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American visual artist and film-maker, Joseph Cornell was born December 24, 1903, in Nyack, New York. His parents, Joseph Cornell and Helen Ten Broeck Storms Cornell, came from socially prominent families of Dutch ancestry. After his father’s death in 1917, […]

Born September 15, 1938, American playwright, historian and author Charles Mee is known for his collage-like style of playwriting, which makes use of radical reconstructions of found texts. He is also a Special Lecturer of theater at Columbia University. […]

American playwright and director Robert O’Hara has written four shows including Insurrection: Holding History, Bootycandy (Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Drama), Barbecue, Mankind. O’Hara was nominated for the 2020 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for his […]

Jackie Sibblies Drury is a first-generation American playwright. She grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey, raised by her Jamaican immigrant mother and grandmother. Her mother enrolled her at a private school in New Jersey where she witnessed the persistence […]

Before Bess Wohl became an American playwright and screenwriter she could be seen in a few television series, including “Law & Order” (1990-2010), “Cold Case” (2003-2010) and “CSI: New York” (2004-2013). Wohl grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where she […]