Vem daterade Edward Albee?

Edward Franklin Albee, född 12 mars 1928 i Washington, D.C., död 16 september 2016 i Montauk på Long Island i New York, var en amerikansk författare och dramatiker. Han har bland annat skrivit Vem är rädd för Virginia Woolf? (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1962) och Berättelsen om hunden (The Zoo Story, 1958), The Sandbox (1959) och The American Dream (1960).

Edward Albees verk anses välskrivna och är ofta osympatiska undersökningar av det moderna livets tillstånd. Hans tidiga verk uppvisar en stor kunskap om och amerikanisering av den absurda teatern som nådde sin topp genom verk av europeiska dramatiker som Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett och Eugène Ionesco.

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.