Edward Albee (1928–2016)
Forfatter af Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Edward Albee was born in Virginia on March 12, 1928. His first produced play, The Zoo Story, opened in Berlin in 1959 before playing at the Provincetown Playhouse in Greenwich Village the following year. In 1960, it won the Vernon Rice Memorial Award. In 1962, his Broadway debut, Who's Afraid of vis mere Virginia Woolf?, won a Tony Award for best play. It was adapted into a film starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in 1966. He wrote about 30 plays during his lifetime including The Sandbox, The American Dream, The Death of Bessie Smith, All Over, and The Play About the Baby. He won the Pulitzer Prize three times for A Delicate Balance in 1966, Seascape in 1975, and Three Tall Women in 1991. Three Tall Women also received Best Play awards from the New York Drama Critics Circle and Outer Critics Circle. He won another Tony Award for The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? and a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award in 2005. He had died after a short illness on September 16, 2016 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Two Plays by Edward Albee: The Sand Box and The Death of Bessie Smith (with Fam and Yam) (1959) 82 eksemplarer
The Zoo Story, The Death of Bessie Smith, The Sandbox: Three Plays, Introduced by the Author (1960) 77 eksemplarer
The American Dream, The Sandbox, The Death of Bessie Smith, Fam and Yam - Acting Edition (1767) 20 eksemplarer
Het verhaal van de dierentuin ; De dood van Bessie Smith ; De droom van Amerika (1982) 8 eksemplarer
The Plays: Tiny Alice, a Delicate Balance, Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (Plays, Volume 2) (1965) 8 eksemplarer
By Edward Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 4 eksemplarer
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 4 eksemplarer
The Plays Volume 1: The Zoo Story, The Death of Bessie Smith, The Sandbox, The American Dream (1981) 3 eksemplarer
63, Dream Palace and Other Stories 2 eksemplarer
Il sogno americano e altre commedie 2 eksemplarer
Marina 2 eksemplarer
Drámák 2 eksemplarer
Edward Albee's other eye : sculptural objects from the Edward Albee and Edward F. Albee Foundation collections,… 2 eksemplarer
Selections from the Edward Albee collection : Farrell Brickhouse, Stephen Buckley, DeWitt Godfrey, [etc.]... (1988) 2 eksemplarer
Teatro 2 eksemplarer
A Delicate Balance (Playbill) [Vol 4 No 4] 1 eksemplar
Zu Hause im Zoo (At Home at the Zoo) 1 eksemplar
Goat, The ; or "Who Is Sylvia?" 1 eksemplar
Nine Artists from 14 Harrison Street: Lynn Hansell, Yukimura Konishi, John Mendelsohn, Rima Mardoyan-Smyth, Richard… (1993) 1 eksemplar
THREE TALL WOMAN 1 eksemplar
penguin plays who's afraid of virgina woolf 1 eksemplar
Edward Albee's Seascape (Alley Theatre - Houston - October 14- November 13, 2022) Playbill 1 eksemplar
Tiny Alice: Billy Rose Theatre 1 eksemplar
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1 eksemplar
Quem Tem Medo de Virgínia Woolf ? - Teatro Vivo 1 eksemplar
The Plays: Volume Four: Everything in the Garden, Malcolm, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1982) 1 eksemplar
The American dream, and The sandbox 1 eksemplar
Alles im Garten. Alles Vorbei. Zwei Stücke 1 eksemplar
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf- NYC Broadway Playbill 1963- Billy Rose Theatre- Uta Hagen Arthur Hill Ben Piazza Elaine… (1963) 1 eksemplar
Dramen 1 eksemplar
The Zoo Story and The American Dream 1 eksemplar
Ισορροπία τρόμου 1 eksemplar
Πρόσωπο με πρόσωπο 1 eksemplar
Θέσεις για τον Παν. Κανελλόπουλο 1 eksemplar
Λαογραφία 1 eksemplar
Rare WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF play Edward Albee - 1st/BC Fireside 1963 - film (1777) 1 eksemplar
Wer Hat Angst Vor Virginia Woolf...? 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 925 eksemplarer
The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett: Volume III of The Grove Centenary Editions (Works of Samuel Beckett the Grove… (2006) — Introduktion — 135 eksemplarer
Miller Plays 1: All My Sons / Death of a Salesman / The Crucible / A Memory of Two Mondays / A View from the Bridge (1988) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 109 eksemplarer
Absurd Drama: Amedee, Professor Taranne, The Two Executioners, The Zoo Story (1965) — Bidragyder — 104 eksemplarer
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Bidragyder — 72 eksemplarer
Hamptons Bohemia: Two Centuries of Artists and Writers on the Beach (2002) — Forord — 30 eksemplarer
Shades of Love: Photographs Inspired by the Poems of C. P. Cavafy (2011) — Forord, nogle udgaver — 11 eksemplarer
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre, Volume 4 — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
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- Juridisk navn
- Albee, Edward Franklin, III
- Fødselsdato
- 1928-03-12
- Dødsdag
- 2016-09-16
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- VS
- Fødested
- Washington, D.C., VS
- Dødssted
- Montauk, New York, USA
- Bopæl
- New York, New York, VS
Greenwich Village, New York, VS
Larchmont, New York, VS - Uddannelse
- Trinity College of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Clinton High School (then-Lawrenceville School), New Jersey, USA
Valley Forge Military Academy, Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA
The Choate School, Wallingford, Connecticut, USA - Erhverv
- playwright
distinguished professor
essayist - Organisationer
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
Dramatists Guild Council
Edward F. Albee Foundation, Inc.
University of Houston - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama (1999)
National Medal of Arts (1996)
Kennedy Center Honors (1996)
Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement (2005)
Gold Medal in Drama, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1980)
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (2003) - Agent
- William Morris Agency
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