Terrence McNally

Personal Information


Terrence McNally has won four Tony Awards: 1998 for the musical Ragtime; 1996 for Master Class, in which Zoe Caldwell created the role of Maria Callas; 1995 for Love! Valour! Compassion! (Also Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and NY Drama Critic’s Circle Awards); and 1993 for the musical Kiss of the Spider Woman. Other plays include The Full Monty; Corpus Christi; A Perfect Ganesh; Lips Together, Teeth Apart (Lucille Award for Outstanding Play); The Lisbon Traviatta; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; and It’s Only A Play, all of which began at MTC. Earlier stage works include Bad Habits, The Ritz, Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone?, And Things That Go Bump In the Night, Next, and the book for the musical The Rink. Opera: NYC Opera’s Central Park Opera Trilogy (libretto for The Food of Love, with music by Robert Beaser), San Francisco Opera’s premiere of Dead Man Walking (libretto with music by Jake Heggie). McNally has written a number of TV scripts, including "Andre’s Mother’ (Emmy Award). He received two Guggenheim Fellowships, A Rockefeller Grant, a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He has been a member of the Dramatists Guild since 1970.

External Links:	Primary Stages Oral History Project
Playwrights' Sidewalk:	Terrence McNally has a star on the Playwrights' Sidewalk.

Credits

Author

	Production	Theatre	Opened	Credit
1	A Man of No Importance	East 13th Street/CSC Theatre	10/30/2022	Book
2	Fire and Air	East 13th Street/CSC Theatre	02/01/2018	Playwright
3	Lips Together, Teeth Apart	Second Stage Theatre	10/29/2014	Playwright
4	And Away We Go	Pearl Theatre	11/24/2013	Playwright
5	Golden Age	New York City Center/ Stage I	12/04/2012	Playwright
6	Some Men	Second Stage Theatre	03/26/2007	Playwright
7	Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams	59E59 Theaters/ Theater A	08/18/2005	Playwright
8	The Stendhal Syndrome	59E59 Theaters/ Theater A	02/16/2004	Playwright
9	A Man of No Importance	Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater	10/10/2002	Book
10	Corpus Christi	New York City Center/ Stage I	10/13/1998	Playwright
11	By the Sea, By the Sea, By the Beautiful Sea	New York City Center/ Stage II	04/30/1996	Playwright
12	Love! Valour! Compassion!	New York City Center/ Stage I	10/11/1994	Playwright
13	A Perfect Ganesh	New York City Center/ Stage I	06/04/1993	Playwright
14	Lips Together, Teeth Apart	New York City Center/ Stage I	05/28/1991	Playwright
15	Bad Habits	New York City Center/ Stage I	02/27/1990	Playwright
16	The Lisbon Traviata	Promenade Theatre	10/31/1989	Playwright
17	The Lisbon Traviata	New York City Center/ Stage I	05/23/1989	Playwright
18	Urban Blight	New York City Center/ Stage I	05/18/1988	Book
19	Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune	New World Stages/ Stage II	06/02/1987	Playwright
20	It's Only a Play	New York City Center/ Stage I	01/12/1986	Playwright
21	Bad Habits	Astor Place Theatre	02/04/1974	Playwright
22	Whiskey	Theater at St. Clement's Church	04/29/1973	Playwright
23	Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone?	Eastside Playhouse	10/07/1971	Playwright
24	Adaptation / Next	Greenwich Mews Theatre	02/10/1969	Playwright
25	Sweet Eros / Witness	Gramercy Arts Theatre	11/21/1968	Playwright
26	Collision Course	Actors' Playhouse	06/04/1968	Author

Awards

		Award	Production	Function
1	NOMINATED	2023 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Revival	A Man of No Importance	Book
2	NOMINATED	2023 Drama League Award, Outstanding Revival of a Musical	A Man of No Importance	Book
3	WON	2015 Lucille Lortel Award, Lifetime Achievement Award
4	NOMINATED	2007 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Play	Some Men	Playwright
5	NOMINATED	2003 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Book of a Musical	A Man of No Importance	Book
6	WON	1995 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Play	Love! Valour! Compassion!	Playwright
7	WON	1995 Obie Award, Playwriting	Love! Valour! Compassion!	Playwright
8	WON	1992 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Play	Lips Together, Teeth Apart	Playwright
9	WON	1992 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Body of Work
10	WON	1974 Obie Award, Distinguished Play	Bad Habits	Playwright