Mart Crowley

Mart Crowley
Born	August 21, 1935 (1935-08-21) (age 76) Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S.
Occupation	Playwright, writer
Nationality	American
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Genre	Drama, Comedy
Notable work(s)	The Boys In The Band

Mart Crowley (born August 21, 1935) is an American playwright.^[1]

Crowley was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. After graduating from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. in 1957, Crowley headed west to Hollywood, where he worked for a number of television production companies before meeting Natalie Wood on the set of her film Inside Daisy Clover. Wood hired him as her assistant, primarily to give him ample free time to work on his gay-themed play The Boys in the Band, which opened off-Broadway to ecstatic reviews on April 14, 1968 and enjoyed a run of 1001 performances. Crowley became part of Wood's inner circle of friends that she called "the nucleus", whose main requirement was that they pass a "kindness" test.

Crowley's sequel to The Boys in the Band was entitled The Men From The Boys.

Crowley's second work, Remote Asylum, was mounted with great expectations at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles in 1970, but it failed to garner the raves his debut had. In that same year, he enjoyed greater success with the motion picture adaptation of The Boys in the Band. With his next play, the autobiographical A Breeze from the Gulf, he regained cachet with the critics and earned a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award nomination for Best Play. The Men From the Boys, his sequel to The Boys in the Band was produced by the New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco in 2002, and by the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles in 2003.

In 1979 and 1980, Crowley served first as the executive script editor and then producer of the ABC series Hart to Hart, starring Wood's husband Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers. Other credits include the teleplays for There Must Be a Pony (1986), Bluegrass (1988), People Like Us (1990), and a Hart to Hart reunion special in 1996.

Crowley has appeared in at least two documentaries: The Celluloid Closet (1995), about homosexuality and its depiction on screen throughout the years, and Dominick Dunne: After the Party (2007), a biography of Crowley's friend and producer, Dominick Dunne.

References

1. ^ New York Daily News

Sources

• The Mississippi Writers and Musicians Project of Starkville High School
• Mart Crowley at the Internet Movie Database
• Mart Crowley at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

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Name	Crowley, Mart
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Date of birth	August 21, 1935
Place of birth	Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S.
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