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26-516: Kenneth Lonergan (born October 16, 1962) is an American film director, playwright, and screenwriter. He is known for his works which explore complex emotional and interpersonal dynamics. He has received several awards including an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award as well as nominations for three Golden Globe Awards , a Pulitzer Prize , a Laurence Olivier Award , and three Tony Awards . Lonergan wrote his first one act play entitled, The Rennings Children (1982). He then earned acclaim for writing

52-584: A Play . During this time Lonergan took small supporting roles in projects such as Noah Baumbach 's absurdist comedy-drama White Noise (2022) and the Netflix thriller miniseries Ripley (2024). Lonergan's play Hold On to Me Darling will have a 2024 off-Broadway revival starring Adam Driver at the Lucille Lortel Theatre . Justin Chang of Variety noted that Lonergan is "always

78-498: A Play . Cera and Tyree Henry were also nominated for their performances. Later that year, In September 2018 a third show of his, The Waverly Gallery , was revived on Broadway starring Elaine May , Lucas Hedges , Joan Allen , David Cromer , and Michael Cera at the John Golden Theatre . Greg Evans of Deadline Hollywood praised the production but highlighted May writing, "this production will be remembered for

104-563: A gangster and his therapist, respectively. Lonergan directed his own screenplay for You Can Count on Me (2000) which was executive produced by Martin Scorsese . The film starred Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo , and film earned Lonergan a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay . He was subsequently offered a job writing the live-action comedy The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000). In 2001 he wrote

130-541: A second play of his, Lobby Hero was revived on Broadway, this time starring Chris Evans , Michael Cera , Brian Tyree Henry , and Bel Powley at the Helen Hayes Theatre . Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly wrote, "Lobby is still a smart, thoughtful piece of work, fairy-dusted by the starry presence of its celebrated cast". The play received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Revival of

156-653: A showing of his work. The landlord wants to close the art gallery and replace it with a restaurant. How her family – daughter Ellen, son-in-law Howard and grandson Daniel – deals with her decline is told by the grandson. (The minor character of the landlord, onstage at the Williamstown production, was dropped for the Off-Broadway 2000 production. He was included in a later production at the Pasadena Playhouse in 2002. ) The play opened Off-Broadway at

182-577: A speechwriter for the Environmental Protection Agency . He also wrote industrial shows (long-play commercials) for clients such as Weight Watchers . Lonergan's first theatrical success came with the play This Is Our Youth (1996) which opened off-Broadway Intar Theatre by The New Group . The play revolved around three young adults navigating friendship, identity, and disillusionment in 1980s New York City . The cast included Mark Ruffalo , Josh Hamilton , and Missy Yager and

208-479: A string of off-Broadway plays such as This is Our Youth (1996), The Waverly Gallery (2000), and Lobby Hero (2001) which were later revived on Broadway earning him nominations for three Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play in 2015 , 2019 , and 2018 , respectively. For his work on The Waverly Gallery , he was selected as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama . He directed and wrote

234-744: A superb director of actresses," particularly in Manchester by the Sea where the director "gives the women in his ensemble their due." Lonergan is married to actress J. Smith-Cameron . They have one daughter, Nellie. In January 2020, Lonergan was appointed Visiting Fellow and Artist in Residence at Kellogg College of the University of Oxford . Lonergan's stepfather was Freudian psychoanalyst Michael S. Porder . List of awards and nominations received by Kenneth Lonergan Kenneth Lonergan

260-430: Is an American playwright, director, and screenwriter. Over his career he has received several awards including an Academy Award and BAFTA Award as well as nominations for three Golden Globe Awards , a Laurence Olivier Award and three Tony Awards . He has received four Academy Award nominations three for Best Original Screenplay for You Can Count on Me (2000), Gangs of New York (2002), and Manchester by

286-456: The E.M. Forster novel Howards End into a 2017 miniseries of the same name for BBC / Starz starring Hayley Atwell and Matthew Macfadyen . When addressing the challenges of adapting the novel to screen he told The Times of London , “You don’t want to be apologizing for a book that was written in 1910, nor do you want to be writing material whose main purpose is to tell the audience that you don’t agree with these views". In March 2018,

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312-625: The E.M. Forster novel Howards End into the 2017 miniseries of the same name . Lonergan was born in The Bronx , New York City to a psychiatrist mother and physician father. His mother is Jewish , and his father was of Irish descent. Lonergan began writing in high school at the Walden School , a now defunct, highly progressive private school in Manhattan with a strong drama program. His first play, The Rennings Children ,

338-669: The John Golden Theatre on September 25, 2018 in previews, officially on October 25. The cast included Elaine May , Lucas Hedges , Joan Allen , Michael Cera , and David Cromer . The revival was directed by Lila Neugebauer . The play closed on January 27, 2019 after 109 performances. Charles Isherwood in Variety said, "The life trauma being depicted has an inherent pathos, and in Lonergan's hands, no small amount of comic potential. And yet, while Lonergan mines his subject with delicacy and wit, he runs out of dramatic ore well before

