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  1. "Wallace Shawn's career as a playwright has been uncompromisingly devoted to proving that theater is an ideal medium for exploring difficult matters of great consequence. The qualities that make his dramatic work so challenging, sensual, mind-and-soul expanding, so indispensible, are equally in evidence in the marvelous political and theatrical essays collected here."--Tony Kushner

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  2. WALLACE SHAWN is an Obie Award-winning playwright and a noted stage and screen actor. His plays The Designated Mourner and The Fever have recently been produced as films, and his translation of Threepenny Opera was recently performed on Broadway.

  3. Aug 18, 2022 · This essay is included in Wallace Shawn’s new collection of essays, Sleeping Among Sheep Under a Starry Sky, published by Europa Editions on 18 August. To help the Guardian and Observer, order ...

  4. Nov 7, 2014 · Provocative and intellectually demanding, the plays of Wallace Shawn are as multifaceted and enigmatic as the man himself, known to many from his roles as an...

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  5. Wallace Shawn is one of America’s most significant playwrights, long overdue for a major retrospective. André Gregory, his My Dinner With Andr é co-star, has been directing Shawn’s plays for forty years, and here he directs his two most recent plays: the first New York revival of the acclaimed masterwork The Designated Mourner and the ...

  6. Jun 29, 2024 · Wallace Michael Shawn was born on November 12, 1943, in New York City, New York. He is the son of Cecille Lyon and William Shawn. His mother was a journalist and his father was The New Yorker’s editor.

  7. Shawn New Yorkban született, zsidó családban. Szülei William Shawn (1907–1992), a The New Yorker hosszú távú szerkesztője és Cecille Shawn (1906–2005) újságíró voltak. Két fiatalabb ikertestvére van: Allen, aki zeneszerző, és Mary Shawn, aki autista és intézetben él.

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