Paul Rudnick

Personal Information

Paul Rudnick's plays have been produced both on and off Broadway and around the world. They include Valhalla, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, The Naked Eye, Mr. Charles, Currently Of Palm Beach, I Hate Hamlet and Jeffrey, for which he won an OBIE, an Outer Critics Circle Award and the John Gassner Playwrighting Award. His novels are Social Disease and I'll Take It, both published by Knopf. His articles and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Vogue, Vanity Fair and The New York Times. He is rumored to be quite close to Premiere magazine's film critic, Libby Gelman-Waxner, whose collected columns have been published under the title If You Ask Me. His screenplays include Addams Family Values, the screen adaptation of Jeffrey and In & Out.

Credits

Author

	Production	Theatre	Opened	Credit
1	Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays	Minetta Lane Theatre	11/13/2011	Author
2	The New Century	Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater	04/14/2008	Playwright
3	Regrets Only	New York City Center/ Stage I	11/19/2006	Playwright
4	Valhalla	New York Theatre Workshop	02/05/2004	Playwright
5	Rude Entertainment	Greenwich House	09/20/2001	Playwright
6	The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told	New York Theatre Workshop	12/01/1998	Playwright
7	The Naked Truth	WPA Theatre	05/26/1994	Playwright
8	Jeffrey	WPA Theatre	01/20/1993	Playwright
9	Poor Little Lambs	Parish Hall at the Church of Heavenly Rest	03/14/1982	Playwright

Awards

		Award	Production	Function
1	NOMINATED	2004 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Play	Valhalla	Playwright
2	WON	1993 Obie Award, Playwriting	Jeffrey	Playwright
3	WON	1993 Outer Critics Circle Award, John Gassner Award	Jeffrey	Playwright
4	WON	1982 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Book of a Musical	Poor Little Lambs	Playwright