Douglas Carter Beane

Douglas Carter Beane is an American playwright and screenwriter. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Beane now lives in New York. ^[1]

His works include the screenplay of To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, and several plays including The Country Club and The Little Dog Laughed, which was nominated for the 2007 Tony Award for Best Play and As Bees in Honey Drown, which ran at New York's Lucille Lortel Theatre in 1997. Beane often writes works with sophisticated, "drawing room" humor.

Beane wrote the book for Xanadu, a stage musical adaptation of the 1980 film of the same name, adding new plot twists and humor parodying the original movie. The musical was workshopped in 2006 and early 2007 with director Christopher Ashley and actors Jane Krakowski, Tony Roberts, and Cheyenne Jackson. The musical opened on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre on July 10, 2007, with a budget of $5 million.^[2] Kerry Butler and Cheyenne Jackson were the Broadway leads. Beane won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical.

Beane is also the artistic director of the Drama Dept. Theater Company in New York.

References

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ Riedel, Michael "'Xanadu' to B'Way?", New York Post, January 24, 2007. Retrieved on January 29, 2007.

External links

• Douglas Carter Beane at the Internet Movie Database
• Douglas Carter Beane at the Internet Broadway Database
• The Little Dog Laughed official website
• Douglas Carter Beane interviewed in The Playwright Working in the Theatre CUNY-TV/American Theatre Wing, December 2006
• [2] BroadwayWorld.com interview with Douglas Carter Beane, June 5, 2007

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