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He has received two [[Giles Cooper Awards]] - in 1987 for ''[[Languages Spoken Here]]'' and in 1989 for ''[[Eating Words]]''. |
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Revision as of 16:13, 17 February 2013
Richard Nelson (born October 17, 1950) is an American playwright who has written several award-winning radio plays. He is perhaps most notable for writing the books for the Broadway musicals The Dead and Chess.
Biography
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Nelson went to college in New York State. He lived in England for a year, returning to the U.S. in 1973. Since his first professional theatre play in 1975, he has written many acclaimed plays.
Theatre Work
Work in Radio
Nelson's first foray into radio drama came upon his return to the United States in 1973, when he wrote a series of radio plays inspired by current events, particularly the Watergate Scandal. They were broadcast on WUHY-FM[1].
He has received two Giles Cooper Awards - in 1987 for Languages Spoken Here and in 1989 for Eating Words.
Nelson's most recent radio play was Hyde Park-on-Hudson. Conceived as a film project, Nelson's choice of director proved unavailable at the time, so it was reworked as a radio play, produced in 2009. The film followed in 2012[2].
Radio Plays
- The Fall of Agnew
- Hank Aaron's 715th
- The Unrequited Lovers' Manual
- Watergate: An Audio Memory
- Languages Spoken Here (1987)
- Eating Words (1989)
- Roots in Water (1989)
- Principia Scriptoriae (1990)
- Advice to Eastern Europe (1990)
- The American Wife (1994)
- Some Americans Abroad (1995)
- Hyde Park-on-Hudson (2009)