William M. Hoffman
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William M. Hoffman is the author of the
Broadway playAs Is, which
Lucille Lortel co-produced in 1985. It
earned him a Drama Desk Award, an Obie,
as well as a Tony Award® nomination for
best play, and was one of Time
magazine's best plays of the year. He
also wrote the libretto to The
Ghosts of Versailles (music by John
Corigliano), which premiered at the
Metropolitan Opera in 1991, and was
brought back in 1995. Hoffman is the
recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship,
three National Endowment Awards, ASCAP
and Fund for New American Plays awards,
two grants from the New York Foundation
for the Arts, and the Erwin Piscator
Award. In 1992 his television work
brought him an Emmy nomination and
received a Writers Guild award. He is
co-founder and co-chair of Prima le
Parole, the international librettists
organization. Hoffman is co-director
of the Department of Dramatic Writing
at Purchase College, SUNY, and has
written critically for the New York
Times, the Los Angeles
Times, the Village Voice,
and Vogue. In December of 2001 he
premiered The Cows of Apollo, or
The Invention of Music, a
masque, with composer Christopher
Theofanidis, under a commission from
the Brooklyn Philharmonic. He is
currently completing Morning
Star, with Ricky Ian Gordon, for
the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Hoffman
is also working on a new opera with
John Corigliano and a new play
Riga.
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Awards
Awards
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1985 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Play |
As Is |
Playwright |
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1985 Obie Award, Playwriting |
As Is |
Playwright |
