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David Rabe

David William Rabe (born March 10, 1940) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1972 (Sticks and Bones) and also received Tony Award nominations for Best Play in 1974 (In the Boom Boom Room), 1977 (Streamers) and 1985 (Hurlyburly).

David Rabe

David William Rabe
(1940-03-10) March 10, 1940
Dubuque, Iowa, U.S.

Villanova University, M.A., 1968

  • Elizabeth Pan
    (m. 1969; div.1974)
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(m. 1979; died 2010)​

3, including Lily Rabe

Early life[edit]

Rabe was born on March 10, 1940, in Dubuque, Iowa,[1] of German and Irish descent, the son of Ruth (née McCormick), a department store worker, and William Rabe, a teacher and meat packer. He was raised in a devout Catholic family.

1967 Grant

Rockefeller Foundation

1970 Award, for a series on Daytop addict rehabilitation program

Associated Press

1971 for distinguished playwriting for The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel

Obie Award

1971 for The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel

Drama Desk Award

1971 from Dramatists Guild for The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel and Streamers

Elizabeth Hull/Kate Warriner Award

1972 citation

New York Drama Critics Circle

1972 for Best Play in 1972 for Sticks and Bones

Outer Critics Circle Award

1972 for Best Play in 1972 for Sticks and Bones

Tony Award

1974 Tony Award nominee for Best Play for In the Boom Boom Room

1976

National Institute and American Academy Award in Literature

1976

Guggenheim Fellowship

1977 Tony Award nominee for Best Play for Streamers

1977 for Best American Play for Streamers

New York Drama Critics Circle Award

1985 Tony Award nominee for Best Play for Hurlyburly

2014 Master American Dramatist[3][4]

PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award

Chameleon (1959)

(1971)

The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel

(1971)

Sticks and Bones

The Orphan (1972)

(1973)

In the Boom Boom Room

Burning (1974)

The Crossing (1975)

(1976)

Streamers

Goose and Tomtom (1982)

(1984)

Hurlyburly

Those the River Keeps (1991)

A Question of Mercy: Based upon the Journal by Richard Selzer (1997)

(2001)

The Dog Problem

The Black Monk (2004)

An Early History of Fire (2012)

[5]

(2015)

Good for Otto

Visiting Edna (2016)

at the Internet Broadway Database

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at IMDb

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Hollywood.com

Answers.com

at The New York Times

Filmography

Encyclopædia Britannica

on Charlie Rose

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collected news and commentary at The New York Times

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Lahr, John (24 November 2008). . The New Yorker. Vol. 84, no. 38. pp. 114–120. Retrieved 16 April 2009. "David Rabe's America"

"The Critics: Life and Letters: Land of Lost Souls"

Radavich, David. "Collapsing Male Myths: Rabe's Tragicomic Hurlyburly." American Drama 3:1 (Fall 1993): 1–16.

Radavich, David. "Rabe, Mamet, Shepard, and Wilson: Mid-American Male Dramatists of the 1970s and '80s." The Midwest Quarterly XLVIII: 3 (Spring 2007): 342–58.