MARSHA NORMAN
Marsha Norman was awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize, Susan Smith Blackburn
Prize, Hull-Warriner, and Drama
Desk Awards for 'Night Mother, which received its world premiere at
the A.R.T. in 1982. Her play Traveller in the Dark also premiered
at the A.R.T. in 1984. Ms. Norman won the 1992 Tony Award and Drama Desk
awards for The Secret Garden; and the John Gassner Medallion,
Newsday Oppenheimer award, and the American Theatre Critics Association
Citation for Getting Out. Other plays include Third and Oak,
The
Laundromat, The Poolhall, The Holdup, Traveler in the
Dark, Sarah and Abraham, Loving Daniel Boone, and
Trudy Blue. Published work includes Four Plays and a novel,
The Fortune Teller. Television and
film
credits include Face of
a
Stranger, starring Gena Rowlands and Tyne Daley. Grants and awards
include National Endowment for
the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters; Ms. Norman also
serves on the council of the Dramatists Guild. Ms. Norman was born in
Louisville, Kentucky; received her B.A. from Agnes Scott College; and her
M.A. from the University of
Louisville. Since 1994 she has served on the faculty of
The Juilliard School.
Artists Offstage
American Repertory Theatre
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