Beth Henley
Elizabeth "Beth" Becker Henley ( born May 8, 1952 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American playwright who received the Pulitzer Prize for drama for her play Crimes of the Heart 1981.
Biography
The daughter of a lawyer and an actress studied after visiting the Murrah High School in Draper, the field of study Fine Arts at Southern Methodist University and graduated in 1974 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts ( BFA ) from. Then she was 1975-1976 teacher of drama at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign ( UIUC ). In the 1970s, she lived with the actor Stephen Tobolowsky.
In 1979, she made her drama debut with the play Crimes of the Heart, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for drama for 1981. This piece was filmed under the title Crimes of the Heart and was present at the Academy Awards 1987 in the categories Actress ( Sissy Spacek ), Best Supporting Actress ( Tess Harper ) and they even nominated Adapted Screenplay in the category.
Her other stage works include The Miss Firecracker Contest (1979 ), Am I Blue (1982 ), The Wake of Jamey Foster ( 1983), The Debutante Ball ( 1985), The Lucky Spot (1986 ), Abundance (1991 ), Control Freaks (1992 ), Signature (1995 ), L- Play ( 1996), Impossible Marriage ( 1998), Family Week (2000) and last Ridiculous Fraud (2006).
In 1984 she made an appearance as an actress in the film Swing Shift. In addition, she was the author of screenplays such as for the film Miss Firecracker by Thomas Schlamme (1987).
Among the best known performers in her pieces is one of Tom McCamus, the Dora Mavor Moore Award the winning for his performance in the play Abundance in 1994, and Amy Ryan and Beatrice Kaps- Zurmahr in Crimes of the Heart.
External links and sources
- Beth Henley at the Notable Names Database (English)
- Beth Henley at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography ( The Mississippi Writers Page )
- Biography ( imagi - nation.com )
- Author
- Literature ( 20th century)
- Literature ( English )
- Drama
- Actor
- Pulitzer Prize winner
- Americans
- Born in 1952
- Woman