Phyllis Nagy

Phyllis Nagy is a theater and film director, and dramatist. She was nominated for Emmy Awards for writing and directing "Mrs. Harris" (2005), a film starring Ben Kingsley and Annette Bening (both also Emmy nominated), which garnered a total of 12 Emmy Award nominations, 3 Golden Globe nominations, 3 Screen Actors Guild Award nominations and numerous other media awards. The film premiered on HBO in February, 2006.

Nagy was born in New York City in 1962. She moved to London in 1992, where her playwriting career began in earnest at the Royal Court Theatre under the artistic direction of Stephen Daldry, for whom she served as the Royal Court's writer-in-residence in the mid-90's.

It has been said that Nagy is “The finest playwright to have emerged in the 1990s” (Financial Times).

Nagy's plays have been performed widely all over the world and include "Weldon Rising," first produced by the Royal Court Theatre in association with the Liverpool Playhouse in 1992; "Butterfly Kiss," first produced by the Almeida Theatre Company in 1994; "The Scarlet Letter," an adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel, commissioned and first produced by the Denver Centre Theatre in 1994; "Trip’s Cinch," commissioned and first produced by the Actors Theatre of Louisville in 1994 and received its UK premiere in 2002; "The Strip," commissioned and first produced by the Royal Court Theatre in 1995; and "Disappeared," a joint winner of both the 1992 Mobil International Playwriting Prize and the 1995 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. "Disappeared" was premiered at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester in 1995 in a production directed by the author which subsequently toured the UK before a London run at the Royal Court Theatre. The play went on to win the Writers Guild of Great Britain Best Regional Play award and the Eileen Anderson/Central Television Best Play award. In February 1999 "Disappeared" was presented at the Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago by RoadWorks Productions.

Nagy's most recent plays are "Never Land," premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in January 1998 in a co-production with The Foundry; and "The Talented Mr Ripley," adapted from the novel by Patricia Highsmith which premiered at the Palace Theatre Watford in October 1998. It was also produced by the Melbourne Theatre Company in February 1999. Her version of Chekov’s The Seagull was produced at Chichester Festival Theatre in the summer of 2003.

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* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0619507/ IMDB for Phyllis Nagy]