John Patrick Shanley

John Patrick Shanley (born in 1950) is a playwright from the Bronx. He was educated by the Irish Christian Brothers and the Sisters of Charity. He is famous for insisting in his contract that not a single word can be changed in the screenplays that he writes. He is a graduate of New York University.

Stage plays

• Welcome to the Moon (1982)
• Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (1983)
• Savage In Limbo (1984)
• The Dreamer Examines His Pillow (1985)
• Italian American Reconciliation (1986)
• Women of Manhattan (1986)
• All For Charity (1987)
• Italian American Reconciliation (1988)
• The Big Funk (1990)
• Beggars in the House of Plenty (1991)
• What Is This Everything? (1992)
• Kissing Christine (1995)
• Missing Marisa (1995)
• Psychopathia Sexualis (1998)
• Where's My Money? (2001)
• Cellini (2001)
• Dirty Story (2003)
• Doubt (2004)
• Sailor's Song (2004)