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Edward Albee
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Edward Albee
was born on March 12, 1928, and began writing plays 30 years later.
His plays include The Zoo Story
(1958), The Death of Bessie Smith (1959), The Sandbox (1959), The American Dream (1960), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961-62, Tony Award), Tiny Alice
(1964), A Delicate Balance (1966, Pulitzer Prize; 1996, Tony Award), All Over
(1971), Seascape (1974, Pulitzer Prize), Listening (1975), Counting the Ways
(1975), The Lady From Dubuque (1977-78), The Man Who Had Three Arms (1981), Finding the Sun (1982), Marriage Play (1986-87), Three Tall Women (1991,
Pulitzer Prize), Fragments (1993), The Play About the Baby (1997), The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia? (2000, 2002 Tony Award), Occupant (2001), and Peter and Jerry
(Act 1, Homelife; Act 2, The Zoo Story) (2004).
Albee is a member of the
Dramatists Guild Council, and President of The Edward F. Albee Foundation. Mr.
Albee was awarded the Gold Medal in Drama from the American
Academy and Institute of Arts
and Letters in 1980. In 1996 received
the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts. In 2005, he was awarded a Lifetime
Achievement Tony Award.
Listen to Edward Albee's remarks on Federico Garcia Lorca at State of Emergency.
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