Terrence McNally

Writing

Born 1938-11-03 Died 2020-03-24 St. Petersburg, Florida, USA 26 credits Tony Awards 4 star on Playwrights' Sidewalk 1 John Jay Award 1 Drama League Award 1 Guggenheim Fellowship 1

Awards

Won 4 Tony Awards

Tony Awards 4 won · 3 nominated

2015 Best Book of a Musical Nominated The Visit
2014 Best Play Nominated Mothers and Sons
2001 Best Book of a Musical Nominated The Full Monty
1998 Best Book of a Musical Won Ragtime
1996 Best Play Won Master Class
1995 Best Play Won Love! Valour! Compassion!
1993 Best Book of a Musical Won Kiss of the Spider Woman

star on Playwrights' Sidewalk 1 won

— star on Playwrights' Sidewalk Won

John Jay Award 1 won

— John Jay Award Won

Drama League Award 1 won

— Drama League Award Won

Guggenheim Fellowship 1 won

— Guggenheim Fellowship Won

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Terrence McNally (November 3, 1938 – March 24, 2020) was an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. Described as "the bard of American theatre" and "one of the greatest contemporary playwrights the theatre world has yet produced," McNally was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1996. He received the 2019 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011, and the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2018, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the highest recognition of artistic merit in the United States. He received the Tony Award for Best Play for Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class, as well as the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime. His other accolades included an Emmy Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, four Drama Desk Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, two Obie Awards, and three Hull-Warriner Awards. His career spanned six decades, and his plays, musicals, and operas were routinely performed all over the world. He also wrote screenplays, teleplays, and a memoir. Active in the regional and off-Broadway theatre movements as well as on Broadway, he was one of the few playwrights of his generation to have successfully passed from the avant-garde to mainstream acclaim. His work centred on the difficulties of and urgent need for human connection. He was vice-president of the Council of the Dramatists Guild from 1981 to 2001. He died of complications from COVID-19 on March 24, 2020, at a hospital in Florida.