Biography
Terrence McNally (November 3, 1938 β 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.
Filmography
all 27
Movies 22
Writer 14
self 7
TV Shows 5
Screenplay 1
Ragtime Reunion Concert (2024)
The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking (2023)
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It (2021)
It's Only a Play (2021)
Anastasia (2021)
Chita: A Legendary Celebration (2020)
Every Act of Life (2018)
Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do (2015)
The State of Marriage (2015)
Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption (2013)
30 Years from Here (2011)
Heart of Broadway: The Ensemble Behind Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (2011)
Ragtime (2002)
Common Ground (2000)
Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997)
The Last Mile (1992)
Frankie and Johnny (1991)
Charlie Rose (1991)
Andre's Mother (1990)
Sam Found Out: A Triple Play (1988)
Mama Malone (1984)
Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983)
Knots Landing (1979)
The Five Forty-Eight (1979)
The Ritz (1976)
Common Ground
Kiss of the Spider Woman
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1939-11-03
Deathday2020-03-24 (80 years old)
Birth PlaceSt. Petersburg, Florida, United States of America
RelationshipsEdward Albee (1959-01-01 - 1964-01-01)
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesSarasota, United States of America
Also Known AsTerrence Mc Nally
AwardsHull-Warriner Award, Drama League Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Primetime Emmy Award
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