John Patrick Shanley

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John Patrick Shanley
Born 3 October 1950 (1950-10-03) (age 58) The Bronx, New York, USA Occupation Playwright and Screenwriter Nationality United States Alma mater New York University Spouse Jayne Haynes
Information
Debut works	Welcome to the Moon (1982) Women of Manhattan (1986)
Magnum opus	Doubt: A Parable (2004)
Awards	Academy Award (1988), Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2005), Tony Award (2005)

John Patrick Shanley (born 3 October 1950) is an American playwright. It is rumored that he insists in his contract that not a single word can be changed in the screenplays that he writes, but Shanley has denied that this rumor is true.^[1]

Contents 1 Biography 2 Work 2.1 Stage 2.2 Filmography 3 Awards and nominations 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Biography

Shanley was born in The Bronx, New York City, to a telephone operator mother and a meat-packer father.^[2] He is a graduate of New York University.

For his script for the 1987 film, Moonstruck, Shanley won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.

In 1990, Shanley directed his script of Joe Versus the Volcano. Shanley also wrote two songs for the movie: "Marooned Without You" and "The Cowboy Song."

In 2004 Shanley was inducted into the Bronx Walk of Fame.

In 2005, Shanley's play Doubt: A Parable was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Drama Desk Award and Tony Award for Best Play. Doubt: A Parable, is featured in The Fourth Wall, a book of photographs by Amy Arbus in which Shanley also wrote the foreword.

In 2008, Shanley directed a film version of Doubt starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams.

[edit] Work

[edit] Stage Welcome to the Moon (1982) Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (1983) Savage In Limbo (1984) The Dreamer Examines His Pillow (1985) Italian American Reconciliation (1986) Women of Manhattan (1986) All For Charity (1987) Italian American Reconciliation (1988) The Big Funk (1990) Beggars in the House of Plenty (1991) What Is This Everything? (1992) Kissing Christine (1995) Missing Marisa (1995) Four Dogs and a Bone (1993) The Wild Goose (1995) Psychopathia Sexualis (1998) Where's My Money? (2001) Cellini (2001) Dirty Story (2003) Doubt: A Parable (2004) Sailor's Song (2004) Defiance (2005) Romantic Poetry (2007) - cowritten with Henry Krieger

[edit] Filmography Moonstruck (1987) Five Corners (1987) The January Man (1989) Joe Versus the Volcano (1990; directed by Shanley) Alive (1993) We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993) Congo (1995) Live From Baghdad (2002) (TV, Emmy nomination) The Waltz of the Tulips (2006) Doubt (2008; directed by Shanley and adapted from his play of the same title)

[edit] Awards and nominations

Awards

• 1988 Academy Award for Best Screenplay – Moonstruck
• 2005 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play – Doubt: A Parable
• 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama – Doubt: A Parable
• 2005 Tony Award for Best Play – Doubt: A Parable
• 2005 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play – Doubt: A Parable
• 2005 Drama Critics' Circle Award – Doubt: A Parable
• 2005 Obie Award for Playwriting – Doubt: A Parable

Nominations

• 2003 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, or Dramatic Special – Live from Baghdad
• 2005 Drama Desk Award Outstanding New Play – Sailor's Song
• 2008 Golden Globe for Best Screenplay – Doubt
• 2008 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay – Doubt
• 2008 Critics' Choice Award for Writer – Doubt

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• John Patrick Shanley at the Internet Broadway Database
• John Patrick Shanley at the Internet Movie Database
• John Patrick Shanley at the Internet off-Broadway Database
• MovieMaker

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