John Guare

American playwright and screenwriter (born 1938)

John Guare

Guare at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2009

Born|  (1938-02-05) February 5, 1938 (age 85)
Jackson Heights, Queens, New York, U.S.
Occupation| Playwright
Education| Georgetown University (BA)
Yale University (MFA)
Period| 1964–present
Notable works| The House of Blue Leaves; Six Degrees of Separation
Spouse| Adele Chatfield-Taylor

John Guare (/ɡɛr/ GERR;; born February 5, 1938) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He is best known as the author of The House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation.

## Early life[edit]

He was raised in Jackson Heights, Queens.[1] In 1949, his father suffered a heart attack and subsequently moved the family to Ellenville, New York while he recovered.[2] His father's relatives lived there, making it an idyllic experience for him. Guare did not regularly attend school in Ellenville because the school's daily practices were not in keeping with the recommendations of the Catholic Church, causing his father to suspect the school had communist leanings. Instead of attending school, Guare was assigned home study and took exams intermittently, which allowed him time to go to the movies and see all the hits of the time.[2] This had a lasting influence on Guare and his career.

He attended Georgetown University and the Yale School of Drama, graduating in 1962 with a M.F.A in Playwriting.[2][1] Under the direction of Georgetown's Donn B. Murphy, his play The Toadstool Boy, about a country singer's quest for fame, won first place in the District of Columbia Recreation Department's One-Act-Play competition.[2] In 1960, the Mask and Bauble presented The Thirties Girl, a musical for which Guare did the book, much of the music and the lyrics,[2] again under Murphy's tutelage. Set in Hollywood's turbulent 1920s, it deals with the dethronement of a reigning diva by a fresh-faced starlet.

## Career[edit]

Guare's early plays, mostly comic one-acts exhibiting a flair for the absurd, include To Wally Pantoni, We Leave a Credenza, produced at Caffe Cino in 1965[2] and Muzeeka (1968).[3]

Cop-Out premiered on Broadway at the Cort Theatre on April 7, 1969 and closed on April 12, 1969, as part of two one-act plays, including Home Fires. Cop-Out starred Linda Lavin and Ron Leibman.[4][5]

The House of Blue Leaves, a domestic drama by turns wildly comic and despairingly poignant, premiered Off-Broadway in 1971 at the Truck and Warehouse Theatre. It was revived Off-Broadway at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in 1986 before transferring to Broadway later in 1986.[6] The play was revived on Broadway in 2011, starring Ben Stiller, whose mother, Anne Meara, had appeared in the 1971 production.[7] According to Marilyn Stasio writing in Variety the play "sets the bar for smart comic lunacy."[8]

Chaucer in Rome, "said to be a sequel of sorts to ... 'The House of Blue Leaves' and includ[ing] the son of one of the earlier play's characters"[9] received its world premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in July 1999[10] and was produced Off-Broadway in 2001 at Lincoln Center Theater's Newhouse Theater.[11]

Later plays include Marco Polo Sings a Solo, produced at the Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival in January to March 1977, with a cast that featured Joel Grey, Anne Jackson, Madeline Kahn, and Sigourney Weaver. Bosoms and Neglect was produced on Broadway in 1979, and revived Off-Broadway in 1998 by the Signature Theatre Company. Moon Over Miami was produced at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 1987 and then at the Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven in February 1989.[12]

Guare's cycle of plays on nineteenth-century America are: Gardenia (1982)[13] Lydie Breeze (1982)[14] and Women and Water (1985).[15] The so-called Lydie Breeze series, also called the "Nantucket" series, "follows a group of idealistic 19th century characters and their attempts to create a utopian society. "[16]

Six Degrees of Separation was originally produced Off-Broadway by Lincoln Center Theater at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater in June 1990.[17] Six Degrees of Separation is an intricately plotted comedy of manners about an African-American confidence man who poses as the son of film star Sidney Poitier. It has been the most highly praised and widely produced of Guare's full-length plays.[citation needed] It was made into a film in 1993, starring Stockard Channing and Will Smith.[18]

Four Baboons Adoring the Sun was presented on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater from February 22, 1992 to April 19, 1992, and was nominated for the 1992 Tony Award, Best Play.[19]

