Bruce Norris (playwright)

Bruce Norris ( born May 16, 1960 in Texas) is an American playwright who in 2011 was honored for his play Clybourne Park won the Pulitzer Prize for drama.

Life

Norris graduated after school a degree in Theatre Studies at Northwestern University and graduated in 1982. He then worked as an actor at various theaters including the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, but also the Broadway theaters where he performed in plays by David Hirson, Wendy Wasserstein and Neil Simon. As a theater actor he has been nominated three times for the Chicago Joseph Jefferson Award and indeed for his depictions in Puntila and His Hired Man ( 1986), The Mystery of Irma Vep (1987 ) as well as Black Snow ( 1993).

He is also employed as a film actor and made ​​his debut in 1983 in the movie Class - From the classroom to class woman, the appearances followed in nearly twenty other films and television series. Among his best known films include Civil Procedure (1998 ) Reach the Rock (1998), The Sixth Sense ( 1999) and All Beauty Must Die (2010).

In the early 1990s he began to work himself as a playwright and wrote The Actor Retires (1992 ), his first play, which was premiered as many other of his plays at the Steppenwolf Theatre. Also, as a playwright, he was several times nominated for the Joseph Jefferson Award, and indeed for We All Went Down to Amsterdam ( 2003), The Pain and the Itch (2005) and A Parallelogram (2010).

For his first performed on 29 January 2010 play Clyborne Park 2011, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for drama.

Dramas

Filmography (selection)

• 2010: All Beauty Must Die ( All Good Things )