In 2011, the Arena Stage Festival at The Mead Center for American Theater honored Albee with the annual American Artist Award as well as 26 staged readings of every play he has produced since the late 1950s. His play Me, Myself and I opened at the McCarter Theater in January 2008, and made its off-Broadway debut in the fall of 2010. He had three plays produced in New York during the 2007-2008 season: Peter and Jerry with Bill Pullman a revival of his one-act plays The American Dream and The Sandbox and Occupant about Louise Nevelson. Albee has also won Kennedy Center Honors, the National Medal of Arts, and a special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. His play, The Goat or Who is Sylvia, won the 2002 Tony Award for Best Play. The play is said to mark the beginning of the American absurdist movement in theatrical drama. His first play, The Zoo Story, opened in 1959 and tells the story of a drifter who acts out his own murder with the unwitting aid of an upper-middle-class editor. A three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, The American Theater Wing called him "the greatest living playwright."Īlbee is perhaps best known for his 1962 drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? It received both the Tony and New York Drama Critics Circle awards and is widely considered a classic of American contemporary theatre.Īlbee's plays explore intimate aspects of society.
The Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences Division of Performing and Visual Arts will welcome celebrated playwright Edward Albee to Nova Southeastern University as part of the college's 2012-2013 Distinguished Speakers Series.Īlbee has helped define modern American theatre with five decades of provocative, controversial, and successful plays.
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