Lake Hollywood (1999) and A Few Stout Individuals (2002) both received their world premieres at Signature Theatre. A Few Stout Individuals is set in nineteenth century America, with a cast of characters that includes Ulysses S. Grant, Mark Twain, soprano Adelina Patti and the Emperor and Empress of Japan.[20]

Guare has also been involved with musical theatre. His libretto with Mel Shapiro for the musical Two Gentlemen of Verona was a success when it premiered in 1971 and was revived in 2005 at the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park. It won the two men the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical. He wrote the songs for Landscape of the Body. [21] Guare wrote narration for Psyche, a tone poem by César Franck, which premiered at Avery Fisher Hall in October 1997, conducted by Kurt Masur with the New York Philharmonic.[22]

He revised the book (uncredited) of the Cole Porter musical comedy Kiss Me, Kate for its 1999 Broadway revival.[23] He wrote the book for the musical Sweet Smell of Success, which premiered on Broadway in 2002, for which he received a 2002 Tony Award nomination, Book of a Musical.[24]

His play A Free Man of Color was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer citation said: "An audacious play spread across a large historical canvas, dealing with serious subjects while retaining a playful intellectual buoyancy."[25]

Guare wrote the screenplay for Louis Malle's film Atlantic City (1980), for which he was nominated for an Oscar.[26]

### Other activities[edit]

He was an original member in 1965 of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut[27] and Resident Playwright at the New York Shakespeare Festival, during which time he wrote Landscape of the Body, Rich and Famous, and Marco Polo Sings a Solo.[27]

He is a council member of the Dramatists Guild.[28]

He is Co-Executive Editor of the Lincoln Center Theater Review,[29] which he founded in 1987.[30] He co-produces the New Plays Reading Room Series at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts and teaches in the Playwriting department at the Yale School of Drama.[citation needed]

### Critical acclaim[edit]

In his foreword to a collection of Guare's plays, Louis Malle wrote:

> Guare practices a humor that is synonymous with lucidity, exploding genre and clichés, taking us to the core of human suffering: the awareness of corruption in our own bodies, death circling in. We try to fight it all by creating various mythologies, and it is Guare's peculiar aptitude for exposing these grandiose lies of ours that makes his work so magical.[31]

Gregory Mosher, formerly the artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater, said that Guare, "along with David Mamet, Sam Shepard and a handful of other dramatists, reshaped the face of contemporary American theater over the past quarter century."[32]

## Works[edit]

All plays for the stage unless otherwise noted.

* 1971: The House of Blue Leaves
* 1971: Two Gentlemen of Verona
* 1971: Taking Off (screenplay)
* 1974: Rich and Famous
* 1977: Landscape of the Body
* 1977: Marco Polo Sings a Solo – Off-Broadway[33][34]
* 1979: Bosoms and Neglect
* 1980: Atlantic City (screenplay)
* 1981: In Fireworks Lie Secret Codes
* 1982: Lydie Breeze
* 1982: Gardenia
* 1985: Women and Water
* 1986: The Race to Urga
* 1990: Six Degrees of Separation
* 1992: Four Baboons Adoring the Sun – Broadway (Vivian Beaumont Theatre)[19]
* 1999: Lake Hollywood – Off-Broadway[35]
* 2001: Chaucer in Rome
* 2002: A Few Stout Individuals
* 2010: A Free Man of Color – Broadway (Vivian Beaumont Theater)[36]
* 2011: Erased/Elżbieta
* 2012: Are You There, McPhee? – McCarter Theatre[37]
* 2013: 3 Kinds of Exile – Off-Broadway[38]
* 2014: Between (short play)
* 2019: Nantucket Sleigh Ride \- Off-Broadway (Lincoln Center Newhouse) (revised version of Are You There, McPhee?)[39]

