Richard Greenberg

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Richard Greenberg (born February 22, 1958) is an American playwright and television journalist best known for his subpoenas of middle-class American life.

More than 25 plays premiered on and off-broadway in New York City, and eight at the South Coast Repertory Theatre (Costa Mesa, California), including The Violet Hour, Everett Beekin, and Hurrah at Last.Greenberg, who is perhaps best known for his 2003 Tony Award-winning play, Take Me Out, which discusses the aftermath after a Major League Baseball player openly announced that he is gay to the public.

The performance premiered in London and ran in New York as the first collaboration between England's Donmar Warehouse and New York's Public Theater in New York.

Take Me Out's Broadway debut in early 2003 gained widespread critical acclaim for Greenberg and several prestigious awards.

Background and education

Greenberg grew up in East Meadow, New York, a middle-class Long Island town in Nassau County east of New York City. Leon Greenberg, his father, was an executive for New York's Century Theaters movie company, and his mother Shirley was a homemaker. Greenberg graduated from East Meadow High School in 1976 and then continued to Princeton University, where he earned a baccalaure with an A.B. In English, the expression is in English. Greenberg wrote "A Romantic Life - A Novel" as part of his education. Greenberg, a future Harvard economics professor, studied creative writing under Joyce Carol Oates and met with futuristic Harvard economics professor Greg Mankiw at Princeton. Later, he attended Harvard for graduate studies in English and American literature, but he dropped out of the program when he was accepted to the Yale School of Drama's playwriting program in 1985.

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Career

Greenberg's plays include The Dazzle, The American Plan, Live Under Water, and The Author's Voice, as well as Take Me Out. In 2002, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, and David Strathairn appeared in his adaptation of August Strindberg's Dance of Death on Broadway, starring Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, and David Strathairn.

While at Yale, he received the George Oppenheimer Award from Newsday in 1985 for The Bloodletters. He was the first winner of the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award for a playwright in mid-career in 1998.

Greenberg appeared on three shows in 2013: on Broadway, an adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Assembled Parties, and the book Far From Heaven, which opened in June 2013 at Playwrights Horizons.

In April 2009, Our Mother's Brief Affair premiered at the South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa. Jenny O'Hara, Matthew Arkin, Arye Gross, and Marin Hinkle were all cast members, with Pam MacKinnon directing. The SCRT sponsored this job. On December 28, 2015 (previews), and then officially on January 20, 2016, starring Linda Lavin, the play opened on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, which was produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club on December 28, 2015.

In previews and then officially on December 5, his play The Babylon Line premiered Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater on November 10, 2016, and officially on December 5. Josh Radnor as a writing tutor and Elizabeth Reaser as his student are both directed by Terry Kinney. In June and July 2014, Radnor was first seen at the Powerhouse Theater in New York Stage and Film & Vassar College's Powerhouse Theatre for the first time.

Greenberg's "most notable" interest is described in the Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights as "both" current events "and (also) the past." He has a strong "tendency to draw on historical figures or events — the Lost Generation, the Collyer Brothers, the New York Yankees — as sources for his information. He is said to have a "witty use of words."

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