Edward Albee ile kim çıktı?

Edward Franklin Albee (d. 12 Mart 1928 - ö. 16 Eylül 2016, New York), Amerikalı yazar. Kim Korkar Hain Kurttan? (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) adlı oyunuyla tanınan yazar modernitenin ve savaş sonrası Amerikan kültürünü eleştiren oyunlarıyla dönemin farklı seslerinden biri olmayı başarmıştır.

1946 - 1947 arasında Hartford'taki Trinity College'ta öğrenim gördü. Bir süre roman ve şiir yazan Albee, daha sonra oyun yazarı olmaya karar verdi. Başta tek perdelik oyunlar yazdı. En önemli eseri üç perdelik ilk oyunu Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf'u 1962'de tamamladı. 1966'da sinemaya da uyarlanan bu oyun, Türkiye'de çeşitli kereler sahnelendi ve 1993'te Kabalcı Yayınevi tarafından Kim Korkar Virginia Woolf'tan adıyla yayınlandı. Albee oyun yazarlığının yanı sıra ABD'de çeşitli okullarda dersler de verdi. Seascape (1975, Deniz Manzarası), A Delicate Balance (Kıl payı, 1966) ve Three Tall Women (1991, Üç Boylu Kadın) adlı oyunlarıyla üç kez Pulitzer Ödülü kazandı. Albee'nin ilk dönem oyunları absürt tiyatronun önemli örnekleri arasında yer almıştır. 16 Eylül 2016'da ölmüştür.

Terrence McNally (November 3, 1938 – March 24, 2020) was an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. Described as "the bard of American theater" and "one of the greatest contemporary playwrights the theater world has yet produced," McNally was the recipient of five Tony Awards. He won the Tony Award for Best Play for Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class and the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime, and received the 2019 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1996, and he also received 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. 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 centered 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 Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Florida.