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Richard Nelson

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Richard Nelson's plays include Farewell to the Theatre, Nikolai and the Others, Sweet and Sad, That Hopey Changey Thing, Conversations in Tusculum, How Shakespeare Won the West, Frank's Home, Rodney's wife, Franny's Way, Madame Melville, Goodnight Children Everywhere, The General From America, New England, Misha's Party (with Alexander Gelman), Columbus or the Discovery of Japan, Two Shakespearean Actors, Some Americans Abroad, Left, Life Sentences, Principia Scriptoriae.

He was written the musicals Unfinished Piece for a Player Piano (with Peter Golub), James Joyce's The Dead (with Shaun Davey), My Life With Albertine (with Ricky Ian Gordon), the screenplays for the films Hyde Park-on-Hudson (Roger Michell director) and Ethan Frome (John Madden director).

He has received numerous awards both in America and abroad, including a Tony Award (Best Book of a Musical for James Joyce's The Dead), and Oliver Award (Best Play for Goodnight Children Everywhere), Tony nominations (Best Play for Two Shakespearean Actors; Best Score as co-lyricist for James Joyce's The Dead), an Olivier nomination (Best Comedy for Some Americans Abroad), two Obies, a Lortel Award, a New York Drama Critics Circle Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lila Wallace-Readers' Digest Writers Award.

He is the recipient of the PEN/Laura Pels Master Playwright Award, an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and he is an Honorary Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He lives in upstate New York.

Richard Nelson Books

Ivanov book cover

Ivanov

Anton Chekhov
Three Sisters book cover

Three Sisters

Anton Chekhov
Illyria (TCG Edition) book cover

Illyria (TCG Edition)

Richard Nelson
The Gabriels book cover

The Gabriels

Richard Nelson
Uncle Vanya book cover

Uncle Vanya

Anton Chekhov
Best Mommy Ever book cover

Best Mommy Ever

Richard Nelson
You're Perfect the Way You Are! book cover

You're Perfect the Way You Are!

Richard Nelson
The Seagull book cover

The Seagull

Anton Chekhov
Molière, or The Cabal of Hypocrites and Don Quixote book cover

Molière, or The Cabal of Hypocrites and Don Quixote

Mikhail Bulgakov
The Cherry Orchard book cover

The Cherry Orchard

Anton Chekhov
Goodnight Children Everywhere and Other Plays book cover

Goodnight Children Everywhere and Other Plays

Richard Nelson
Rodney's Wife book cover

Rodney's Wife

Richard Nelson
Frank's Home book cover

Frank's Home

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A Month in the Country book cover

A Month in the Country

Ivan Turgenev
The Apple Family book cover

The Apple Family

Richard Nelson
The Inspector book cover

The Inspector

Richard Nelson
Conversations in Tusculum book cover

Conversations in Tusculum

Richard Nelson
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