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Elaine May

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Elaine May

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  • "Fabulous Fifties, The" (31 January 1960), as Guest
  • (2002) Stage: Wrote "Adult Entertainment", opened off-Broadway, directed by Stanley Donen.
  • (1983) Stage: Wrote "Hot Line," performed at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, IL. NOTE: Nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award for "New Work".
  • (1960) Stage: Appeared in "Broadway Evening" on Broadway. Also in cast: Mike Nichols.
  • (1994) Stage: Appeared in Alan Ayckbourn's "Intimate Exchanges," at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, MA, with Gene Saks in the cast.
  • (3/13/57) Stage: Appeared in Aristophanes' ' "Lysistrata," in a Playwrights Theatre Club Production at the Studebaker Theatre in Chicago, IL, with Vicki Cummings (Lysistrata), Mike Nichols, Severn Darden, Barbara Harris, Andrew Duncan, and Jeffrey Sweet in the cast. Paul Sills and Bernie Sahlins were directors.
  • (1960) l Stage: Appeared in "An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May," performed at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ.
  • (4/17/73-4/28/73) Stage: Wrote "Adaptation", performed in an Actors Theatre of Louisville production at an Off-Broadway Theatre in New York City with Vaughn McBride (Games Master); Linda Selman (Female Player); G. W. Bailey (Male Player) and Toby Tompkins (Contestant) in the cast. Terrence McNally's play, "Next," was performed in an Actors Theatre of Louisville production at an Off-Broadway Theatre in New York CIty with G.W. Bailey (Marion Cheever) and Linda Selman (Sgt. Thech) in the cast.
  • (5/22-25/74)k Stage: Wrote "Adaptation," performed--with August Strindberg's play, "Motherlove"--in an Actors Theatre of Louisville production at the Summer Theatre in Louisville, KY. Jon Jory was artistic director.
  • (1970-71 season) Stage: Terrence McNally and her play, "Adaptation/Next," was performed at the Trinity Repertory Company Theatre in Providence, RI. Wayne Carson was director. Robert D. Soule was set and lighting designer. John Lehmeyer was costume designer.
  • (9/2018) Stage: Appeared (al 'Gladys") in "The Waverly Gallery" at the John Golden Theatre on Broadway. NOTES: (1) At age 87, after more than 60 years in the entertainment industry, she won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play, her first major acting award. (2) She also won the 2019 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play.
  • (1980s) Unproduced screenplay for a potential U.S. remake of German film Men... (1985).
  • (1970s or 1980s) Unproduced screenplay based on life of Howard Hughes, written for Warren Beatty.
  • (1962) Unproduced screenplay "The Loved One", based on novel by Evelyn Waugh. It remains unclear whether the movie The Loved One (1965) was at part re-using some of her work or whether it's eventual authors Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood started from the scratch.
  • (1968) Unproduced screenplay "One Hundred Million Dollar Misunderstanding", based on the novel ""One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding" by Robert Gover.
  • (1964) Stage play: The Third Ear - written and directed by.
  • (1966) Stage play: The Office by Maria Irene Fornes - actress.
  • (1963) Unproduced stage play: Name of a Soup - written by.
  • (1964) Stage play: Rumpelstiltskin - written by.
  • (1963) Unproduced TV pilot of sitcom about two elderly women running a boardinghouse for recently released convicts. (written by)
  • (1962) Stage play: Not Enough Rope - written by and actress.
  • (1962) Stage play: A Matter of Position - written and directed by and actress.
  • (early 1950s) Unproduced stage play: Mikey and Nicky - written by. Two decades later, she reworked it and filmed as Mikey and Nicky (1976).
  • (1980) Stage play: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" by Edward Albee - played Martha alongside Mike Nichols as George.
  • (1985) Unproduced screenplay "State and Main", co-written by David Mamet. The material was much later reworked by Mamet and filmed as State and Main (2000).
  • (1984) Unproduced screenplay "The False Inspector Dew" - adaptation of novel by Peter Lovesey.
  • (1977) Unproduced screenplay "Million Dollar Baby", a romantic comedy written for Marlo Thomas.
  • (2000) Stage play: "Taller Than a Dwarf" based on her older stage play "A Matter of Position" - written by.
  • (1995) Stage play: "Death-Defying Acts" - co-written by (with Woody Allen and David Mamet)
  • (1997) Stage play: "Power Plays" - co-written by with Alan Arkin and actress.
  • (1995) Unproduced screenplay: "A New Leaf" - a remake of her older film A New Leaf (1971), written for Bill Murray and Meg Ryan as the leads. Later (1997) was speculated about Steve Martin and Diane Keaton playing the leads.
  • (1993) Stage play: "Forplay" - written and directed by, actress.
  • (1971) Stage play: "The Goodbye People" by Herb Gardner - directed by.
  • (1991) Stage play: "Mr. Gogol and Mr. Preen" - written by.
  • (1996) Unproduced screenplay: "All the Pretty Horses" based on Cormac McCarthy's novel.
  • (2000) Unproduced screenplay "Kind Hearts" - a remake of Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) written for Mike Nichols as director.
  • (2005) Stage play: "After the Night and Music" - written by.
  • (2003) Unproduced screenplay "Bye Bye Blues" - a musical drama written for Stanley Donen as director.
  • (2011) Stage play: "Relatively Speaking" - co-written by Woody Allen and Ethan Coen.
  • (2004) Unproduced screenplay "Skinny Dip" based on novel by Carl Hiaasen, written for Mike Nichols as director.

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