Edward Albee

Edward Albee
Nome completo	Edward Franklin Albee
Nacemento	12 de marzo de 1928
Lugar de nacemento	Washington, D.C.
Falecemento	16 de setembro de 2016
Lugar de falecemento	Montauk
Causa	Diabetes mellitus
Nacionalidade	Estados Unidos de América
Alma máter	Choate Rosemary Hall, Trinity College, Lawrenceville School, Rye Country Day School e Valley Forge Military Academy and College
Ocupación	dramaturgo, escritor, guionista, profesor universitario e director teatral
Pai	Reed A. Albee
Coñecido por	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (peça) e The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
Premios	National Medal of Arts, Nestroy Award, America Award in Literature, Tony Award for Best Play, Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording, Prémio Pulitzer de Teatro, Prémio Pulitzer de Teatro, Prémio Pulitzer de Teatro, St. Louis Literary Award, Premio Kennedy, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, Tony Award for Best Play, Drama Desk Special Award, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, honorary doctor of the University of Miami, Hull-Warriner Award e PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award
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Edward Franklin Albee, nado en Washington, D.C. o 12 de marzo de 1928 e finado en Montauk (Nova York) o 16 de setembro de 2016, foi un dramaturgo norteamericano.

A súa obra máis senlleira é Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Traxectoria

Ás poucas semanas de nacer adoptouno o propietario dunha cadea de teatros, o que marcou a súa traxectoria profesional. As obras de Albee son únicas, inscritas na escola do absurdo: unha das súas grandes influencias foi Samuel Beckett.

Obras

• The Zoo Story (1958)
• The Death of Bessie Smith (1959)
• The Sandbox (1959)
• Fam and Yam (1959)
• The American Dream (1960)
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961-62, premio Tony)
• The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1963) (adaptado da novela de Carson McCullers)
• Tiny Alice (1964)
• Malcolm (1965) (adaptado da novela de James Purdy)
• A Delicate Balance (1966, premio Pulitzer)
• Everything in the Garden (1967) (adaptado da obra de Giles Cooper)
• Box and Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (1968)
• All Over (1971)
• Seascape (1974, premio Pulitzer)
• Listening (1975)
• Counting the Ways (1976)
• The Lady From Dubuque (1977-79)
• Lolita (adaptado da novela de Vladimir Nabokov)
• The Man Who Had Three Arms (1981)
• Finding the Sun (1982)
• Marriage Play (1986-87)
• Three Tall Women (1990-91, premio Pulitzer)
• The Lorca Play (1992)
• Fragments (1993)
• The Play About the Baby (1996)
• The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (2000, premio Tony)
• Occupant (2001)
• Peter & Jerry (Primeiro acto: '"Homelife". Segundo acto: "The Zoo Story") (2004)