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    Edward Albee

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    It's one of those things a person has to do; sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly. ↗


    — Edward Albee

    #dreams

    What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it ↗


    — Edward Albee

    #life

    I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up? ↗


    — Edward Albee

    #jealousy

    I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running. ↗


    — Edward Albee

    #culture #drama #samuel-beckett #stage #theater

    Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger. ↗


    — Edward Albee

    #love #marriage #anger

    Musical beds is the faculty sport around here. ↗


    — Edward Albee

    #innuendo #humor

    American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties. ↗


    — Edward Albee

    #both #critics #dull #faculties #like

    A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth. ↗


    — Edward Albee

    #fact #fiction #into #play #truth

    I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. ↗


    — Edward Albee

    #fine #i #ridiculous #sense #sense of humor

    I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do. ↗


    — Edward Albee

    #happy #i #imperfect #leaves #me






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    Awards and nominations
    Awards
    1960: Drama Desk Award Vernon Rice Award: The Zoo Story
    1963: Tony Award for Best Play: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    1967: Pulitzer Prize for Drama: A Delicate Balance
    1975: Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Seascape
    1994: Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Three Tall Women
    1996: National Medal of Arts
    2002: Drama Desk Award Outstanding New Play: The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?
    2002: Tony Award for Best Play: The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?
    2005: Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement
    2005 Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award
    2008: Drama Desk Award Special Award
    2011: Edward MacDowell Medal for Lifetime Achievement
    2011: Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement Lambda Literary Foundation
    Nominations
    1964: Tony Award for Best Play: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
    1965: Tony Award for Best Author of a Play: Tiny Alice
    1965: Tony Award for Best Play: Tiny Alice
    1967: Tony Award for Best Play: A Delicate Balance
    1975: Drama Desk Award Outstanding New Play: Seascape
    1975: Tony Award for Best Play: Seascape
    1976: Drama Desk Award Outstanding Director of a Play: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    1994: Drama Desk Award Outstanding Play: Three Tall Women
    2001: Pulitzer Prize for Drama: The Play About the Baby
    2003: Pulitzer Prize for Drama: The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?
    2005: Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    The Pulitzer Prize committee for the Best Play in 1963 recommended Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? but the Pulitzer board which has sole discretion in awarding the prize rejected the recommendation due to the play's perceived vulgarity and no award was given that year. "
    "That's what happens in plays yes? The shit hits the fan. His first play The Zoo Story was first staged in Berlin.

    : /ˈɔːlbiː/ AWL-bee; born March 12 1928) is an American playwright who is known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958) The Sandbox (1959) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) and a rewrite of the book for the unsuccessful musical Breakfast at Tiffany's an adaptation of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's (1966). Edward Franklin Albee III (pron. Albee continues to experiment in works such as The Goat: or Who Is Sylvia? (2002).

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