Richard Greenberg

Quick Facts

Full Name	Richard Greenberg
Occupation	Playwright
Date Of Birth	Feb 22, 1958(1958-02-22)
Age	66
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Aquarius

Richard Greenberg Biography

Richard Greenberg is one of the most popular and richest Playwright who was born on February 22, 1958 in New York, United States. He is a playwright and author of Take Me Out, the Tony Award-winning play in 2003. He was a finalist in the Pulitzer Prize for 1998 and 2003.

His Broadway play Dance of Death was starring Oscar-nominated actor David Stahairn.

Greenberg grew up in East Meadow, New York, a middle-class Long Island town in Nassau County, east of New York City. His father, Leon Greenberg, was an executive for New York’s Century Theaters movie chain and his mother Shirley was a homemaker. Greenberg graduated from East Meadow High School in 1976 and later went on to attend Princeton University, where he graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. in English. As part of his degree, Greenberg completed a 438-page long senior thesis titled “A Romantic Career – A Novel.” At Princeton, Greenberg studied creative writing under Joyce Carol Oates and roomed with future Harvard economics professor Greg Mankiw. He later attended Harvard for graduate work in English and American Literature, but later dropped out of the program when he was accepted to the Yale School of Drama’s playwriting program in 1985.

He received the George Oppenheimer Award, presented by Newsday in 1985 for The Bloodletters, produced Off-Off Broadway while he was at Yale. He is the first winner of the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award for a playwright in mid-career in 1998.

Leon’s father Leon was an executive at New York’s Century Theaters.

Richard Greenberg Net Worth

Richard Greenberg is one of the richest Playwright from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Richard Greenberg 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Princeton University, he graduated magna cum felicite and enrolled in Yale’s playwriting program.

He was the first to win the PEN/Laura Pels Award as a playwright during the middle of his career.

Richard Greenberg (born February 22, 1958) is an American playwright and television writer known for his subversively humorous depictions of middle- class American life. He has had more than 25 plays premiere on and off- broadway in New York City and eight at the South Coast Repertory Theatre (Costa Mesa, California), including The Violet Hour, Everett Beekin, and Hurrah at Last.

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His play The Babylon Line premiered Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater on November 10, 2016 in previews, officially on December 5. Directed by Terry Kinney, the cast features Josh Radnor as a writing teacher and Elizabeth Reaser as his student. The play was first performed at New York Stage and Film & Vassar College’s Powerhouse Theater in June to July 2014, starring Josh Radnor.

Facts & Trivia

Richard Ranked on the list of most popular Playwright. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Richard Greenberg celebrates birthday on February 22 of every year.

What is three days of rain about?

Synopsis. Opened February 21, 1999 A famous architect has died and left a mysterious will, prompting his children and their best friend to wonder about their families’ history. Darkly funny, Richard Greenberg’s Three Days of Rain trips through time, playing children’s perceptions against their parents’s reality.

Who wrote Take Me Out play?

Richard Greenberg

Who wrote three days of rain?

Three Days Rain
Written by| Richard Greenberg
Characters| 2 male, 1 female
Date premiered| 1997
Place premiered| South Coast Repertory Costa Mesa, California

Is Take me out based on a true story?

Take Me Out premiered in London in 2002. Greenberg was inspired by the stories of baseball players who came out only to teammates during their career, or to the public after retirement , but noted that no Major League Baseball player had ever come out to the public while actively playing.

What is the plot of Take Me Out?

Take Me Out, Richard Greenberg’s 2002 Broadway hit, explores with wit and compassion what might happen if a player on a major league baseball team were to announce that he is gay. Greenberg brings out many attitudes toward homosexuality by drawing his main character as a very specific, unique individual.