Stephen Adly Guirgis is an American playwright, screenwriter,
director, and actor. He is a member and a former co-artistic director
of New York City's LAByrinth Theater Company. His plays have been
produced both Off-Broadway and on Broadway as well as in the UK. His
play Between Riverside and Crazy won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for
Drama.Guirgis is the son of an Egyptian father and an Irish American
mother. He was raised on New York City's Upper West Side. He attended
school in nearby Harlem and graduated from University at Albany, SUNY
in 1992. He studied theatre at HB Studio.Guirgis' play Between
Riverside and Crazy premiered Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater
Company in July 2014 and closed on August 23, 2014. It then was
produced by Second Stage Theatre, opening in previews on January 16,
2015, officially on February 11, 2015. Directed by Austin Pendleton,
the play featured Stephen McKinley Henderson. The play received a
nomination for the 2015 Drama League Award, Outstanding Production of
a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play. The play won the 2015 Outer Critics
Circle Award, Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play. The play won the 2015
New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. The play won the
2015 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Play. Artists Repertory
Theatre, located in Portland, Oregon, will stage Between Riverside and
Crazy from March 4 to April 1, 2018.
director, and actor. He is a member and a former co-artistic director
of New York City's LAByrinth Theater Company. His plays have been
produced both Off-Broadway and on Broadway as well as in the UK. His
play Between Riverside and Crazy won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for
Drama.Guirgis is the son of an Egyptian father and an Irish American
mother. He was raised on New York City's Upper West Side. He attended
school in nearby Harlem and graduated from University at Albany, SUNY
in 1992. He studied theatre at HB Studio.Guirgis' play Between
Riverside and Crazy premiered Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater
Company in July 2014 and closed on August 23, 2014. It then was
produced by Second Stage Theatre, opening in previews on January 16,
2015, officially on February 11, 2015. Directed by Austin Pendleton,
the play featured Stephen McKinley Henderson. The play received a
nomination for the 2015 Drama League Award, Outstanding Production of
a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play. The play won the 2015 Outer Critics
Circle Award, Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play. The play won the 2015
New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. The play won the
2015 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Play. Artists Repertory
Theatre, located in Portland, Oregon, will stage Between Riverside and
Crazy from March 4 to April 1, 2018.
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