Kuka päivitti Edward Albee?

Edward Franklin Albee (12. maaliskuuta 1928 Virginia – 16. syyskuuta 2016 Montauk, New York) oli yhdysvaltalainen näytelmäkirjailija.

Albeen tunnettuja teoksia on näytelmä Kuka pelkää Virginia Woolfia? (1961), josta hän sai Pulitzer-palkinnon.. Teoksissaan hän tarkastelee nykyajan ilmiöitä rehellisesti ja joskus vailla myötätuntoa. Hänen varhaiset teoksensa olivat amerikkalaista absurdismia, joka rakentui eurooppalaisten Samuel Beckettin, Jean Genet’n ja Eugene Ionescon pohjalle.^lähde?

Albee adoptoitiin teatteriperheeseen. Hänen opiskelunsa jäi kesken. Beckett-vaikutteinen yksinäytöksinen Eläintarhatarina (The Zoo Story, 1959) oli off-Broadway-näytelmä, samoin seuraavat Bessie Smithin kuolema (1960) ja Hiekkalaatikko (1960). Hän kohdistaa niissä ja Amerikkalaisessa unelmassa (1961) satiirin keskiluokan arvomaailmaan.

Albee jatkoi uraansa liki viisikymmentä vuotta. Hänen teoksensa Vuohi, eli kuka on Sylvia sai Tony-palkinnon vuonna 2000. Me Myself and I avasi vuonna 2010 New Yorkin Playwrights Horizon -tapahtuman.

Albee kuoli 88-vuotiaana kotonaan Long Islandin Montaukin kylässä 16. syyskuuta 2016.

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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 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 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 centered 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 Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Florida.