Edward Albee

Edward Franklin Albee III (born March 12, 1928) is a leading American playwright known for intelligent, well-crafted and often unsympathetic examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Absurdism that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett, and Eugene Ionesco. Younger American playwrights, such as Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel, credit Albee's daring mix of theatricalism and biting dialogue with helping to reinvent the post-war American theatre in the early 1960s. Albee's dedication to continuing to evolve his voice--as evidenced in later productions such as The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? (2000) -- also routinely marks him as distinct from other American playwrights of his era.

Plays

• The Zoo Story (1958)
• The Death of Bessie Smith (1959)
• The Sandbox (1959)
• Fam and Yam (1959)
• The American Dream (play) (1960)
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961-62, Tony Award)
• The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1963) (adapted from the novel by Carson McCullers)
• Tiny Alice (1964)
• Malcolm (1965) (adapted from the novel by James Purdy)
• A Delicate Balance (1966)
• Everything in the Garden (1967) (adapted from a play by British playwright Giles Cooper)
• Box (play) and Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (1968)
• All Over (1971)
• Seascape (1974)
• Listening (play) (1975)
• Counting the Ways (1976)
• The Lady From Dubuque (1977-79)
• Lolita (adapted from the novel by Vladimir Nabokov)
• The Man Who Had Three Arms (1981)
• Finding the Sun (1982)
• Marriage Play (1986-87)
• Three Tall Women (1990-91)
• The Lorca Play (1992)
• Fragments (1993)
• The Play About the Baby (1996)
• The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (2000, Tony Award)
• Occupant (play) (2001)
• Peter & Jerry (Act One: Homelife. Act Two: The Zoo Story) (2004)