¿Quién salió con Edward Albee?

Edward Franklin Albee III (Washington, Estados Unidos; 12 de marzo de 1928-Montauk, condado de Suffolk, Nueva York, Estados Unidos; 16 de septiembre de 2016)​ fue un dramaturgo y filántropo estadounidense. Introdujo en gran parte de su país las nuevas tendencias dramáticas europeas de la segunda mitad del siglo XX.

Su obra cumbre y más conocida es Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962),​ obra de gran éxito en los escenarios internacionales que alcanzó popularidad gracias a su adaptación al cine en 1966. También se destacan sus obras The Zoo Story / Historia del zoo (1958), The Sandbox (1959) y una versión de la obra musical que había fracasado sobre la obra de Capote Breakfast at Tiffany's (1966). Sus obras son consideradas profundas y a menudo presentan un examen crítico de la condición moderna.^{[cita requerida]} Sus primeras obras presentan un dominio y americanización del teatro del absurdo que tuvo su apogeo en las obras de escritores europeos tales como Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett, y Eugène Ionesco. Dramaturgos estadounidenses modernos como Paula Vogel, le dan crédito a la mezcla que hace Albee de teatralidad y diálogo punzante para ayudar a reinventar el teatro de Estados Unidos de posguerra hacia comienzos de la década de 1960.

Recibió tres veces el premio Pulitzer de teatro por A Delicate Balance (1967), Seascape (1975) y Three Tall Women (1994).

Terrence McNally (November 3, 1938 – March 24, 2020) was an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. Described as "the bard of American theater" and "one of the greatest contemporary playwrights the theater world has yet produced," McNally was the recipient of five Tony Awards. He won the Tony Award for Best Play for Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class and the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime, and received the 2019 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1996, and he also received the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 and the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2018, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the highest recognition of artistic merit in the United States. His other accolades included an Emmy Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, four Drama Desk Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, two Obie Awards, and three Hull-Warriner Awards.

His career spanned six decades, and his plays, musicals, and operas were routinely performed all over the world. He also wrote screenplays, teleplays, and a memoir. Active in the regional and off-Broadway theatre movements as well as on Broadway, he was one of the few playwrights of his generation to have successfully passed from the avant-garde to mainstream acclaim. His work centered on the difficulties of and urgent need for human connection. He was vice-president of the Council of the Dramatists Guild from 1981 to 2001.

He died of complications from COVID-19 on March 24, 2020, at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Florida.