John Patrick Shanley Biography (1950-)

Born October 3, 1950, in New York, NY; father, a meat-packer; mother, a telephone operator; married Jayne Haynes (an actress; divorced). Addresses:Agent: Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212-4545.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Playwright, screenwriter, producer, director
Birth Details: October 3, 1950; New York, New York, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Work
Associate producer, Five Corners, Cineplex Odeon, 1988
Director, I Am Angry (short film), c. 1988
Director, Joe versus the Volcano (also known as Joe against theVolcano), Warner Bros., 1990
Film Appearances
Celebrity party guest, Crossing Delancey, Warner Bros., 1988
Television Appearances
Episodic
The New Hollywood (talk show), NBC, 1990
Specials
Himself, Intimate Portrait: Park Overall, Lifetime, 2000
Stage Director
Psychopathia Sexualis, Manhattan Theater Club Stage I, New York City, 1997
Cellini, Second Stage, New York City, 2001
Where's My Money?, LABrynth Theater, Center Stage, New York City,2001
WRITINGS
Screenplays
Moonstruck, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1987
Five Corners, Cineplex Odeon, 1988
The January Man, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1989

Joe versus the Volcano (also known as Joe against the Volcano), Warner Bros., 1990
Alive (also known as Alive: The Miracle of the Andes), Buena Vista, 1993
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (animated), MCA/Universal, 1993
Congo, Paramount, 1995
Television Movies
Live from Baghdad, HBO, 2002
Plays
Ketchup (staged reading), produced at New Dramatists, New York City, c. 1980
Rockaway, produced at Vineyard Theater, New York City, 1982
Welcome to the Moon, produced at Ensemble Studio Theatre, New YorkCity, 1982
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, produced at Circle in the Square, NewYork City, 1984
Savage in Limbo, produced at 47th Street Theater, New York City, 1985
the dreamer examines his pillow (staged reading), produced at O'Neill Playwrights Conference, New Haven, CT, 1985, then at Double Image Theater, New York City, 1986
Women of Manhattan, produced at Manhattan Theatre Club, City Center Theater, New York City, 1986
"All for Charity," in Marathon '87: Evening B, produced at Ensemble Studio Theatre, 1987
Italian-American Reconciliation, produced in New York City, 1988
Beggars in the House of Plenty, produced at Manhattan Theater ClubStage I, New York City, 1991
What Is This Everything?, produced in New York City, 1992
Four Dogs and a Bone, produced at Manhattan Theatre Club, 1993
Psychopathia Sexualis, produced at Seattle Rep, then Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, later Manhattan Theater Club Stage I, New York City, 1997
Cellini, produced at Second Stage, New York City, 2001
Where's My Money?, produced at Center Stage, New York City, 2001
Published Plays
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea: An Apache Dance, Dramatists Play Service, 1984
"Welcome to the Moon," in Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays, Dramatists Play Service, 1985
Savage in Limbo, Dramatists Play Service, 1986
the dreamer examines his pillow: A Heterosexual Homily, DramatistsPlay Service, 1987
Collected Plays, 1992
Television Writings
Author of television scripts.

Further Reference

ADAPTATIONS

Danny and the Deep Blue Sea was adapted into the film Papillonsde nuit, 2002.

OTHER SOURCES

Books

Contemporary Dramatists, St. James Press, 1999

Periodicals

American Film, September, 1989
Chicago Tribune, March 9, 1990
Los Angeles Times, February 5, 1986; March 5, 1988; February 9, 1989; March 9, 1990
Maclean's, April 4, 1988
National Review, March 4, 1988
Newsweek, December 21, 1987
New York, October 20, 1986; November 14, 1988
New Yorker, January 25, 1988
New York Times, October 14, 1982; November 24, 1982; September 26,1985; May 5, 1986; December 16, 1987; December 27, 1987; April 10, 1988; January 13, 1989
People, January 18, 1988
Time, November 7, 1988; January 23, 1989
Village Voice, January 5, 1988; February 2, 1988

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