Jerome Lawrence

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Jerome Lawrence Schwartz, born Jerome Lawrence Schwartz (1915 – February 29, 2004) was an American playwright and author.

Lawrence joined in 1938 and the University of California, Los Angeles, to help create Armed Forces Radio.

The two developed a relationship over the course of their lives and continued to collaborate on screenplays and musicals until Lee's death in 1994. Lawrence and Lee were awarded an award for their 1955 play Inspirit the Wind, which was based on the Scopes Trial.

Lawrence explains the couple's performances as "shar[ing] the theme of every individual's body's highest virtue, as well as the mind's lifelong fight against limit and censorship.

The two actors deliberately stayed off Broadway later in their careers and established the American Playwrights Theater in 1963 to help promote their performances.

Lawrence continued to write plays in his Malibu, California home after Lee's death.

He died in Malibu on February 29, 2004 from a stroke-related illness.

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Life and career

Jerome Lawrence Schwartz was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 14, 1915. Lawrence Schwartz' father, Samuel Schwartz, owned a printing press, while his mother, Sarah (née Rogen), wrote poetry and did volunteer work. Lawrence graduated from Glenville High School in 1933 and earned a Bachelor's degree in 1937. Lawrence was initiated into the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, a historically Jewish social fraternity, as a student at Ohio State. He completed graduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, two years later.

Lawrence worked for several small newspapers as a reporter/editor before moving to radio as a writer for CBS. Lawrence co-created with Aleen Leslie the radio program A Date with Judy, which was based on Leslie's "One Girl Chorus" column in the Pittsburgh Press in 1941. Lawrence appeared at the show in 1943.

Lawrence and Lee began working with Armed Forces Radio during WWII; Lawrence and Lee became the most prolific writing team in radio, with such long-running series as Favorite Stories among others.

Lawrence and Lee performed Inherit the Wind, a classic American theatre, in 1955. They also worked on the plays Auntie Mame, The Incomparable Max, and First Monday in October, among other things. They formed the American Playwrights' Theatre in 1965, a project to escape the Broadway stage's commercialization, which influenced the development of the professional regional theatre company. The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, the American Playwrights Theatre, was produced by the American Playwrights Theatre and premiered at Lawrence's alma mater, Ohio State University, which also commissioned a play on James Thurber's life and times (1972).

They collaborated on 39 projects, including a 1956 musical interpretation of James Hilton's Lost Horizon titled Shangri-La with the author himself. Auntie Mame was also turned into the hit musical Mame with composer Jerry Herman, which also received a Tony Award for its actress, Angela Lansbury. Lawrence and Lee's collaboration with Herman was less fruitful, with Lansbury, Dear World, also starring Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot. They co-wrote a script for a made-for-television Pride and Prejudice film, which never got to be released.

Several of Lawrence and Lee's plays draw on events from history to address current events. Through a fictionalized version of the Scope Monkey Trial, Init the Wind (1955) addressed intellectual liberty and McCarthyism. All Here (1959), a publication of the Gang, investigated government graft in the 1920s. The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (1970) was a Vietnam-era chronicle of Thoreau's resistance to a war in a distant past.

Lawrence teaches playwriting in the University of Southern California's Master of Professional Writing Program.

Lawrence's one Tony Award nomination was for Best Book of a Musical for Mame.

He died as a result of a stroke in Malibu, California, where he died as a result of stress.

In Lawrence and Lee's honor at the Ohio State University in 1986, the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, a research center, and archive was established.

Paula Robison, a flutist, is his niece.

Lawrence is assisted by Will Willoughby, his companion of fifteen years.

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