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unusual facts about Edward Albee


Beyond the Forest

The film contains the line spoken by Davis, "What a dump!", later also said by her in the film Dead Ringer (1964), and made famous by being quoted in the opening scene of Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962).


André Landzaat

During that time, he acquainted Edward Albee, who pointed him to study with the master of the method acting, Lee Strasberg himself in New York City.

Anne Marie Ottersen

She has been working at Nationaltheatret (the National Theatre) since 1970, and acted in roles such as "Polly Peachum" in Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, and "Martha" in Edward Albees Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.

Book Soup

It also began earning a reputation for art, photography, film and music books as well as for hosting high-profile events featuring authors and celebrities such as Gore Vidal, James Ellroy, Mikal Gilmore, Edward Albee, Robert Wagner, and Tom Stoppard.

Damien Luce

As an actor, Damien Luce studied at the Alain De Bock drama studio, where he worked on authors such as Racine (Pyrrhus and Oreste in Andromaque), Antiochus in Bérénice), Claudel (Mesa in Le Partage de midi), Marivaux (Arlequin in Arlequin poli par l’amour), Anouilh (The King in Becket) Romains (Knock), Albee (George in Who is afraid of Virginia Wolf ?), Ribes (George in Les Cent Pas).

Dimitris Yeros

In 2010, Insight Editions-California published the book Shades of Love with photographs, inspired by the poems of Constantine P. Cavafy with a foreword by Edward Albee and introduction by John Wood.

Drama Desk Award

The Drama Desk was the first New York theater organization to give awards to talents such as Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein and George C. Scott.

Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

In addition, the album namechecks many things commonly associated with glam rock, such as drugs, art and fashion; "The Past Is a Grotesque Animal" alludes to Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and specifically mentions Georges Bataille's novella Story of the Eye.

Jack Canfora

Curtainup.com wrote "Canfora, who skillfully embraces both acting and writing, may not leave any of the characters unscarred or unscathed, but we are certainly kept alert and empathetic to their quandaries." "The Newark Star-Ledger called the play "funny and fascinating," adding that "Canfora has wonderfully incisive wit". The Newark Star Ledger nominated "Place Setting" for "Best Play" for 2007-2008 along with plays by Edward Albee, Theresa Rebeck, and Elaine May.

Neal Du Brock

Neal Du Brock directed the world-premieres of many important plays including Edward Albee's Box (play) and Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky (starring Christopher Walken and Charles Durning).

Nederlander Theatre

A wide variety of shows have been presented at the venue, including the Mercury Theatre production of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, Noël Coward's Private Lives, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and the Tony award winning Rent.

Ott Sepp

Sepp has appeared in stage productions at the Vanemuine theatre based on the works of: Oskar Luts, Rudyard Kipling, Juhan Liiv, Emily Brontë, George Bernard Shaw, Ole Lund Kirkegaard, Edward Albee and William Shakespeare.

Paul Goma

An international appeal for his release was launched, among the signatories being Eugène Ionesco, Jean-Paul Sartre, Arthur Miller and Edward Albee.

Petr Lébl

He met the US ambassador Luers and attended parties organized by the US embassy, where he met John Updike, Edward Albee and William Styron.

Robert D'Avanzo

He has studied and trained with some of the most notable figures in the American Theatre, Joshua Logan, Edward Albee and Hume Cronyn.

Robert Drivas

These included playwrights Terrence McNally, whose play The Ritz he directed in 1975, and Edward Albee, who directed Drivas in the 1983 premiere of Albee's harshly received play The Man Who Had Three Arms.

Teddy Dunn

At Phillips Academy, Andover, he became involved in theatre, playing the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's The Zoo Story and the lead character of Alceste in Molière's The Misanthrope, directed by Kevin Heelan.

Vivian Beaumont Theater

He had the ad hoc assistance of a five-member directorate consisting of Woody Allen, Sarah Caldwell, Liviu Ciulei, Robin Phillips, and Ellis Rabb, with Edward Albee as the company playwright.

Wilmington Drama League

The talents and energies of thousands of volunteers - actors, directors, set designers and builders, lighting and sound engineers, as well as costume, makeup, and prop technicians - have transformed our stage into the compelling fantasy worlds created by playwrights ranging from Edward Albee, Beckett and Chekhov to David Mamet and Arthur Miller, Simon and Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde and Williams.


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Robin Hemley

He has had artist residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Ragdale, and the Edward Albee Foundation.