364-594: The Promenade Theater in March 2000 directed by Scott Ellis . Charles Isherwood of Variety declared, "Anyone who has lived through this sad process with a relative will be awed by the verisimilitude of both Heckart's acting and Lonergan's writing." For his work he was named as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama . Lonergan's film career began with his screenplay for the crime comedy Analyze This (1999) starring Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal as

390-505: The Promenade Theater on March 22, 2000 and closed on May 21, 2000. Directed by Scott Ellis , the play starred Eileen Heckart as Gladys Green and Josh Hamilton as Daniel. The play originally premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival , running from August 11, 1999 to August 22, 1999. Joanne Woodward filled in for an ailing Eileen Heckart in the final four performances. The play premiered on Broadway at

416-473: The Sea (2016) winning for the later. He has also received three Tony Award nominations for Best Revival for a Play for This is Our Youth in 2015, Lobby Hero in 2018, and The Waverly Gallery in 2019. The Waverly Gallery Gladys Green owns a small art gallery in Greenwich Village . She is in her 80s and showing signs of Alzheimer's disease . Don, a young artist, arrives for

442-403: The drama film Manchester by the Sea (2016) starring Casey Affleck , Lucas Hedges , and Michelle Williams , which was released to critical acclaim. He also had a small part in the film, as a pedestrian. David Fear of Rolling Stone said the film proves that Lonergan is "practically peerless in portraying loss as a living, breathing thing without resorting to the vocabulary of griefporn." He

468-456: The drama film Manchester by the Sea (2016) which won him the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director . He was previously Oscar-nominated as a writer for his first film You Can Count on Me (2000) and as a co-writer for Martin Scorsese 's historical epic film Gangs of New York (2002). He also wrote and directed the psychological drama film Margaret (2011), and adapted

494-610: The evening's end." Ben Brantley in The New York Times called the play a "finely observed story of the predations of old age...[it] isn't so much a proper play as an essayistic memoir given dramatic form. It is nonetheless deeply theatrical. Mr. Lonergan ... has one of the keenest ears of any working playwright.... is also often deeply funny." The Waverly Gallery was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001. Awards and Nominations: 2019 Drama Desk Awards 2019 Tony Awards On June 9, 2019, May won

520-594: The play Lobby Hero which premiered off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons starring Glenn Fitzgerald , Heather Burns , and Tate Donovan . The following year Lonergan contributed to the screenplay for Martin Scorsese 's historical epic Gangs of New York (2002) for which he earned his second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay . In 2005, filming took place for his second film as writer/director, Margaret , starring Anna Paquin , Matt Damon , Matthew Broderick, and J. Smith-Cameron. The film spent over five years in post-production, with Lonergan,

546-405: The producers and various editors unable to agree on its final cut, resulting in multiple legal disputes. It was finally released in 2011. Margaret ranked 31st in a 2016 BBC poll of the 21st century's greatest films. His play The Starry Messenger premiered Off-Broadway in 2009 and starred his wife J. Smith-Cameron , Matthew Broderick , and Kieran Culkin . In August 2014, This Is Our Youth

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572-422: The stunning Elaine May. She’s so good here that there are moments you’ll swear she isn’t acting. Did she really forget that line? It feels a privilege to watch this legend transform Lonergan’s meditation on dignity, regret and ungraspable memory into something indelible and lasting." The production received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play . Elaine May won the Tony Award for Best Actress in

598-637: Was chosen for the Stephen Sondheim -founded Young Playwrights, Inc. Young Playwright's Festival in 1982 while he was still an undergraduate. Lonergan matriculated to Wesleyan University , where he trained as a playwright and director. He graduated from the NYU Playwriting Program. He is an alumnus of HB Studio in New York City. Lonergan is a founding member of Naked Angels . After graduating from NYU , Lonergan worked as

624-592: Was directed by Mark Brokaw . Greg Evans of Variety wrote, "What we have is two hours of conversation among the three characters, and as finely written as the dialogue is" adding, "Lonergan’s ear is unfailing". It was followed by what is considered Lonergan's breakthrough play, The Waverly Gallery (2000), based on his grandmother's Greenwich Village gallery. The play revolves around a family reacting to an elderly woman in early stages of dementia . The original cast included Eileen Heckart , Josh Hamilton , Maureen Anderman , and Mark Blum . It opened Off-Broadway at

650-605: Was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film. He also won the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay for Manchester by the Sea at the 70th British Academy Film Awards . That same year he wrote the play Hold On to Me Darling (2016) which starred Timothy Olyphant as a country music star and ran at the Atlantic Theatre Company 's Linda Gross Theatre . Lonergan adapted

676-613: Was revived on Broadway starring Michael Cera , Kieran Culkin , and Tavi Gevinson at the Cort Theatre . The play would be the first of Lonergan's work to make it to Broadway. He received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play . Alexis Soloski of The Guardian wrote, "Though still hewing to drama school rules – small cast, single set, neat inciting incident – it has a mature, post-grad voice, sensitive and humane and jammed full of totally splendid crackerjack-with-a-toy-surprise dialogue". Lonergan wrote and directed

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