fiction.wikisort.org - WriterPaul Shyre (8 March 1926–19 November 1989) was an American director and playwright who received a Special Tony Award and won a Regional Emmy Award.[1] He is noted for the plays Hizzoner, Will Rogers' USA and The President Is Dead.[2]
American dramatist
Shyre graduated from the University of Florida and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a professor of theater arts at Cornell University.[3]
Shyre adapted to the stage, directed and co-produced the Sean O'Casey novels, Pictures in the Hallway, I Knock at the Door and Drums Under the Windows. He also wrote and directed A Whitman Portrait and An Unpleasant Evening With H.L. Mencken.[1]
Awards
- 1957 Drama Desk Award for Pictures in the Hallway[4]
- 1957 Obie Award, special citation for bringing O'Casey to Off-Broadway; for his adaptations of I Knock at the Door, Pictures in the Hallway, and USA[5]
- 1957 Special Tony Award
- 1987 New York Emmy Award shared with Robert H. Rines for the television and later Broadway play Hizzoner! about Mayor Fiorello La Guardia.
References
Special Tony Award |
---|
1947–1975 | |
---|
1976–2000 |
- George Abbott / Richard Burton / Circle in the Square Theatre / Thomas H. Fitzgerald / Mathilde Pincus (1976)
- Cheryl Crawford / Equity Liberty Theatre / Barry Manilow / National Theatre of the Deaf / Diana Ross / Lily Tomlin (1977)
- Irving Berlin / Stan Dragoti and Charles Moss (1978)
- Walter F. Diehl / Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center / Henry Fonda / Richard Rodgers (1979)
- Richard Fitzgerald / Helen Hayes / Mary Tyler Moore / Hobe Morrison (1980)
- Lena Horne (1981)
- Radio City Music Hall / The Actors Fund of America / Warner Communications (1982)
- No award (1983)
- A Chorus Line / Peter Feller / La Tragedie de Carmen (1984)
- Yul Brynner / New York State Council on the Arts (1985)
- No award (1986)
- George Abbott / Jackie Mason (1987)
- Brooklyn Academy of Music (1988)
- No award (1989)
- No award (1990–1992)
- Oklahoma! (1993)
- Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy (1994)
- Carol Channing / National Endowment for the Arts / Harvey Sabinson (1995)
- No award (1996)
- Bernard B. Jacobs (1997)
- Edward E. Colton / Ben Edwards (1998)
- Uta Hagen / Arthur Miller / Isabelle Stevenson (1999)
- Dame Edna: The Royal Tour / T. Edward Hambleton (2000)
|
---|
2001–present | |
---|
Authority control |
---|
General | |
---|
National libraries | |
---|
Other | |
---|
Текст в блоке "Читать" взят с сайта "Википедия" и доступен по лицензии Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike; в отдельных случаях могут действовать дополнительные условия.
Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.
2019-2024
WikiSort.org - проект по пересортировке и дополнению контента Википедии