was an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter.Described as "the bard of American theatre" and "one of the greatest contemporary playwrights the theatre world has yet produced," McNally was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1996. He received the 2019 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011, and the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2018, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the highest recognition of artistic merit in the United States.He 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 included an Emmy Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, four Drama Desk Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, two Obie Awards, and three Hull-Warriner Awards.His career spanned six decades, and his plays, musicals, and operas were routinely performed all over the world. He also wrote screenplays, teleplays, and a memoir. Active in the regional and off-Broadway theatre movements as well as on Broadway, he was one of the few playwrights of his generation to have successfully passed from the avant-garde to mainstream acclaim. His work centred on the difficulties of and urgent need for human connection. He was vice-president of the Council of the Dramatists Guild from 1981 to 2001.He died of complications from COVID-19 on March 24, 2020, at a hospital in Florida.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Documentaries | Comedies

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Awards & Nominations for Terrence McNally

Guggenheim Fellowship Primetime Emmy Awards Drama League Award Hull-Warriner Award
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Movies with Terrence McNally as Actor(7)

TV Shows/Series with Terrence McNally as Actor(3)

as Self (Playwright)1991 Charlie Rose

Movies with Terrence McNally as Crew(7)

Writing/Writer2014 Master Class
Writing/Writer2000 Common Ground
Writing/Screenplay1997 Love! Valour! Compassion!
Writing/Screenplay1991 Frankie and Johnny
Writing/Teleplay1979 The Five Forty-Eight
Writing/Screenplay1976 The Ritz
Writing/Theatre Play1976 The Ritz

TV Shows/Series with Terrence McNally as Crew(1)

Writing/Writer1982 American Playhouse

Full Name: Terrence McNally
Born: Thursday, 11/03 1938 (November) in St. Petersburg (United States of America (USA))
Died: Tuesday, 03/24 2020 (March) in Sarasota (aged: 81)
Zodiac sign: Scorpio (Chinese zodiac sign: Tiger)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: W. B. Ray High School, Columbia College
Member of: Phi Beta Kappa Society, American Academy of Arts and Letters
Spouses (current/former): Tom Kirdahy
Other names for Terrence McNally (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Terrence Mc Nally"
Terrence McNally frequently works together with these people:
James Brandon (4x, Crew)
Jeffrey Kaufman (4x, Crew)
Nic Arnzen (4x, Actor)
Gregory Itzin (3x, Actor)
Rita Moreno (3x, Actress)
Norman Lear (3x, Crew)
Charlie Rose (3x, Actor)
Larry Kramer (3x, Actor)
Tom Kirdahy (3x, Cast)
Eric T. Feldman (3x, Crew)
Josh Rosenzweig (3x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:1007212, Added: 11/28/2018, Last updated: 03/14/2024