Richard Greenberg

Richard Greenberg (born 1958) is an American playwright. He is the author of over 25 plays including eight South Coast Repertory world premieres: Our Mother's Brief Affair, The Injured Party, The Violet Hour, Everett Beekin, Hurrah at Last, Three Days of Rain (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, Pulitzer Prize finalist, Olivier, Drama Desk and Hull-Warriner nominations), Night and Her Stars and The Extra Man. His play, Take Me Out, traveled from London to New York in the first co-production of the Donmar Warehouse and The Public Theater, and transferred to Broadway in early 2003 where it won the Tony Award for Best Play. His other plays include The Dazzle (Outer Critics Circle Award, Lucille Lortel and John Gassner nominations), The American Plan, Life Under Water and The Author’s Voice. Recently, his adaptation of August Strindberg’s Dance of Death could be seen on Broadway, starring Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren and David Strathairn. He is a winner of the Oppenheimer Award and the first winner of the PEN/Laura Pels Award for a playwright in mid-career.

Richard Greenberg grew up in East Meadow, New York, a middle-class Long Island town in Nassau County, east of New York City. He graduated from East Meadow High School in 1976. Greenberg graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, where he roomed with future Harvard economics professor Greg Mankiw. He attended Harvard for graduate work in English, and was accepted into Yale's playwriting program.

Awards

• Tony Award, Best Play (Take Me Out), 2003
• New York Drama Critics Circle Award
• Drama Desk Award
• Lucille Lortel Award
• Oppenheimer Award
• PEN/Laura Pels Award
• Pulitzer Prize (finalist)

Plays

• The Bloodletters, 1984
• Life Under Water, 1985
• Vanishing Act, 1986
• The Author's Voice, 1987
• The Hunger Artist, 1987
• The Maderati, 1987
• Eastern Standard, 1988
• Neptune's Hips, 1988
• The American Plan, 1990
• The Extra Man, 1991
• Jenny Keeps Talking, 1992
• Pal Joey, revised book, 1992
• Night And Her Stars, 1997
• Three Days of Rain, 1998
• Hurrah at Last, 1998
• The Dazzle, 2000
• Everett Beekin, 2000
• Take Me Out, 2002
• The Dance of Death, 2003
• The Violet Hour, 2003
• A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, 2005
• Bal Masque, 2006
• The Well-Appointed Room, 2006
• The House in Town, 2006
• The Injured Party, 2008
• The American Plan, 2009
• Our Mother's Brief Affair, 2009

External links

• Everett Beekin at South Coast Repertory
• Richard Greenberg - Downstage Center interview at American Theatre Wing.org
• Our Mother's Brief Affair - review

Sources

• Doollee.com biography
• Playbill.com on The Violet Hour
• The Old Globe, San Diego
• Culturevulture.net, review of Take Me Out
• Internet Theatre Database - Richard Greenberg