John Ford Noonan
John Ford Noonan is an American playwright. He has also written for theater, film and television, and he is an actor.[1] He was born in 1943 in Greenwich, Connecticut.[2] His father worked as a jazz musician, his brother, Tom Noonan, is an actor and writer.[3]
Author
In 1969, with a highly acclaimed Lincoln Center production of The Year Boston Won the Pennant, he won an Obie, a Theatre World and a Pulitzer nomination.[4][5] In the 1970’s his plays were produced by Joseph Papp at The Public Theatre, including Older People, Rainbows For Sale, Where Do We Go From Here?, Getting Through The Night, and All the Sad Protestants.[6] This was followed by Lazarus was a Lady,[7]Concerning the Effects of Trimethylchoride, Older People,[8] The Club Champion’s Widow, and A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, which was first produced at Astor Place Theatre in Greenwich Village in New York City, with Susan Sarandon and Eileen Brennan.[9] His play, Some Men Need Help, was originally produced in New York City at the 47th Street Theatre; it starred Philip Bosco and Treat Williams.[10] When It Comes Early was produced in 1997 at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City, starring Harris Yulin and Kathleen Chalfant.[11] He has written over 35 plays.
Noonan was inducted into the French Society of Composers and Authors in 1989.[12]
He has written for TV’s Comedy Zone in the early 1980s and St. Elsewhere for which he won the 1982 Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.
Actor
As an actor he has appeared on stage, notably in 1990 at the Actors’ Playhouse in New York, when he appeared in his own play, Talking Things Over with Chekhov, in which he played a character who is also a playwright, who comes home one night to find Anton Chekhov sitting in his rocking chair.[13] He has also appeared in a number of films, including Uncle Freddy (2008) God Has a Rap Sheet (2003), My Divorce (1997), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Adventures in Babysitting (1987), Forty Deuce (1982), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), and Septuagenarian Substitute Ball (1970). He also appeared in the TV series Bay State (1991).[14]
Plays
- All She Cares About Is The Yankees (1988)
- All the Sad Protestants
- The Club Champion's Widow (1978)
- Concerning The Effects Of Trimethylchloride (1971)
- A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking (1979)
- A Critic And His Wife (1997)
- Drowning Of Manhattan (1992)
- The Effects of Trimethylchloride (1972)
- Getting Through The Night (1976)
- Good-By And Keep Cold (1973)
- Green Mountain (1987)
- Hetrosexual Temperature In West Hollywood (1987)
- Lazarus Was A Lady (1970)
- Linger
- Listen To The Lions (1979)
- Mom Sells Twins For Two Beers (1987)
- Monday Night Varieties (1972)
- Music From Down the Hill (1993)
- My Daddy's Serious American Gift (1989)
- A Noonan Night (1973)
- Nothing But Bukowski (1987)
- Older People (1972)
- Pick Pack Pock Puck (1974)
- Rainbows For Sale (1971)
- Raunchy Dame In The Chines Raincoat (1987)
- Recent Developments In Southern Connecticut (1990)
- Sneaky Bit To Raise The Blind (1974)
- Some Men Need Help (1982)
- Spanish Confusion (1987)
- Stay Away A Little Closer (1990)
- Talking Things Over With Chekhov (1987)
- What Drove Me Back To Reconsidering My Father (1988)
- When It Comes Early (1995)
- Where Do We Go From Here? (1974)
- Why Can't You Be Him? (1987)
- The Year Boston Won The Pennant (1969)[15]
References
- ^ Spencer, Stuart. John Ford Noonan. Bomb. Issue 28. Summer 1989. [1]
- ^ Arkatov, Janice. A Catcher of the Wry : John Ford Noonan is still fielding emotions to help him develop insight into characters that populate his plays Los Angelese Times. 19 March 1989. [2]
- ^ Film Reference website. Tom Noonan. [3]
- ^ Young, Glen, ed. The Best American Short Plays 1998-1999. Applause Theatre Book Publisher. 2001. page 157[4]
- ^ Guernsey, Otis. Curtain Times: The New York Theatre, 1965-1987. Applause Theatre Books. 1987. page 135 [5]
- ^ Noonan, John Ford. All She Cares About is the Yankees. From the introduction by Samuel French, Inc. [6]
- ^ Doollee . com website [7]
- ^ Hischak, Thomas S. American Theatre : A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1969-2000. Oxford University Press. 2001. page 47. [8]
- ^ Rich, Frank. Stage: ‘White Chicks’; Transplanted Texan. New York Times. 2 May 1980.
- ^ Rich, Frank. Theater: ‘Some Men,’ a Story of Alcoholism. New York Times. 29 October 1982.
- ^ Marks, Peter. Making It to Dartmought With That Old Moxie. New York Times. 7 June 1997.
- ^ Young, Glen, ed. The Best American Short Plays 1998-1999. Applause Theatre Book Publisher. 2001. page 157[9]
- ^ Gussow, Mel. Two Characters in Search of an Offstage Chekhov. New York Times. 13 May 1990.
- ^ International Movie Data Base IMDB [10]
- ^ Doollee . com website [11]