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John Patrick Shanley

John Patrick Shanley is an American playwright and screenwriter. His plays include Doubt: A Parable (winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play), Outside Mullingar (Tony Award Nomination for Best Play), Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Beggars in the House of Plenty, Dirty Story, Where's My Money?, Four Dogs and a Bone, Defiance and Storefront Church.

He received an Emmy nomination for his television screenplay Live from Baghdad (HBO).

His screenplay for the feature film Moonstruck garnered him an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He wrote and directed the films of both Joe Versus the Volcano and Doubt; the latter earned five Oscar nominations, including Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2008, the Writers Guild of America recognised his contribution to film with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Doubt

Doubt

By John Patrick Shanley

The hit Broadway play, filmed in 2008 with Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Dirty Story and other plays

Dirty Story and other plays

By John Patrick Shanley

Three plays from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Doubt.

Defiance

Defiance

By John Patrick Shanley

A timely play tackling issues of race and authority within the US Marine Corps - part of a trilogy of plays, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Doubt, that explore issues of power and morality within a hallowed American institution.

Outside Mullingar

Outside Mullingar

By John Patrick Shanley

A tale of romance between two neighbours in rural Ireland, by turns poetic, uplifting, dark and funny as hell. From the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning author of Doubt.

Storefront Church

Storefront Church

By John Patrick Shanley

A compassionate morality tale about a elected official in the Bronx forced into a confrontation by the mortgage crisis, Storefront Church is the concluding part of John Patrick Shanley's 'Church and State' trilogy of plays.

Prodigal Son

Prodigal Son

By John Patrick Shanley

An explosive portrait of a young man on the verge of either salvation or destruction, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Doubt.

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