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Please help improve th is article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be ch allenged and removed. (April 2013) John Guare John Guare at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.jpg Guare at the 2009 premiere of PoliWood Born February 5, 1938 (age 75) New York City, New York, U.S. Occupation Playwright Nationality American Alma mater Georgetown University, Yale School of Drama Period 1964 present Notable work(s) The House of Blue Leaves; Six Degrees of Separation John Guare (pronounced "gwr"; born February 5, 1938) is an American playwright. H e is best known as the author of The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separa tion, and Landscape of the Body. His style, which mixes comic invention with an acute sense of the failure of human relations and aspirations, is at once cruel and deeply compassionate. In the foreword to a collection of Guare's plays, film director Louis Malle writ es: Guare practices a humor that is synonymous with lucidity, exploding genre and cl ichs, taking us to the core of human suffering: the awareness of corruption in ou r own bodies, death circling in. We try to fight it all by creating various myth ologies, and it is Guare's peculiar aptitude for exposing these grandiose lies o f ours that makes his work so magical.[citation needed] Contents [hide] 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Works 4 Awards and honors 5 References 6 External links Early life[edit] Guare was born in New York City and raised in Jackson Heights, Queens. He was ra ised a Roman Catholic, but is apparently now a lapsed Catholic.[1] He was educat ed at St. John's Preparatory School and Georgetown University (BA, 1960), where in 1958 he contributed a song to an original musical revue entitled The Natives Are Restless and presented by the Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society. The song hum orously attributed the success of many famous people to the syllable "O" in thei r names. Under the direction of Donn B. Murphy, his play The Toadstool Boy, abou t a country singer's quest for fame, won first place in the District of Columbia Recreation Department's One-Act-Play competition. In 1960, the Mask and Bauble presented The Thirties Girl, a musical for which Gu are did the book, much of the music and the lyrics, again under Murphy's tutelag e. Set in Hollywood's turbulent 1920s, it dealt with the dethronement of a reign ing diva by a fresh-faced starlet. Guare went on to the Yale School of Drama (MF A, 1963). Career[edit] Guare's early plays, mostly comic one-acts exhibiting a flair for the absurd, in clude To Wally Pantoni, We Leave a Credenza (1964), Muzeeka (1968), and Cop-Out (1968). The House of Blue Leaves (1971), a domestic drama by turns wildly comic and despairingly poignant, moved Guare into the front ranks of American dramatis ts. Chaucer in Rome, a sequel to The House of Blue Leaves, received its world pr

emiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in July 1999 and later enjoyed a pro duction in New York by Lincoln Center Theater. Later plays include Marco Polo Sings a Solo, Bosoms and Neglect, Moon Over Miami , Six Degrees of Separation, and Four Baboons Adoring the Sun. Lake Hollywood an d A Few Stout Individuals (2002) both received their world premieres at Signatur e Theatre. Six Degrees of Separation (1990), an intricately plotted comedy of ma nners about an African-American confidence man who poses as the son of film star Sidney Poitier, has been the most highly praised and widely produced of Guare's full-length plays. It was made into a film in 1993. Guare s cycle of plays on nineteenth-century America, Gardenia, Lydie Breeze and W omen and Water, has been performed in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Franci sco, Washington D.C., London and Australia. A Few Stout Individuals returns to n ineteenth century America, with a cast that includes Ulysses S. Grant, Mark Twai n, soprano Adelina Patti and the Emperor and Empress of Japan. These historic dr amas investigate the violence at the root of American identity and the failure o f utopian aspirations. Guare has also been involved with musical theatre. His libretto with Mel Shapiro for the musical Two Gentlemen of Verona was a success when it premiered in 1971 and was revived in 2005 at the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park. It won the two men the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical. He wrote th e songs for Landscape of the Body. Guare wrote narration for '"Psyche,"' a tone poem by Csar Franck, which premiered at Avery Fisher Hall in October 1997, conduc ted by Kurt Masur with the New York Philharmonic. In 1999, he revised the book o f the Cole Porter musical comedy, Kiss Me, Kate for its Broadway revival. He als o wrote the book for the Broadway musical Sweet Smell of Success (musical). Guare wrote the screenplay for Louis Malle's film Atlantic City (1980), for whic h he was nominated for an Oscar. He was a founding member in 1965 of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterfo rd, Connecticut and Resident Playwright at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1976. He is a council member of the Dramatists Guild, co-editor of the Lincoln C enter Theater Review, co-produces the New Plays Reading Room Series at the Linco ln Center Library for the Performing Arts and teaches in the Playwriting departm ent at the Yale School of Drama. Works[edit] All dramas for the stage unless otherwise noted. 1971: The House of Blue Leaves 1971: Two Gentlemen of Verona 1974: Rich and Famous 1977: Landscape of the Body 1977: Marco Polo Sings a Solo 1979: Bosoms and Neglect 1980: Atlantic City (screenplay) 1982: Lydie Breeze 1982: Gardenia 1986: The Race to Urga 1990: Six Degrees of Separation 1990: Women and Water 1992: Four Baboons Adoring the Sun 1999: Lake Hollywood 2001: Chaucer in Rome 2002: A Few Stout Individuals 2010: A Free Man of Color 2011: Erased/Elbieta 2012: Are You There, McPhee? 2013: 3 Kinds of Exile Awards and honors[edit] Muzeeka won an Obie in 1968. The House of Blue Leaves won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Ame

rican Play in 1971 and four Tony Awards for its 1986 revival at Lincoln Center T heater. Two Gentlemen of Verona won both the Tony Award and the New York Drama Critics C ircle Award for Best Musical in 1972. Guare also received the Drama Desk Award f or Outstanding Lyrics. Six Degrees of Separation won an Obie Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle A ward, and London s Olivier Award for Best Play; it was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Mr. Guare received the Award of Merit from the American Academy of Arts and Lett ers for his plays The House of Blue Leaves, Rich and Famous, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, Landscape of the Body and Bosoms and Neglect. In 1989, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters elected him a me mber. In 1993 he was elected to the Theatre Hall of Fame. In 1996 he received the New York State Governor s Arts Award. Signature Theatre honored him with a season 1998 - 1999. In 1999 he was honored at the William Inge Festival. In 2003 he received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awar d for a Master American Dramatist. References[edit] Jump up ^ http://www.adherents.com/people/pg/John_Guare.html External links[edit] Anne Cattaneo (Winter 1992). "John Guare, The Art of Theater No. 9". The Paris R eview. John Guare at the Internet Movie Database Biography at theatredatabase.com John Guare with poster for his Caffe Cino production John Guare Papers at Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. [show] v t e Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics (1969 1975) [show] v t e Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical (1970 1975) Authority control WorldCat VIAF: 71506879 LCCN: n80065728 ISNI: 0000 0001 1474 608X GND: 124241921 Categories: 1938 birthsAmerican dramatists and playwrightsFellows of the America n Academy of Arts and SciencesGeorgetown University alumniLiving peopleMembers o f the American Academy of Arts and LettersObie Award recipientsPeople from Queen s, New YorkWriters from New York CityYale School of Drama alumni Navigation menu Create accountLog inArticleTalkReadEditView history Search Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Donate to Wikipedia Interaction Help About Wikipedia Community portal Recent changes Contact page Tools Print/export Languages Deutsch Franais

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