About the Author
Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis is a longtime member of NYC"s LAByrinth Theater Company. His plays have been produced on five continents and throughout the United States. They include: the extended, sold out run of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Our Lady of 121st Street (10 best plays of 2003; Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Best Play Nominations), Jesus Hopped the "A" Train (Edinburgh Fringe First Award, Olivier Nomination as London"s Best New Play, Barrymore Award, Detroit Free Press Best Play Award), and In Arabia We"d All Be Kings(10 Best of "99, TimeOut New York, critics pick, TimeOut London). All four plays were originally produced by LAByrinth, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, and are published through Dramatists Play Service and by Faber and Faber. Stephen was awarded a 2004 TCG fellowship, attended the 2004 Sundance Screenwriter"s Lab, was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by FilmMaker magazine, and appeared in Entertainment Weekly s 2005 Summer Must List. Television writing credits include NYPD Blue , The Sopranos , David Milch s CBS drama Big Apple , and Shane Salerno"s NBC drama UC: Undercover . As an actor, he has appeared in Brett C. Leonard s Guinea Pig Solo produced at the Public Theatre in New York, and played leading roles in two recent films: Todd Solondz"s Palindromes, and Brett C. Leonard"s award winning Jailbait opposite Michael Pitt. Currently, he is writing his first feature film for Scott Rudin Productions, to be directed by George C. Wolfe. He lives in New York City
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