Richard Greenberg

Richard Greenberg (1958-) is a Tony Award winning American playwright.

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)

Richard Greenberg grew up in East Meadow, New York, a middle-class Long Island town in Nassau County, east of New York City. He attended and graduated from East Meadow High School in 1976.

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, 1992
• Night And Her Stars, 1997
• Three Days of Rain, 1998
• Take Me Out, 2002
• The Dance of Death, 2003
• The Violet Hour, 2003
• A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, 2004
• Bal Masque, 2006
• The House in Town, 2006

Sources

• Doollee.com biography
• Playbill.com on The Violet Hour
• The Old Globe, San Diego
• culturevulture.net review of Take Me Out