## Awards and honors[edit]

* Muzeeka won an Obie for Distinguished Play in 1968.[40]
* The House of Blue Leaves won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play in 1971 and the 1971 Obie Award, Best American Play; it won four Tony Awards for its 1986 revival at Lincoln Center Theater.[41][42]
* Two Gentlemen of Verona won both the Tony Award and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical in 1972. Guare also received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics and Book.[43][44]
* Six Degrees of Separation won an Obie Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and London's Olivier Award for Best Play; it was a finalist for the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.[25]
* Guare received the Award of Merit in 1981 from the American Academy of Arts and Letters [45] for his plays The House of Blue Leaves, Rich and Famous, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, Landscape of the Body and Bosoms and Neglect. He received the Gold Medal in 2004.[46]
* In 1989, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters elected him a member.[47]
* In 1993, he was elected to the American Theater Hall of Fame.[48]
* In 1996, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.[49]
* The Signature Theatre honored him with a season 1998 – 1999.[50]
* In 2003, he received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a Master American Dramatist.[51]
* In 2005, Guare was awarded the  Obie Award for Sustained Achievement[52]
* Guare received an honorary Master of Fine Arts degree from A.C.T. Conservatory, San Francisco, in May 2009.[53]
* Guare received the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award from the Dramatists Guild of America, in 2014.[54]

