Christopher Durang was born on January 2, 1949, in Montclair, New Jersey. Educated at Harvard College and the Yale School of Drama[?], he has had plays performed nationwide, including on and off broadway, including Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You; Beyond Therapy; Baby With the Bathwater; The Nature and Purpose of the Universe; Titanic; A History of the American Film; The Marriage of Bette and Boo; Laughing Wild; 'Dentity Crisis; The Actor's Nightmare; and Betty's Summer Vacation. He received Obie Awards[?] for Sister Mary Ignatius and The Marriage of Bette and Boo, received a Tony award nomination for "Best Book of a Musical." He has also written a number of screenplays including Beyond Therapy; The Nun Who Shot Liberty Valence; The House of Husbands (which he co-authored with Wendy Wasserstein); and The Adventures of Lola.
Durang has also performed as an actor for both stage and screen.
Durang has been awarded numerous fellowships and high profile grants including a Guggenheim, a Rockefeller, the CBS Playwriting Fellowship, the Lecompte du Nouy Foundation Grant, and the Kenyon Festival Theatre Playwriting Prize. He is a member of the influential Dramatists Guild Council, and is co-chair of the playwriting program at Juilliard[?].
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