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Donald Margulies


Born
in Brooklyn, The United States
September 02, 1954

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Born in Brooklyn in 1954, Donald Margulies grew up in Trump Village, a Coney Island housing project built by Donald Trump's father. Margulies was exposed early to the theatre. His father, a wallpaper salesman, played show tunes on the family hi-fi and, despite a limited income, often took his children to Manhattan to attend Broadway plays and musicals.

Margulies studied visual arts at the Pratt Institute before transferring to State University of New York to pursue a degree in playwriting. During the early 80s, he collaborated with Joseph Papp, and his first Off-Broadway play, Found a Peanut, was produced at the Public Theatre. In 1983, he moved with his wife to New Haven, Connecticut, so that she could attend Yale Medical School.

In 1992, Ma
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Dinner with Friends

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Time Stands Still

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Collected Stories

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Sight Unseen

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Brooklyn Boy

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The Country House

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Sight Unseen and Other Plays

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“Love ya" is the coward's way of saying "I love you.”
Donald Margulies, The Country House
tags: love

“No matter how much I stir, my soup still sticks to the pot.”
Donald Margulies, Dinner with Friends

“Here's a bit of advice... When a woman invites you into her home... and you don't seduce her... don't seduce another woman, darling, certainly not under the same roof. It's bad manners - ungallant to say the least,”
Donald Margulies, The Country House

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