## Personal life[edit]

He is married to Adele Chatfield-Taylor, an historic preservationist; she was President and CEO of the American Academy in Rome. They split their time between New York City, Long Island and the historic village of Waterford, Virginia where his wife grew up.[27]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b Druckman, Stephen. "THEATER; In Guare's Art, Zero Degrees of Separation" The New York Times, April 11, 1999
2. ^ a b c d e f Plunka, Gene A., "Chapter 1", The Black Comedy of John Guare, University of Delaware Press, 2002, ISBN 0874137632, pp 26–27, 29
3. ^ Muzeeka Archived 2015-11-17 at the Wayback Machine lortel.org, accessed November 14, 2015
4. ^ "'Cop-out' Broadway" playbillvault.com, accessed November 15, 2015
5. ^ Simonson, Robert. "FRINGE WATCH: John Guare's 'Cop-Out' Gets Rare Staging" Playbill, August 1, 2000
6. ^ "'The House of Blue Leaves' Broadway 1986" playbillvault.com, accessed November 16, 2015
7. ^ Gans, Andrew. "'House of Blue Leaves' Revival, With Ben Stiller and Edie Falco, Begins on Broadway April 4" Archived 2011-04-17 at the Wayback Machine playbill.com, April 4, 2011
8. ^ Stasio, Marilyn. "Review: 'The House of Blue Leaves'" Variety, April 25, 2011
9. ^ Simonson, Robert. "Guare's 'Chaucer in Rome' Opens at Lincoln Center Theater, June 7" Playbill, June 7, 2001
10. ^ Simonson, Robert. "John Guare's 'Chaucer in Rome' Ends Williamstown Run Aug. 8" Playbill, August 6, 1999
11. ^ " Chaucer in Rome Listing" lct.org, accessed June 30, 2015
12. ^ Curry, Jane Kathleen. John Guare: A Research and Production Sourcebook, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 0313312524, p. 3, 178
13. ^ Rich, Frank. "Stage. Guare's 'Gardenia' Antedates His 'Lydie'" New York Times, April 29, 1982
14. ^ Rich, Frank. "Stage: Guare's 'Lydie Breeze'" New York Times, February 26, 1982
15. ^ Gussow, Mel. "Stage. Guare Chronicle 'Women and Water'" New York Times, December 8, 1985
16. ^ Haun, Harry; Lefkowitz, David; and Simonson, Ribert. "NY's Signature Opens OB Season with a Guare Solo, Sept. 27-Oct. 25" Playbill, September 26, 1998
17. ^ "'Six Degrees of Separation' 1990" Archived 2015-11-17 at the Wayback Machine lortel.org, accessed November 16, 2015
18. ^ "'Six Degrees Of Separation' Film Overview" tcm.com, accessed November 16, 2015
19. ^ a b "'Four Baboons Adoring the Sun' Broadway" playbillvault.com, accessed November 15, 2015
20. ^ Jones, Kenneth. "John Guare's Latest, 'A Few Stout Individuals', Opens Off-Bway May 12" Playbill, May 12, 2002
21. ^ Brantley, Ben. "Gold Lamé Dreams Dashed by Polyester Reality in 'Landscape of the Body'" New York Times, April 17, 2006
22. ^ TommasIni, Anthoiny. "Classical Music. Spelling Out The Musical Tale of 'Psyche'" New York Times, October 5, 1997
23. ^ Jones, Kenneth. "The Stars Fill the Sky: 'Kiss Me, Kate' Revival Opens on Bway Nov. 18" Playbill, November 18, 1999
24. ^ "'Sweet Smell of Success' Broadway" Archived 2015-09-27 at the Wayback Machine playbillvault.com, accessed November 14, 2015
25. ^ a b "Pulitzer Prize for Drama" pulitzer.org, accessed November 15, 2015
26. ^ Atlantic City tcm.com, accessed November 14, 2015
27. ^ a b c Cattaneo, Anne. "John Guare, The Art of Theater No. 9. Interview" The Paris Review, Winter 1992, accessed November 14, 2015
28. ^ "Membership Profile Information. John Guare" Archived 2015-11-17 at the Wayback Machine dramatistsguild.com, accessed November 16, 2015
29. ^ "Magazine: LCT Review" lct.org, accessed November 15, 2015
30. ^ "Events, Upcoming January 11, 2016" thesegalcenter.org, accessed November 15, 2015
31. ^ John Guare. Three Exposures. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. ISBN 9780151901784. Page viii.
32. ^ Herman, Jan. "Writer's Gift Measured by 'Degrees'" Los Angeles Times, November 2, 1996
33. ^ Sommer, Elyse. "A CurtainUp Review. 'Marco Polo Sings a Solo'" curtainup.com, September 28, 1998
34. ^ "'Marco Polo Sings a Solo' 1977" Archived 2015-02-13 at the Wayback Machine lortel.org
35. ^ Sommer, Elyse. "A CurtainUp Review. 'Lake Hollywood'" CurtainUp, May 6, 1999
36. ^ "'A Free Man of Color' Broadway" Archived 2015-11-17 at the Wayback Machine playbillvault.com, accessed November 15, 2015
37. ^ Gans, Andrew. "'Private Lives' Paul Gross Will Star in World Premiere of John Guare's' Are You There, McPhee?'" Playbill, April 12, 2012
38. ^ Hetrick, Adam. "John Guare Makes Acting Debut in His New Play '3 Kinds of Exile', Beginning May 15 at the Atlantic" Playbill, May 15, 2013
39. ^ Fierberg, Ruthie. " 'Nantucket Sleigh Ride' Opens Off-Broadway March 18" playbill, March 18, 2019
40. ^ "Obies Search" villagevoice.com, accessed November 14, 2015
41. ^ "'The House of Blue Leaves' 1971" Archived 2015-11-17 at the Wayback Machine lortel.org, accessed November 15, 2015
42. ^ "'The House of Blue Leaves' Broadway 1986" playbillvault.com, accessed November 15, 2015
43. ^ "'Two Gentlemen of Verona' Awards" ibdb.com, accessed November 15, 2015
44. ^ "'Two Gentlemen of Verona' Broadway Production" playbillvault.com, accessed November 15, 2015
45. ^ "Award of Merit" Archived 2016-01-31 at the Wayback Machine artsandletters.org, accessed November 15, 2015
46. ^ "Awards" Archived 2010-09-11 at the Wayback Machine artsandletters.org, accessed November 14, 2015
47. ^ "Christo, Guare Elected to Institute" Los Angeles Times, March 3, 1989
48. ^ "Who's in the Theatre Hall of Fame" Playbill, June 12, 1996
49. ^ "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.
50. ^ Viagas, Robert and Lefkowitz, David. "NY's Signature Will Devote 1998–99 Season to John Guare" Playbill, August 5, 1998, retrieved December 25, 2017
51. ^ Hernandez, Ernio. "Playwrights John Guare and Craig Lucas Win Annual PEN/ Laura Pels Award for Drama" Playbill, May 5, 2003
52. ^ "05".
53. ^ "A.C.T. Grants Honorary MFA Degrees To Tracy Chapman & John Guare 5/11" broadwayworld.com, May 11, 2009
54. ^ Purcell, Carey. "John Guare, Christopher Durang and More Will Be Honored at Dramatists Guild of America Awards" Playbill, February 11, 2014

