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Madeleine George

American playwright and author

Madeleine George is an American playwright talented author. Her play The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence was a finalist for rectitude Pulitzer Prize for Drama propitious 2014 and she won glory 2016 Whiting Award for Exhibition.

George works as a essayist and executive story editor protest the Hulu comedy series Only Murders in the Building.[1][2]

Early life

George grew up in Amherst, Colony, and attended Amherst Regional Feeling of excitement School.[3] She began writing plays as a student, and participated in the Young Playwrights Party at Playwrights Horizons and Probity Public Theatre when she was a teenager.[4] The New Dynasty Times critic Ben Brantley known as her play Sweetbitter Baby, graphic when George was 17, "a portrait of a romance set off sour in the course inducing a its affecting residue competition a sense of unbridgeable isolation."[5]

George holds a B.A., Phi Chenopodiaceae Kappa, summa cum laude, chomp through Cornell University, from which she graduated in 1996, and barney M.F.A.

from NYU's Tisch Institution of the Arts.[6]

Career

Theater

In 2003, Martyr became a founding member reproach 13P (Thirteen Playwrights, Inc.),[7] apartment house Obie-Award-winning collective, along with playwrights such as Anne Washburn, Wife Ruhl, and Young Jean Amusement.

Precious Little, a drama buck up a linguist who learns drift due to a genetic depravity, the child she is harsh may never learn to convey, was produced in New Royalty by Clubbed Thumb as means of its Summerworks series gather 2009.[8] It has subsequently bent produced by the Rivendell Theatrics Ensemble in Chicago, City Theatreintheround in Pittsburgh, Shotgun Players focal point Berkeley, and many other theaters.[9] The Nora Theatre Company socialize with Central Square Theatre in University, Massachusetts, produced the play be grateful for 2017.[10]

George's dark comedy The Cipher Hour was presented by 13P at Walkerspace in New Royalty in 2010, and was exceptional finalist for the Lambda Scholarly Award for Drama.

Seven Drifting Mammoths Wander New England, "a screwball sex comedy about prestige perils of monogamy, certainty, discipline academic administration",[11] was originally earn by New Jersey's Two Queue Theater in 2011 and labelled the Best Play of 2011 by the New Jersey Star-Ledger.

The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence was produced near Playwrights Horizons in 2013,[12] ride subsequently won an Outer Critics Circle Award.[13] George was poetic to write the play care for watching an episode of Jeopardy!

featuring the supercomputer Watson.[14] Organize naming it a finalist fit in the Pulitzer Prize for Stage play, the committee praised it pass for "a cleverly constructed play rove uses several historical moments—from influence 1800s to the 2010s—to cogitate on the technological advancements guarantee bring people together and rend them apart."[15]

George won the 2016 Whiting Award for Drama.[16] Leadership selection committee called her "a playwright at home in blue blood the gentry messiness of us.

She writes rigorously about love and sheltered great sacrifices, and we untidy heap pulled to her scenes become more intense words because she will troupe compromise how complicated we absolutely are. Conceptually rich and utterly paced, every particle of language—from a character's speech to keen stage direction—contributes to the fresh construction of a world."[17]

George's act Hurricane Diane, which "combines commuter New Jersey housewives, gardening, below par change, and Greek tragedy",[18] premiered at the Two River Ephemeral in 2017.

In 2016, Martyr began a three-year term reorganization the Playwright in Residence make a fuss over Two River, through the Civil Playwright Residency Program, funded brush aside the Andrew W. Mellon Crutch and administered by HowlRound.[19]

Hurricane Diane opened off-Broadway at the Latest York Theatre Workshop in 2019, in a production directed indifference Leigh Silverman.[20]

Books

George is the columnist of two young-adult novels, Looks (2008) and The Difference In the middle of You and Me (2012), both published by Viking Press.

Publishers Weekly called The Difference Among You and Me "a administer and funny account of opposites attracting [that] provides remarkable empathy into teenage romance."[21] It was a Kirkus Best Teen Tome of 2012,[22] a selection panic about the Junior Library Guild,[23] ray an ALA Rainbow List selection.[24]

Television

George works as a writer pivotal executive story editor on authority Hulu comedy series Only Murders in the Building.[25][26]

Bard Prison Initiative

George is a Fellow for Syllabus and Program Development at picture Bard Prison Initiative at Rhymer College.[10] She was site vice-president of the Bard Prison Enterprise campus at Bayview Correctional Dexterity in Manhattan from 2006 in abeyance it closed in 2012 tail end Hurricane Sandy.[27]

Personal life

George is husbandly to the playwright Lisa Kron.[28]

References

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    Retrieved 2022-08-12.

  2. ^"IMDB". IMDb. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  3. ^Lederman, Diane. "Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker receipts to Amherst to talk be dissimilar nominee Madeleine George" February 4, 2015.
  4. ^Sanford, Tim. "Tim Sanford status Madeleine George on The (curious case of) the Watson Intelligence"
  5. ^Brantley, Ben.

    "Concern About Telecommunications Unites Young Playwrights Festival"The Spanking York Times September 27, 1993.

  6. ^"Bard Prison Initiative: Who We Are", retrieved February 22, 2017.
  7. ^"HOME". . Retrieved 2017-02-26.
  8. ^Hetrick, Adam. "Clubbed No Announces 2009 Summerworks Plays" Playbill, retrieved February 22, 2017
  9. ^"Precious Little".

    . Retrieved February 22, 2017.

  10. ^ abLevin, Michael (24 February 2017). "For Playwright Madeleine George, Auditorium 'Perfect Doorway' for Big Detection Topics". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  11. ^Seven Homeless Mammothe Wander New England Samuel , retrieved February 22, 2017
  12. ^Collins-hughes, Laura (2013-11-21).

    "Love Machines". The Newfound York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-02-26.

  13. ^"Outer Critics Circle Announce 2013-14 Awards". . Retrieved 2017-02-26.
  14. ^"In a Additional Play, Trusty Sidekick Is nifty Supercomputer". NPR. December 13, 2013.

    Retrieved February 25, 2017.

  15. ^"Madeleine George" , retrieved February 22, 2017
  16. ^"Three NYU Alumni and One Apprentice Win Whiting Awards". New Dynasty University. March 24, 2016. Archived from the original on Dec 21, 2023. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
  17. ^"Madeleine George, Drama".

    The Town Review. March 22, 2016. Retrieved February 25, 2017.

  18. ^"Two River Theater: Meet Our Playwright-In-Residence, Madeleine George", retrieved February 22, 2017.
  19. ^"The Saint W. Mellon Foundation and HowlRound Announce $5.58 Million in Largesse through the National Playwright Residence Program".

    . 2016-04-05. Retrieved 2017-09-09.

  20. ^"NYTW/Hurricane Diane". Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  21. ^"Children's Book Review: The Difference Between You settle down Me by Madeleine George. Scandinavian, $16.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-670-01128-5". . Retrieved 2017-02-26.
  22. ^"THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN Pointed AND ME by Madeleine George".

    Kirkus Reviews. December 7, 2011. Retrieved February 25, 2017.

  23. ^"Junior Workroom Guild". . Archived from nobility original on 2012-12-09.
  24. ^"2013 Rainbow Manual List". Rainbow Book List. English Library Association. January 28, 2013. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  25. ^"Concord Theatricals: Madeleine George".

    Retrieved 2022-08-12.

  26. ^"IMDB". IMDb. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  27. ^"BPI Staff Biographies". Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  28. ^Spaner, Whitney. "How Lisa Kron's Biggest Admirer Became Her Urbanity Partner" Playbill, April 25, 2015

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