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John Patrick Shanley

 
Writer: John Patrick Shanley
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  • Born: 1950 in New York City, New York
  • Occupation: Writer, Director
  • Active: '80s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
  • Career Highlights: Moonstruck, Alive, Five Corners
  • First Major Screen Credit: Moonstruck (1987)

Biography

Bronx native John Patrick Shanley studied educational theater at N.Y.U. before making a name for himself as a writer with his first published play Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. His big breakthrough came in 1987 with the screenplay for the romantic comedy Moonstruck. Boasting an all-star cast and several Academy awards, the film won Shanley his first Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. His other early screenplays include the episodic comedy Five Corners and the offbeat crime comedy The January Man. In 1990 he made his directorial debut by filming his script for Joe Versus the Volcano. A strange romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, the film is regarded as a box-office failure, but its uniqueness has found its way into the hearts of many fans. Sticking with writing, Shanley then adapted the book by Piers Paul Read for the adventure drama Alive, based on a real plane crash in the Andes mountains. He then wrote the screenplay for the cartoon We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story, along with adapting Michael Crichton's Congo for the screen and cleaning up Robert Wiener's teleplay for Live From Baghdad. In 1998 he published the play The Dreamer Examines His Pillow and in 2002 a production company in France filmed a French-language version of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
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Not to be confused with playwright John Patrick.
John Patrick Shanley
Born 3 October 1950 (1950-10-03) (age 59)
The Bronx, New York, USA
Occupation Playwright and Screenwriter
Nationality United States
Alma mater New York University
Spouse Jayne Haynes
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Debut works Welcome to the Moon (1982)
Women of Manhattan (1986)
Magnum opus Doubt: A Parable (2004)
Awards Academy Award (1988), Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2005), Tony Award (2005)

John Patrick Shanley (born October 3, 1950) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. It is rumored that he insists in his contract that not a single word can be changed in the screenplays that he writes, but Shanley has denied that this rumor is true.[1]

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Biography

Shanley was born in The Bronx, New York City, to a telephone operator mother and a meat-packer father.[2] He is a graduate of New York University, and is a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre. He was also a United States Marine[3]

For his script for the 1987 film, Moonstruck, Shanley won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.

In 1990, Shanley directed his script of Joe Versus the Volcano. Shanley also wrote two songs for the movie: "Marooned Without You" and "The Cowboy Song."

In 2004 Shanley was inducted into the Bronx Walk of Fame.

In 2005, Shanley's play Doubt: A Parable was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Drama Desk Award and Tony Award for Best Play. Doubt: A Parable, is featured in The Fourth Wall, a book of photographs by Amy Arbus in which Shanley also wrote the foreword.

In 2008, Shanley directed a film version of Doubt starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams and Viola Davis.

Work

Stage

  • Welcome to the Moon (1982)
  • Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (1983)
  • Savage In Limbo (1984)
  • The Dreamer Examines His Pillow (1985)
  • Italian American Reconciliation (1986)
  • Women of Manhattan (1986)
  • All For Charity (1987)
  • Italian American Reconciliation (1988)
  • The Big Funk (1990)
  • Beggars in the House of Plenty (1991)
  • What Is This Everything? (1992)
  • Kissing Christine (1995)
  • Missing Marisa (1995)
  • Four Dogs and a Bone (1993)
  • The Wild Goose (1995)
  • Psychopathia Sexualis (1998)
  • Where's My Money? (2001)
  • Cellini (2001)
  • Dirty Story (2003)
  • Doubt: A Parable (2004)
  • Sailor's Song (2004)
  • Defiance (2005)
  • Romantic Poetry (2007) - cowritten with Henry Krieger

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Awards
Nominations

References

  1. ^ http://www.avclub.com/articles/john-patrick-shanley,22252/
  2. ^ http://www.filmreference.com/film/58/John-Patrick-Shanley.html
  3. ^ http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/john_patrick_shanley/index.html?inline=nyt-per

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