## External links[edit]

* John Guare at the Internet Broadway Database
* John Guare at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
* Anne Cattaneo (Winter 1992). "John Guare, The Art of Theater No. 9". The Paris Review. Winter 1992 (125).
* John Guare at IMDb
* Biography at theatredatabase.com
* John Guare with poster for his Caffe Cino production
* John Guare Papers at Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Awards for John Guare

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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical

1970–1975|

* George Furth (1970)
* Burt Shevelove (1971)
* John Guare and Mel Shapiro (1972)
* Hugh Wheeler (1973)
* Hugh Wheeler (1974)
* No Award (1975)

1976–2000|

* James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante (1976)
* Thomas Meehan (1977)
* Hugh Wheeler (1979)
* No Awards (1980–1983)
* James Lapine (1984)
* Jerry Colker (1985)
* Rupert Holmes (1986)
* L. Arthur Rose, Douglas Furber, Stephen Fry, and Mike Ockrent (1987)
* James Lapine (1988)
* Larry Gelbart (1990)
* Marsha Norman (1991)
* George C. Wolfe (1992)
* James Lapine (1994)
* Jonathan Larson (1996)
* Terrence McNally (1998)
* Alfred Uhry (1999)
* No Award (2000)

2001–present|

* Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan (2001)
* John Lahr and Elaine Stritch (2002)
* Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan (2003)
* Winnie Holzman (2004)
* Rachel Sheinkin (2005)
* Bob Martin and Don McKellar (2006)
* Rupert Holmes and Peter Stone (2007)
* Douglas Carter Beane (2008)
* Lee Hall (2009)
* Alex Timbers (2010)
* Adam Mathias (2011)
* Joe DiPietro (2012)
* Dennis Kelly (2013)
* Robert L. Freedman (2014)
* Lin-Manuel Miranda (2015)
* John Caird (2016)
* Irene Sankoff and David Hein (2017)
* Tina Fey (2018)
* Robert Horn (2019)
* Michael R. Jackson (2020)
* No Award (2021)
* Bruce Sussman (2022)
* Matthew Lopez and Amber Ruffin (2023)

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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics

1969–1975|

* Fred Ebb (1969)
* Stephen Sondheim / Bertolt Brecht (1970)
* Stephen Sondheim (1971)
* John Guare (1972)
* Stephen Sondheim (1973)
* Al Carmines (1974)
* Charlie Smalls (1975)

1976–2000|

* Edward Kleban (1976)
* Martin Charnin (1977)
* Carol Hall (1978)
* Stephen Sondheim (1979)
* Tim Rice (1980)
* Stephen Sondheim / Maury Yeston (1982)
* Howard Ashman (1983)
* Stephen Sondheim (1984)
* Roger Miller (1985)
* Stephen Sondheim (1988)
* David Zippel (1990)
* William Finn (1991)
* Susan Birkenhead (1992)
* Denis Markell and Douglas Bernstein (1993)
* Stephen Sondheim (1994)
* Jonathan Larson (1996)
* Gerard Alessandrini (1997)
* Lynn Ahrens (1998)
* Gerard Alessandrini (1999)
* Stephen Sondheim (2000)

2001–present|

* Mel Brooks (2001)
* Jason Robert Brown (2002)
* Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman (2003)
* Stephen Schwartz (2004)
* Eric Idle (2005)
* Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison (2006)
* Steven Sater (2007)
* Stew (2008)
* Stephen Sondheim (2009)
* John Kander and Fred Ebb (2010)
* Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone (2011)
* Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová (2012)
* Tim Minchin (2013)
* Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak (2014)
* Lin-Manuel Miranda (2015)
* Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (2016)
* David Yazbek (2017)
* Peter Kellogg (2018)
* David Yazbek (2019)
* Michael R. Jackson (2020)
* No Award (2021)
* Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss (2022)
* Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman (2023)

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Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay

