Qui va sortir amb Edward Albee?

Edward Franklin Albee (Washington DC, 12 de març de 1928 - 16 de setembre de 2016) fou un dramaturg estatunidenc. Dues de les seves primeres obres: The Zoo Story ("La història del Zoo"), Qui té por de Virginia Woof? van arribar a tenir un gran ressò internacional i encara avui no paren de representar-se.

La seva escriptura es considera sovint com un examen indiferent de la condició humana moderna. Els seus primers treballs reflecteixen un domini del Teatre de l'absurd, corrent que va trobar el seu punt culminant amb dramaturgs europeus com Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett o Eugène Ionesco. Més endavant va desenvolupar una teatralitat audaciosa amb diàlegs incisius que van ajudar a reinventar el teatre americà de la postguerra fins als primers anys 1960. La voluntat d'Albee en fer evolucionar la seva via, tal com es posa de manifest en produccions més tardanes, l'ha seguit diferenciant dels altres dramaturgs americans de la seva generació. El 2005 va rebre el Premi Tony Especial.

Entre altres guardons ha rebut tres cops el Premi Pulitzer de Teatre: 1967 per A Delicate Balance, 1975 per Seascape i 1994 per Three Tall Women.

Darrerament, l'actor i director català Josep Maria Pou ha dut a l'escena una de les seves últimes creacions (2002) La cabra o qui és Sylvia?

Terrence McNally (November 3, 1938 – March 24, 2020) was an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. Described as "the bard of American theater" and "one of the greatest contemporary playwrights the theater world has yet produced," McNally was the recipient of five Tony Awards. He won the Tony Award for Best Play for Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class and the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime, and received the 2019 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1996, and he also received the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 and the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2018, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the highest recognition of artistic merit in the United States. His other accolades included an Emmy Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, four Drama Desk Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, two Obie Awards, and three Hull-Warriner Awards.

His career spanned six decades, and his plays, musicals, and operas were routinely performed all over the world. He also wrote screenplays, teleplays, and a memoir. Active in the regional and off-Broadway theatre movements as well as on Broadway, he was one of the few playwrights of his generation to have successfully passed from the avant-garde to mainstream acclaim. His work centered on the difficulties of and urgent need for human connection. He was vice-president of the Council of the Dramatists Guild from 1981 to 2001.

He died of complications from COVID-19 on March 24, 2020, at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Florida.