Edward Albee

Posted September 19, 2008, 6:09 pm in Arts



Edward Albee
Born March 12, 1928.

Hailed as America's greatest living playwright. Three-time Pulitzer winner. Albee's most famous plays include Zoo Story, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Seascape, and Three Tall Women.

After the Age of Seventy

• At age 80, premiered a new play, Me, Myself & I.
• At age 80, directed two of his plays at the Cherry Lane Theatre as part of a season of Albee productions across the New York area.
• At age 80, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared his birthday, "Edward Albee Day."
  

Quotes:

• “I’m not in a hurry,” he said. “I keep having ideas. The creative mind doesn’t seem to have collapsed. I’ll worry more about that when I’m 90. Meanwhile I take pretty good care of myself, and I have no enthusiasm whatever about dying. I think it’s a terrible waste of time, and I don’t want to participate in it.”

© 2006-2009. Growing Bolder Media Group. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.