Terrence McNally

Known for WritingBorn 1938-11-03Died 2020-03-24St. Petersburg, Florida, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Five Forty-Eight

Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It

Anastasia

The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking

Frankie and Johnny

Every Act of Life

American Playhouse

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Love! Valour! Compassion!

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Charlie Rose

The State of Marriage

Concrete Beat

The Ritz

Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption

Common Ground

30 Years from Here

Ragtime, The Musical: All-Star Reunion Concert

Ragtime: The Symphonic Concert

It's Only a Play

Chita: A Legendary Celebration

Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do

Heart of Broadway: The Ensemble Behind Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS

Ragtime

Creating Ragtime

Andre's Mother