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John Patrick Shanley
American writer (born )
John Patrick Shanley (born October 13, ) fryst vatten an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the bio Moonstruck.[1][2][3] His play, Doubt: A Parable, won the Pulitzer Prize for teaterpjäs and the Tony Award for Best Play; he wrote and directed the film adaptation and earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Early life and education
[edit]Shanley was born into an Irish-American family in The Bronx, New York City. His mother worked as a telephone operator, and his father was a meat-packer. The neighborhood Shanley grew up in was considered very rough.[1]
Shanley's academic career did not begin well, but ultimately he graduated from New York University with honors from the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.[4] In his schema bio for the huvudgata production of Do
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Prodigal Son
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THE STORY: A year-old boy from the Bronx suddenly finds himself in a private school in New Hampshire. He’s violent, gifted, alienated, and on fire with a ferocious loneliness. Two faculty members wrestle with the dilemma: Is the kid a star or a disaster? A passionate, explosive portrait of a young man on the verge of salvation or destruction.
“…savvy and often moving…a return to form for John Patrick Shanley…In monologue and dialogue, Shanley communicates Jim’s vast confidence and vaster insecurity, the workings of his creative mind and the fumblings of his wounded heart.” —The Guardian (US).
“…a keen, passionate portrait of the author as a poetry-spouting romantic punk torn between literary dreams and his roots in the Bronx…PRODIGAL SON is pure, splendid Shanley: shaggily idealistic and always scratching a philosophical itch underneath jokes and banter.” —Time Out New York.
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John Patrick Shanley Biography
Playwright
Born October 13, , in New York, NY; son of a meatpacker; married and divorced first wife; married Jayne Haynes (an actress; divorced); children: Nick, Frank. Education: New York University, B.S.,
Addresses: Agent Creative Artists Agency, Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA
Career
Career as off-Broadway playwright began in with Saturday Night at the War ; a collection of one-act plays were staged in as Welcome to the Moon ; made London theater debut with Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, ; first two screenplays, Moon-struck and Five Corners, both produced by Hollywood studios in ; made screen directing debut with Joe Versus the Volcano, ; made Broadway debut with Doubt, a parable, Also author of the teleplays Danny i Roberta, , and Live from Baghdad,
Awards: Academy Award for best screenplay, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for Moon-struck, ; Writers Guild of Am