John Patrick Shanley
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John Patrick Shanley (born in 1950) is a playwright from the Bronx. He was educated by the Irish Christian Brothers and the Sisters of Charity. He is famous for insisting in his contract that not a single word can be changed in the screenplays that he writes. He is a graduate of New York University.
For his script for the 1987 film, Moonstruck, Shanley won the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. In 2004 Shanley was inducted into the Bronx Walk of Fame.
In 2005, John Patrick Shanley's play Doubt was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Drama Desk Award and Tony Award for Best Play.
In his creative bio for Doubt, Shanley writes:
JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY (Playwright). John Patrick Shanley is from the Bronx. He was thrown out of St. Helena 's kindergarten. He was banned from St. Anthony's hot lunch program for life. He was expelled from Cardinal Spellman High School. He was placed on academic probation by New York University and instructed to appear before a tribunal if he wished to return. When asked why he had been treated in this way by all these institutions, he burst into tears and said he had no idea. Then he went in the United States Marine Corps. He did fine. He's still doing okay. Mr. Shanley is interested in your reactions. Please send your impressions to shanleysmoney@aol.com.
[edit] Screenplays
- The Waltz of the Tulips (2006)
- Live From Baghdad (2002) (TV, Emmy)
- Congo (1995)
- Alive (1993)
- Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) - also directed
- The January Man (1989)
- Moonstruck (1987)
- Five Corners (1987)
- Four Dogs and a Bone (?)
[edit] Stage plays
- Welcome to the Moon (1982)
- Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (1983)
- Savage In Limbo (1984)
- The Dreamer Examines His Pillow (1985)
- Italian American Reconciliation (1986)
- Women of Manhattan (1986)
- All For Charity (1987)
- Italian American Reconciliation (1988)
- The Big Funk (1990)
- Beggars in the House of Plenty (1991)
- What Is This Everything? (1992)
- Kissing Christine (1995)
- Missing Marisa (1995)
- Psychopathia Sexualis (1998)
- Where's My Money? (2001)
- Cellini (2001)
- Dirty Story (2003)
- Doubt (2004)
- Sailor's Song (2004)
- Four Dogs and a Bone (2004)
- Defiance (2005)
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