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    This document provides biographical information about American playwright Edward Albee. It notes that he was born in Virginia in 1928 and raised by adoptive parents in New York. It then lists many of his famous plays from 1958 to 2009, including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Goat or Who is Sylvia?. The document also lists awards Albee has received, including three Pulitzer Prizes, and provides some personal details about his life and career.

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    John Le

    Drama 101
    Don Welch

    Edward Albee

    -American playwright born in Virginia

    Country of Birth

    United States – Virgina


    March 12, 1928
    -Grew up in Larchmont New York with this adoptive parents

    Plays

    • The Zoo Story (1958)


    • The Death of Bessie Smith (1959)
    • The Sandbox (1959)
    • Fam and Yam (1959)
    • The American Dream (1960)
    • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961–1962)
    • The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1963) (adapted from the novella by Carson McCullers)
    • Tiny Alice (1964)
    • Malcolm (1965) (adapted from the novel by James Purdy)
    • A Delicate Balance (1966)
    • Breakfast at Tiffany's (1966)
    • Everything in the Garden (1967)
    • Box (1968)
    • All Over (1971)
    • Seascape (1974)
    • Listening (1975)
    • Counting the Ways (1976)
    • The Lady From Dubuque (1977–1979)
    • Lolita (adapted from the novel by Vladimir Nabokov) (1981)
    • The Man Who Had Three Arms (1981)
    • Finding the Sun (1982)
    • Marriage Play (1986–1987)
    • Three Tall Women (1990–1991)
    • The Lorca Play (1992)
    • Fragments (1993)
    • The Play About the Baby (1996)
    • The Goat or Who is Sylvia? (2002)
    • Occupant (2001)
    • Knock! Knock! Who's There!? (2003)
    • Peter & Jerry retitled in 2009 as At Home at the Zoo (Act One: Homelife. Act Two: The Zoo
    Story) (2004)
    • Me, Myself and I (2007)
    • At Home At The Zoo (2009)

    Awards

    Albee has received three Pulitzer Prizes for drama for A Delicate Balance (1967), Seascape (1975), and
    Three Tall Women (1994);

    A special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement (2005)

    The Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1980)

    The Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts (both in 1996).

    Personal Facts

    − Edward's life partner Jonathan Thomas, a sculptor, died in 2005


    − adopted by Reed and Frances Albee and raised in New York
    − President of the Edward F. Albee Foundation, Inc, which maintains the William Flanagan Creative
    Persons Center, a writers and artists colony in Montauk, New York
    − Teaches at the School of Theatre at the University of Houston

    Plot Summaries

    Lolita chronicles the life of its narrator and protagonist, Humbert Humbert, focusing on his disastrous
    love affair with a young girl. He falls in love with a 12-year-old girl when he’s 13, but she dies soon
    after and nothing becomes of it. As an adult, he remains obsessed with sexually desirable and sexually
    aware young girls (or “nymphets” as he calls them). Humbert moves into a widow’s house and falls in
    love with her 12-year-old daughter. The rest of the play focuses on their disastrous love affair.

    The Ballad of the Sad Café - Amelia, the proprietor of the Sad Cafe, throws her new husband out of
    their bedroom on their wedding night. Torn between anger and desire the husband finally leaves town
    only to return some years later to find Amelia showering all her affection on a dwarf cousin who has
    come to live with her. At their first meeting the dwarf is hopelessly attracted to the husband. In turn, the
    husband moves back into the Sad Cafe, threatening to run away with the dwarf if Amelia objects. The
    day of reckoning soon arrives and the husband and wife meet to settle their differences with their bare
    hands.

    The Goat or Who is Sylvia - In true Aristotelian fashion, Albee presents us with a hero at the height of
    his powers. Martin is a world-famous, 50-year-old architect chosen to design a 27 billion-dollar dream
    city in the American midwest. As the play starts, he is about to be interviewed by his old friend, Ross,
    for a TV show called People Who Matter. There is only one problem: Martin reveals to Ross that he is
    helplessly, obsessively and physically in love with a goat called Sylvia the Guardian.

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