1975–2000|

* Joan Tewkesbury (1975)
* Paddy Chayefsky (1976)
* Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman (1977)
* Paul Mazursky (1978)
* Robert Benton (1979)
* John Sayles (1980)
* John Guare (1981)
* Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal (1982)
* James L. Brooks (1983)
* Peter Shaffer (1984)
* Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown and Tom Stoppard (1985)
* Woody Allen (1986)
* John Boorman (1987)
* Ron Shelton (1988)
* Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost (1989)
* Nicholas Kazan (1990)
* James Toback (1991)
* David Webb Peoples (1992)
* Jane Campion (1993)
* Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary (1994)
* Emma Thompson (1995)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (1996)
* Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997)
* Warren Beatty and Jeremy Pikser (1998)
* Charlie Kaufman (1999)
* Kenneth Lonergan (2000)

2001–present|

* Christopher Nolan (2001)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2002)
* Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (2003)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
* Noah Baumbach / Dan Futterman (2005)
* Peter Morgan (2006)
* Tamara Jenkins (2007)
* Mike Leigh (2008)
* Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (2009)
* Aaron Sorkin (2010)
* Asghar Farhadi (2011)
* Chris Terrio (2012)
* Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy (2013)
* Wes Anderson (2014)
* Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015)
* Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou (2016)
* Jordan Peele (2017)
* Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty (2018)
* Noah Baumbach (2019)
* Emerald Fennell (2020)
* Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe (2021)
* Todd Field (2022)
* Andrew Haigh (2023)

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National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay

1967–2000|

* David Newman and Robert Benton (1967)
* John Cassavetes (1968)
* Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker (1969)
* Éric Rohmer (1970)
* Penelope Gilliatt (1971)
* Ingmar Bergman (1972)
* George Lucas, Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck (1973)
* Ingmar Bergman (1974)
* Robert Towne and Warren Beatty (1975)
* Alain Tanner and John Berger (1976)
* Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman (1977)
* Paul Mazursky (1978)
* Steve Tesich (1979)
* Bo Goldman (1980)
* John Guare (1981)
* Murray Schisgal and Larry Gelbart (1982)
* Bill Forsyth (1983)
* Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel and Bruce Jay Friedman (1984)
* Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson (1985)
* Hanif Kureishi (1986)
* John Boorman (1987)
* Ron Shelton (1988)
* Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost (1989)
* Charles Burnett (1990)
* David Cronenberg (1991)
* David Webb Peoples (1992)
* Jane Campion (1993)
* Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary (1994)
* Amy Heckerling (1995)
* Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson (1996)
* Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997)
* Scott Frank (1998)
* Charlie Kaufman (1999)
* Kenneth Lonergan (2000)

2001–present|

* Julian Fellowes (2001)
* Ronald Harwood (2002)
* Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (2003)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
* Noah Baumbach (2005)
* Peter Morgan (2006)
* Tamara Jenkins (2007)
* Mike Leigh (2008)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2009)
* Aaron Sorkin (2010)
* Asghar Farhadi (2011)
* Tony Kushner (2012)
* Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy (2013)
* Wes Anderson (2014)
* Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015)
* Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
* Greta Gerwig (2017)
* Armando Iannucci, David Schneider and Ian Martin (2018)
* Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won (2019)
* Eliza Hittman (2020)
* Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe (2021)
* Todd Field (2022)
* Samy Burch (2023)

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New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay

1956–1975|

* James Poe, John Farrow and S. J. Perelman (1956)
* No Award (1957)
* Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith (1958)
* Wendell Mayes (1959)
* I. A. L. Diamond and Billy Wilder (1960)
* Abby Mann (1961)
* No Award (1962)
* Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr. (1963)
* Harold Pinter (1964)
* No Award (1965)
* Robert Bolt (1966)
* David Newman and Robert Benton (1967)
* Lorenzo Semple Jr. (1968)
* Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker (1969)
* Éric Rohmer (1970)
* Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich / Penelope Gilliatt (1971)
* Ingmar Bergman (1972)
* George Lucas, Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck (1973)
* Ingmar Bergman (1974)
* François Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman and Jean Gruault (1975)

