Mart Crowley
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Mart Crowley was born in Vicksburg,
Mississippi and graduated from Catholic
University of America in 1957 in
Washington D.C. In the 1960's, he
worked in California for many
television companies. Mart Crowley is
primarily known for his landmark play,
The Boys in the Band, written in 1968,
that deals with male homosexual
lifestyles. The play was overwhelmingly
praised by critics and Crowley was
acknowledged as a master composer of
economical, pungent and bitingly-
humorous dialogue. The Boys in the
Band, his first play, was first
performed on the New York stage at
Theater Four on April 14, 1968.
Crowley's second play, Remote Asylum,
was not quite as successful. It was
produced in 1970 in Los Angeles at the
Ahmanson Theatre. Crowley's third play
opened in the fall of 1975. It was
entitled A Breeze from the Gulf and is
based on the early life of Crowley.
Fortunately, the play brought back some
of the power and energy of Crowley's
first play. It earned Crowley a second
place vote for the prestigious New York
Drama Critics Circle Award. Crowley has
not written any new plays since 1984
when he wrote Avec Schmaltz for the
Williamstown (Mass.) Theatre
Festival. . From 1979 to 1980 he
served as the executive script editor
for the ABC series "Hart to Hart" and
later as the producer. In the early
1980's Crowley returned to television
production in California. He wrote the
television movie adaptation of James
Kirkwood's There Must Be a Pony. In
1996, he performed in The Celluloid
Closet, which was nominated for an Emmy.
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