Free. Registration Requested. At this event Pulitzer prize and Tony Award-winning playwright, John Patrick Shanley will discuss the body of his work and work in progress with New York Stage & Film's Artistic Director, Ian Belknap. John Patrick Shanley's plays include Prodigal Son, Outside Mullingar (Tony nomination), Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Savage in Limbo, Italian-American Reconciliation, Welcome to the Moon, Four Dogs and a Bone, Dirty Story, Defiance, Beggars in the House of Plenty, and Brooklyn Laundry. His theatrical work is performed extensively across the United States and around the world. For his play, Doubt, he received both the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In the arena of screenwriting, he has ten films to his credit, most recently Wild Mountain Thyme, with Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, and Christopher Walken. His film of Doubt, with Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis, which he also directed, was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay. Other films include Five Corners (Special Jury Prize, Barcelona Film Festival), Alive, Joe Versus the Volcano (which he also directed), and Live From Baghdad for HBO (Emmy nomination). For his script of Moonstruck he received both the Writers Guild of America Award and an Academy Award for best original screenplay. In 2009, The Writers Guild of America awarded Mr. Shanley the Lifetime Achievement In Writing. Ian Belknap is a former Artistic Director of Tony Award-winning theatre The Acting Company (TAC). Described by The New York Times as producing with  curatorial inspiration,” Belknap has directed, produced, or commissioned a wide range of dramatic literature from new plays by Marcus Gardley, Rebecca Gilman, Nambi E. Kelley, Lisa Peterson, and Betty Shamieh to reinterpretations of William Shakespeare (15 productions), Sean O’Casey, and John Steinbeck. Belknap’s directorial and producing work has been seen from coast to coast in 800 US cities and 48 states, extensively off-Broadway and at leading resident theatres nationwide, including 59E59 Theaters, Arizona Theatre Company, Boise Contemporary Theatre, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Everyman Theatre, The Guthrie, Hudson Valley Shakespeare, New York Theatre Workshop, New Jersey Shakespeare Theatre, New Victory, Pearl Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Resident Ensemble Players, and Theatre for a New Audience, among others. In recent years, he has also worked in television and film, developing content for major studios and networks. In addition, Ian has extensive experience building partnerships with academic communities, working with 28 universities and colleges in 17 states. Ian has directed at The Juilliard School and has an ongoing relationship with Grad Acting at New York University. Raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Ian lives in New York City with his wife, Lauren, and their daughter, Thea. 
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