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ALBEE
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American
playwright
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“Seascape” playwright; “A Delicate Balance”
playwright; "The
Zoo Story" playwright; Pulitzer-winning dramatist; “The
Sandbox” dramatist
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Edward
Franklin Albee III (born March 12, 1928) is an American
playwright known for works including Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?, The Zoo Story, and The Sandbox. His works are considered
well-crafted and often unsympathetic examinations of the modern
condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization
of the Absurdism that found its peak in works by European
playwrights such as Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett, and Eugene
Ionesco. Younger American playwrights, such as Pulitzer
Prize-winner Paula Vogel, credit Albee's daring mix of
theatricalism and biting dialogue with helping to reinvent the
post-war American theatre in the early 1960s. Albee's dedication
to continuing to evolve his voice--as evidenced in later
productions such as The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (2000) -- also
routinely marks him as distinct from other American playwrights
of his era.
Edward
Albee photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1961.
Edward
Albee was born in Washington, DC and was adopted two weeks later
and taken to Westchester County, New York. Albee's adoptive
father, himself the son of vaudeville magnate E.F. Albee, owned
several theatres, where Edward first gained familiarity with the
theatre as a child. Albee left home when he was in his late
teens, later saying in an interview, "They weren't very good
at being parents, and I wasn't very good at being a son." He
subsequently graduated from Valley Forge Military Academy in
Wayne, Pennsylvania in 1945 at the age of 17. He graduated from
Choate Rosemary Hall and attended Trinity College (Connecticut)
for a year and a half before being expelled for skipping classes
and refusing to attend compulsory chapel. Perhaps ironically, the
less than diligent student later dedicated much of his time to
promoting American university theatre, frequently speaking at
campuses and serving as a distinguished professor at the
University of Houston from 1989 to 2003.
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ALBEE
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Tu- >1 03 "A Delicate Balance" playwright
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We- >1 02 "The Zoo Story" playwright
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We+ >1 06 "Tiny Alice" playwright
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>1 96 Dramatist Edward
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Th- >1 06 "The Sandbox" playwright
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Fr- >1 03 "Three Tall Women" playwright
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>1 00 Playwright Edward
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Fr >1 01 "The American Dream" playwright
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"The Zoo Story" dramatist
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Mo+ >1 00 "Tiny Alice" playwright Edward
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Tu+ >1 99 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
playwright
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Tu+ >1 06 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
playwright Edward
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Tu >1 07 "The Goat" playwright Edward
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Fr CSy 07 "The Man Who Had Three Arms" playwright
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We CSy 09 "Three Tall Women" playwright Edward
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Th NYT 96 "Three Tall Women" writer
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Th Rea 07 Tiny Alice penner
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Tu LAT 02 "...Afraid of Virginia Woolf" playwright
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Th LAT 08 "A Delicate Balance" Pulitzer playwright
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Mo LAT 01 "A Zoo Story" playwright Edward
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"Box" dramatist
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Fr CSy 99 "Seascape" Pulitzer-winner
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