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Donald Margulies

  • Born: 1954
  • Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY

Donald Margulies is an award-winning playwright who teaches playwrighting at the Yale School of Drama. A graduate of SUNY, Margulies collaborated with Joseph Papp on his first off-Broadway play, Found a Peanut, which was produced at Papp's Public Theater.

In 1992, Margulies play, Sight Unseen, won an Obie for Best New American Play. He won a second Obie, this time for Best Drama, for his play The Model Apartment. His play, Collected Stories, about a Jewish writer who is betrayed by her young disciple, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. That prize would come to him in 2000, when his play Dinner With Friends – the story of a seemingly happy couple who re-examine their own relationship when their best friends decide to divorce – won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Elected to the Dramatists Guild Council in 1993, Margulies has received grants from Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS), New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

Most Famous Works

  • Sight Unseen (1992)
  • Dinner With Friends (2000)
 
 
Works: Works by Donald Margulies
(b. 1954)

1991Sight Unseen. Margulies wins the Obie Award for best American play for this drama about an American Jewish painter whose reputation skyrockets and his works are bought unseen. The experience causes him to reevaluate the means by which self-worth can be found.
1995The Model Apartment. Margulies's play about two Holocaust survivors in Florida and their schizophrenic daughter wins the Obie Award for best drama.
1997Collected Stories. Margulies's play is based on the controversy surrounding novelist David Leavitt's borrowing of unattributed passages from Stephen Spender's memoir for his novel While England Sleeps (1993).
1998Dinner with Friends. First premiering in Louisville, Margulies's drama about two couples coping with divorce and the various pressures on modern marriage would win the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, following its New York opening.

 
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Donald Margulies (MARG-yoo-leez) is an American playwright whose plays include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner With Friends. Other plays include Shipwrecked! An Entertainment — The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told by Himself) (opening at South Coast Repertory in September 2007), Brooklyn Boy (2004), Sight Unseen (1991) and Collected Stories (1996) all of which were commissioned and originally produced by South Coast Repertory. Sight Unseen and Collected Stories were also both finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Dinner with Friends, which originated at Actors Theatre of Louisville, went on after its West Coast premiere at South Coast Repertory to win numerous awards, including the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, long runs Off-Broadway and in Paris, and productions all over the United States and around the world. His other plays include Two Days, God of Vengeance (adapted from the classic Yiddish drama by Sholem Asch), The Model Apartment (Obie Award), The Loman Family Picnic, Found a Peanut, Luna Park and What’s Wrong with This Picture? (produced on Broadway in 1994). Sight Unseen completed its Broadway premiere engagement at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Biltmore Theatre in 2004 where it starred Laura Linney and Ben Shenkman and was directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan.

Mr. Margulies is the recipient of the 2000 Sidney Kingsley Award for outstanding achievement in the theatre by a playwright and a member of the council of the Dramatists Guild of America. He teaches playwriting at Yale University. He attended Purchase College where he majored in visual arts. He also attended John Dewey High School in Brooklyn, New York.

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