Christopher Durang (Playwright)

Plays include The Idiots Karamazov (coauthored with Albert Innaurato), A History of the American Film, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You (Obie Award), Beyond Therapy (off and on Broadway), Baby with the Bathwater, The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Obie & Dramatists Award), Laughing Wild, For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls, Betty’s Summer Vacation (Obie winner), Miss Witherspoon, Why Torture is Wrong and the People Who Love Them and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (2013 Tony Best Play). Cabaret: Das Lusitania Songspiel, coauthored and performed by Sigourney Weaver and Durang (Drama Desk nominations for both performers); Chris Durang and Dawne (Bistro Award for Durang and John Augustine and Sherry Anderson). He won the Harvard Arts Medal, the PEN/Laura Pels Award for a Master American Dramatist; inducted in the Theatre Hall of Fame. He and Marsha Norman have been co-chairs of the Juilliard Playwriting Program. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council.

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