Robert Schenkkan

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Robert Frederic Schenkkan Jr. (born March 19, 1953) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor.

In 1992, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Dramatic Drama for his play The Kentucky Cycle, and his play All the Way received the 2014 Tony Award for Best Play.

He has three Emmy nominations and one WGA Award.

Early years

Schenkkan was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, son of Jean Gregory (née McKenzie) and Robert Frederic Schenkkan, a professor at The University of Texas at Austin, and a public television executive. He grew up in Austin, Texas. He earned a B.A. as a Plan II Honors student. In Drama, magna cum lauded from the University of Texas, Austin in 1975 (Phi Beta Kappa, Friars' Society, UT Texas Exes Distinguished Young Alumnus Award and E. William Doty College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumnus Award) and an M.F.A. In 1977, Cornell University received a degree in Theatre Arts. He lived in New York City and then Los Angeles, California, where he spent time as both a writer and an actor in film, television, and theatre. Since 1990, he has concentrated on his writing and divides his time between New York City and Seattle. Schenkkan is of Dutch-Jewish (father) and Scottish and English (mother) descent.

Personal life

Schenkkan has been married twice before. He married Mary Anne Dorward in 1984 and had two children, Sarah Schenkkan and Joshua Schenkkan. In 1999, the couple divorced. Maria Dahvana Headley, a writer, was his second marriage. In 2012, they divorced. Schenkkan is Ben McKenzie's uncle.

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Career

Schenkkan is the author of ten full-length plays. The Waters of Babylon premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in February, 2005. The play is unrelated to Stephen Vincent Benét's short story By the Waters of Babylon or its subsequent adaptation. At the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in December 2005, Lewis and Clark reached the Euphrates for the first time. Miss Hollywood and King Neptune's Marriage premiered at the University of Texas in Austin in November 2005. In February 2006, the Devil and Daniel Webster appeared at the Seattle Children's Theatre for the first time.

Handler, a play about a snake handling church, opened at the Actors Express Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. Heaven On Earth received the Julie Harris/Beverly Hills Theatre Guild Award, participated in the Eugene O'Neill Playwright's Conference, and premiered Off-Broadway at the WPA Theatre. The Studio Arena theatre held its final Passages. The LA Weekly named Tachinoki as one of the Critics' Choice at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in Los Angeles, and he was the first to be on display. The Dream Thief, his older brother's new play for young audiences, had its premiere at Milwaukee's First Stage.

Schenkkan has produced several one-act plays that have been collected and published by Dramatists Play Service as Conversations with the Spanish Lady. The Survivalist, which premiered at Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana festival, competed in the EST Marathon in NYC, Canada's DuMaurier Festival, and the Edinburgh Festival, where it earned the "Best of the Fringe" award.

The Kentucky Cycle underwent many years of refinement, beginning in New York City with New Dramatists and Ensemble Studio Theatre. The two part epic was later workshopped at the Mark Taper Forum in EST-LA, the Long Wharf Theatre, and the Sundance Institute. The complete "cycle" was given the most significant grant ever awarded by the Fund for New American Plays and had its world premiere in 1991 at the Intiman Theatre in Seattle (Liz Huddle, producer), where it set box office records. It was the focal point of the Mark Taper forum's 25th Anniversary Season in 1992. It was named the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the first time in the history of the award, recognizing a performance that had not been presented in New York City until recently. Both the PEN Centre West and the Los Angeles Awards have been given to it. Best Play is the prize at Drama Critics Circle. It opened on Broadway in 1993 and was a recipient of a Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle award.

On July 28, 2012, his play All the Way, about President Lyndon Baines Johnson's behind-the-scenes political maneuvering, premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. This work, according to Schenkkan, is a play about "the morality of politics and power." All the Way won the ATCA/Steinberg Award for Best Play and the inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Award for Drama Inspired by History in 2012. On September 19, 2013, the American Repertory Theatre in Boston welcomed Bryan Cranston to the audience, but it quickly sold out the entire run. The play premiered at the Neil Simon Theatre on March 6, 2014, and was voted the 2014 Tony Award for Best Play, with Cranston receiving a Tony Award for his role as Lyndon Baines Johnson. In July 2014 and September 2019, a sequel titled The Great Society premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and then on Broadway in September 2019.

Schenkkan's film work includes: The Quiet American, directed by Phillip Noyce, and starring Michael Caine (who received an Oscar nomination). He wrote four episodes of The Pacific (HBO, 2010), for which he was nominated for two Emmy Awards and the Best Miniseries Writing award. The Andromeda Strain (A&E, 2009), Spartacus (USA Network, 2006), and Crazy Horse (TNT). In 2005, Sony Pictures hired him to write a script based on Marvel Comics' Killraven's Killraven. Schenkkan was also selected as the writer for the Icon Comics version of Incognito, which was published by the Marvel imprint Icon Comics. All the Way's television version was shot for HBO in 2016, with Cranston reprising his role as Lyndon Baines Johnson and premiered in May. He co-wrote Hacksaw Ridge, directed by Mel Gibson, earlier this year.

Schenkkan has been awarded grants from New York State, the California Arts Council, and the Vogelstein and Arthur foundations. He is a critic of New Dramatists and a supporter of the Ensemble Studio Theatre and the National Theatre Conference. He served as the 2012 Thornton Wilder Fellow at the MacDowell Colony and as a member of the American Theater's College of Fellows.

Schenkkan has appeared in many films, including the 1989 film Out Cold; he also appeared in the 1990 cult drama Pump Up the Volume, in which he played David Deaver, the high school guidance counselor. In the Star Trek: Dexter Remmick's "Coming of Age" and "Conspiracy," he appeared as Lieutenant Commander Dexter Remmick.

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