Terrence McNally
 
Terrence McNally won Tony Awards for best play for LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! and MASTER CLASS. In addition, LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! won the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award, and the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for best play. His other plays include CORPUS CHRISTI, which was named one of the best plays of 1998 by Time magazine; A PERFECT GANESH, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; LIPS TOGETHER, TEETH APART; THE LISBON TRAVIATA; FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE; IT’S ONLY A PLAY, DEDICATION or THE STUFF OF DREAMS, SOME MEN and DEUCE. He has also written the librettos for the musicals THE VISIT, THE RINK and KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN (all with John Kander and Fred Ebb), THE FULL MONTY, RAGTIME and A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE.

Earlier stage works include BAD HABITS, THE RITZ, WHERE HAS TOMMY FLOWERS GONE?, and AND THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT. He has written a number of television scripts, including ANDRE’S MOTHER, for which he won an Emmy Award. Mr McNally has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller grant, a Lucille Lortel Award, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A member of the Dramatists Guild since 1970, Mr McNally was raised in Corpus Christi, Texas, and makes his home in New York City.