THE SANDBOX BY EDWARD ALBEE SPARKNOTES MOVIE
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? received two Tony Awards and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award in 1963 play ran for nearly two years in New York was made into a successful movie with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as Martha and George.
Won three Pulitzer Prizes for A Delicate Balance, Seascape, and Three Tall Women the two drama advisors on the Pulitzer Committee resigned their posts after their recommendation to award the prize to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was ignored.Lectured at colleges like Brandeis, Johns Hopkins, and Webster instructor/artist in residence at University of Houston.Cultural exchange visitor to USSR and Latin America for the U.S.Founder of the William Flanagan Center for Creative Persons in Montauk, New York.Co-director of Vivian Beaumont Theatre at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, 1979-81.Directed a touring retrospective of his one-act plays, Albee Directs Albee, 1978-79.Produced, and directed plays with Richard Barr and Clinton Wilder for the New Playwrights Unit Workshop, 1963.Even in his school years, often wrote eighteen hours a day his early work, poetry and fiction, wrote his first play, The Zoo Story, at twenty-nine.Left for New York in 1950 where he worked at odd jobs (office boy, counterman, record salesman, Western Union messenger) for a decade while he concentrated on writing shared extremely modest living arrangements for nine years with a young composer, William Flanagan.Rather unenthusiastically attended varioius private schools, including Lawrenceville prepatory school, Valley Forge Military Academy, and Choate attended Trinity College briefly (1946-47).
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