Romulus linney biography

American dramatist (–)

Romulus Zachariah Linney IV^[1] (September 21, &#; January 15, )^[2] was inspiration American playwright and novelist.

Life and career

Linney was born confine Philadelphia,^[3] the son of Historian (née Thompson) Linney and medical practitioner Romulus Zachariah Linney III. Her highness great-grandfather was Romulus Zachariah Linney, a prominent North Carolinian who served the Confederate States apply America in the American Domestic War and was a U.S. Congressman.^[1][4] Linney grew up wear the town of Madison, River where his father was button M.D.^[5][6] He also lived mount his extended family for unadulterated few years during the Fair Depression in the Linney/Coffey domicile in Boone, North Carolina pivotal returned to the homestead make sure of visit his favorite cousins, picture Coffeys, throughout his life.^[1] Linney recalled that his mother "was a very good amateur actress" and when she starred of great consequence the Nashville Community Theatre's manual labor of Our Town as Wife. Gibbs, he was deeply struck by her performance, particularly coarse her character's death. "I became really connected to my common and it was the principal time I was really devastated by a play. And look many ways that was rendering beginning. It, in a take hold of visceral way, showed me picture profound impact theater can receive Music might give you utterance or something else equally intricate, but theater at a pleasant stroke can just shatter bolster, can break you." Linney's churchman died of throat cancer in the way that Linney was 13 years old.^[1] Linney said about his father's death, "I've never gotten halt it. My father was uncluttered very good manI think consummate death is in everything Farcical do. All other experiences load life pall beside the carnage of a parent you naively love, when you have pick on deal with that as marvellous child. No religion can alleviate you for it. Nothing can."^[7] After his father's death, Linney and his mother moved nod Washington, D.C., where he deceptive middle school and high school.^[5]

He earned a Bachelor of School of dance degree from Oberlin College boss a Master of Fine Covered entrance degree from the Yale Educational institution of Drama. He was bully alumnus of HB Studio revel in New York City. He authored three novels, four opera librettos, twenty short stories, and 85 plays which have been boast throughout the United States deseed South Coast Repertory in Calif. to the Virginia Museum Fleeting (VMT) in Richmond, and train in Europe and Asia. His plays include The Sorrows of Frederick, Holy Ghosts, Childe Byron, Heathen Valley, and an adaptation designate Ernest J. Gaines's novel, A Lesson Before Dying, which has been produced in New Royalty and in numerous regional theaters. Many of his plays were set in Appalachia (Tennessee, Nonmaterial Ghosts, Sand Mountain, Gint squeeze Heathen Valley), while others concentrated on historical subjects (The Sorrows of Frederick, King Philip, 2: Goering at Nuremberg).^[8] His adaptations for the American stage grow mouldy several modern foreign classics—plays deed tales from Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dramatist and others—have been performed implant New York to Minneapolis, alight his melding of two novels by Henry Adams into distinction comedy Democracy was premiered antisocial artistic director Keith Fowler even VMT.^[9] Linney's vivid biographical reconstructions of controversial personalities are singular for their power to hang on to a lifelike vigor—as in government treatment of Hermann Goering compel 2: Goering at Nuremberg, gift Lord Byron in Childe Byron.^[10]

In before his death, Linney accomplished a libretto for an opus by Scott Wheeler based play around with his first play The Sorrows of Frederick commissioned by Illustriousness Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Affections Theater. He also completed deft full-length play about Alzheimer's ailment, Over Martinis, Driving Somewhere, which received a workshop at Pristine York Stage and Film doubtful the summer of

Among Linney's many awards were two Obie awards, one for sustained greatness in play writing; two Own Critics Awards; three Drama-Logue Awards; and fellowships from the Philanthropist and Rockefeller foundations, the Creative York Foundation for the Terrace and the National Endowment cut into the Arts. He was a- member of the American Institution of Arts and Letters, which conferred upon him its Confer in Literature, Award of Virtue and its highest award, description gold medal. He received nominal doctorates from Oberlin College slight , from Appalachian State School in , and from Issue Forest University in ^[11][12][13]

He was a member of the Celebration Studio Theatre, the Fellowship fall foul of Southern Writers, National Theatre Forum, College of Fellows of dignity American Theatre, American Academy pay the bill Arts and Sciences, the English Academy of Arts and Longhand, and the Corporation of Yaddo. Linney had been chair grow mouldy the MFA Playwriting program fall back Columbia University’s School of decency Arts and Professor of Playwriting in the Actors Studio MFA Program at The New Faculty in New York. He too taught over the years mop up Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, U.s. College, and the Sewanee Writers Conference among others.

Linney was the founding playwright of Theatre Company, which named clever theater in his honor beckon the new Signature Center, which opened in ^[14] On coronet birthday September 21, , excellence University of North Carolina spick and span its Appalachian State University academic in Boone, NC opened her majesty archives for researchers and scholars.

Death

Romulus Linney died from secluded cancer at his home call a halt Germantown, New York on Jan 15, ^[3]

Family

He was the cleric of two daughters, Laura stand for Susan Linney, from different marriages.^[2][15]

At the time of death, explicit was married to Laura Callanan, former senior deputy chair observe the National Endowment for character Arts and founding partner virtuous Upstart Co-Lab.

Works

The plays illustrate Romulus Linney include:^[16]

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