(1938-02-05) February 5, 1938 (age 86) Jackson Heights, Queens, New York, U.S.
Occupation
Playwright
Education
Georgetown University (BA) Yale University (MFA)
Period
1964–present
Notable works
The House of Blue Leaves; Six Degrees of Separation
Spouse
Adele Chatfield-Taylor
John Guare (/ɡɛr/GERR; born February 5, 1938) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He is best known as the author of The House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation.
JohnGuare (/ɡɛr/ GERR; born February 5, 1938) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He is best known as the author of The House of Blue Leaves and...
world to themselves by a chain of five others. It was popularized in JohnGuare's 1990 play Six Degrees of Separation. The idea is sometimes generalized...
(1999). For her role as Bananas Shaughnessy in the Broadway revival of the JohnGuare play The House of Blue Leaves (2011) she received a nomination for a Tony...
Actor in a Play for his performance in the 1986 Broadway revival of JohnGuare's The House of Blue Leaves, and went on to achieve wider recognition for...
was back in New York City starring in the play Nantucket Sleigh Ride by JohnGuare, at the Lincoln Center Theatre. In this off-beat play, Larroquette portrayed...
sentenced to a term of 18 months to four years in prison. Playwright JohnGuare became interested in Hampton's story through his friendship with Inger...
March 1982 scuttled plans for the film. The script was co-written with JohnGuare, who also co-wrote Atlantic City, also by Malle, who would turn the unproduced...
Success: The Musical was created by Marvin Hamlisch, Craig Carnelia, and JohnGuare in 2002. One night in Manhattan, slick, up-and-coming press agent Sidney...
from the Yale School of Drama. Her teachers included Richard Nelson and JohnGuare. Jim Nicola, producer of Belleville at the New York Theatre Workshop,...
The House of Blue Leaves is a play by American playwright JohnGuare which premiered Off-Broadway in 1971, and was revived in 1986, both Off-Broadway and...
debut in Two Gentlemen of Verona — The Musical, working with playwright JohnGuare. She also appeared on Broadway in 1973 in a supporting role in No Hard...
Schapiro The Rothschilds Sherman Yellen 1972 (26th) Two Gentlemen of Verona JohnGuare and Mel Shapiro Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death Melvin Van Peebles...
playwrights of color to accomplish this feat. Jon Robin Baitz, Gina Gionfriddo, JohnGuare, A.R. Gurney, Richard Greenberg, Tina Howe, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Stephen...
Adapted from the John Fowles novel by Harold Pinter, it starred Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep. In 1982, Reisz directed JohnGuare's Gardenia Dreams on...
A Free Man of Color is a play written by JohnGuare. The play is set in New Orleans in 1801 as the United States is attempting to purchase Louisiana from...
Michael Frayn Athol Fugard John Osborne David Rabe Peter Shaffer Tennessee Williams 3 nominations Jean Anouilh Brian Friel JohnGuare David Hare Hugh Leonard...
Alice Crimmins, aired on CBS Feb. 21, 1978 Landscape of the Body play by JohnGuare, opened in 1977 Two Small Bodies play by Neal Bell, opened in 1977 Two...
called the police. She told her close friend JohnGuare, a writer, about her experiences with Hampton, and Guare wrote a play based on the story titled Six...
Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak. 1971 Soon by Joseph M. Kookolis and Scott Fagan 1971 Two Gentlemen of Verona by JohnGuare, Mel Shapiro and Galt...
performance as Bananas in a 1986 revival of The House of Blue Leaves by JohnGuare. She starred as playwright Lillian Hellman in the 2002 Nora Ephron play...
Carol (2008) as John Plunkett Endgame (2010) as Hamm Slowgirl (2013) as Sterling The Minutes (2017) as Mayor Superba Gardenia by JohnGuare (1983) as Unknown...