Edward Albee

Edward Albee was born on March 12, 1928 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA as Edward Franklin Albee III.

Won two Tony Awards as author of Best Play winners: in 1963 for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and in 2002 for "Edward Albee's The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?" He has also been Tony-nominated five other times: in 1964 as author of Best Play nominee "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe;" in 1965 as Best Author (Dramatic) and as author of Best Play nominee "Tiny Alice;" and, also as author of a Best Play nominee, in 1967 for "A Delicate Balance" and in 1975 for "Seascape".

Was nominated for the 1965 Tony Award (New York City) for the Author (Drama) for "Tiny Alice".

Edward Albee won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "A Delicate Balance", the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "Seascape" and the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "Three Tall Women" He was nominated for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "The Play about the Baby" and the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?".

He was a writer, known for A Delicate Balance (1973), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2017) and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991).

Served as a guest instructor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University in the early to mid-1980s.

His play, "The Zoo Story," was awarded the 1990 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Production at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

1996: Awarded the American National Medal of the Arts by the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, DC.

His play, "The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?," at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 2005 Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Play (Large Theatre).

His play, "A Delicate Balance", at the Redtwist Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, was nominated for the 2011 Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Production of a Play.

In 2014, his first one-act play "The Zoo Story" was staged in Athens, Greece, by THEAMA (Theatre for Disabled People), the first and internationally acclaimed Greek theatre consisted of disabled actors in its main composition (such as the renowned actor and director Vassilis Oikonomou who founded THEAMA in 2010, Panos Zournatzidis, Marina Besiri, Christina Toumba, Giorgos Iliakis and Maria Mourelatou) as well as by non-disabled ones (such as Michalis Tamboukas who played Jerry in "The Zoo Story", Aimiliani Avraam and Efi Toumba). The park bench (where Peter meets Jerry) was theatrically 'transcribed' in the wheelchair used by Panos Zournatzidis, the excellent actor who played Peter, and the production was noted as an acclaimed performance, brilliantly directed by Vassilis Oikonomou. After the performances in Athens, the production continued on tour in other cities of Greece with a fine cast which also included Vassilis Oikonomou, Christina Toumba, Giorgos Iliakis, Maria Mourelatou, Efi Toumba, Aimiliani Avraam and Marina Besiri in roles of persons that come from Jerry's narration, and in their way of existing in his state of being, they get life on stage, some of them in animal figures. The documentary THE.AM.A. (2014), directed by Eliana Perifanou and Maria Sidiropoulou, was filmed mainly during the rehearsals and the performance of "The Zoo Story", depicting the work of this exquisite theatre group. On the occasion of World Theatre Day (WTD) March 27, the documentary was broadcast that day in 2015 by the Greek TV network of Public Television.