1976–2000|

* Paddy Chayefsky (1976)
* Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman (1977)
* Paul Mazursky (1978)
* Steve Tesich (1979)
* Bo Goldman (1980)
* John Guare (1981)
* Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal (1982)
* Bill Forsyth (1983)
* Robert Benton (1984)
* Woody Allen (1985)
* Hanif Kureishi (1986)
* James L. Brooks (1987)
* Ron Shelton (1988)
* Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost (1989)
* Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1990)
* David Cronenberg (1991)
* Neil Jordan (1992)
* Jane Campion (1993)
* Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary (1994)
* Emma Thompson (1995)
* Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson (1996)
* Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997)
* Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard (1998)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (1999)
* Kenneth Lonergan (2000)

2001–present|

* Julian Fellowes (2001)
* Charlie and Donald Kaufman (2002)
* Craig Lucas (2003)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
* Noah Baumbach (2005)
* Peter Morgan (2006)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
* Jenny Lumet (2008)
* Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche (2009)
* Stuart Blumberg and Lisa Cholodenko (2010)
* Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin and Stan Chervin (2011)
* Tony Kushner (2012)
* Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell (2013)
* Wes Anderson (2014)
* Phyllis Nagy (2015)
* Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2017)
* Paul Schrader (2018)
* Quentin Tarantino (2019)
* Eliza Hittman (2020)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2021)
* Martin McDonagh (2022)
* Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik (2023)

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Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical

1950–1975|

* South Pacific by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan (1950)
* Hello, Dolly! by Michael Stewart (1964)
* Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein (1965)
* Company by George Furth (1971)
* Two Gentlemen of Verona by John Guare and Mel Shapiro (1972)
* A Little Night Music by Hugh Wheeler (1973)
* Candide by Hugh Wheeler (1974)
* Shenandoah by James Lee Barrett, Peter Udell and Philip Rose (1975)

1976–2000|

* A Chorus Line by James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante (1976)
* Annie by Thomas Meehan (1977)
* On the Twentieth Century by Betty Comden and Adolph Green (1978)
* Sweeney Todd by Hugh Wheeler (1979)
* Evita by Tim Rice (1980)
* Woman of the Year by Peter Stone (1981)
* Dreamgirls by Tom Eyen (1982)
* Cats by T. S. Eliot (1983)
* La Cage aux Folles by Harvey Fierstein (1984)
* Big River by William Hauptman (1985)
* The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Rupert Holmes (1986)
* Les Misérables by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (1987)
* Into the Woods by James Lapine (1988)
* No Award (1989)
* City of Angels by Larry Gelbart (1990)
* The Secret Garden by Marsha Norman (1991)
* Falsettos by William Finn and James Lapine (1992)
* Kiss of the Spider Woman by Terrence McNally (1993)
* Passion by James Lapine (1994)
* Sunset Boulevard by Don Black and Christopher Hampton (1995)
* Rent by Jonathan Larson (1996)
* Titanic by Peter Stone (1997)
* Ragtime by Terrence McNally (1998)
* Parade by Alfred Uhry (1999)
* James Joyce's The Dead by Richard Nelson (2000)

2001–present|

* The Producers by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan (2001)
* Urinetown by Greg Kotis (2002)
* Hairspray by Thomas Meehan and Mark O'Donnell (2003)
* Avenue Q by Jeff Whitty (2004)
* The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by Rachel Sheinkin (2005)
* The Drowsy Chaperone by Bob Martin and Don McKellar (2006)
* Spring Awakening by Steven Sater (2007)
* Passing Strange by Stew (2008)
* Billy Elliot the Musical by Lee Hall (2009)
* Memphis by Joe DiPietro (2010)
* The Book of Mormon by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone (2011)
* Once by Enda Walsh (2012)
* Matilda the Musical by Dennis Kelly (2013)
* A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder by Robert L. Freedman (2014)
* Fun Home by Lisa Kron (2015)
* Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda (2016)
* Dear Evan Hansen by Steven Levenson (2017)
* The Band's Visit by Itamar Moses (2018)
* Tootsie by Robert Horn (2019)
* No Ceremony (2020)
* Jagged Little Pill by Diablo Cody (2021)
* A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson (2022)
* Kimberly Akimbo by David Lindsay-Abaire (2023)

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* CiNii

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* Deutsche Biographie

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