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John Pielmeier began his career as an actor, working at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Guthrie Theater, Milwaukee Rep, Alaska Rep, Baltimore's Center Stage, and the O'Neill National Playwrights' Conference. It was at the O'Neill that his play AGNES OF GOD was first staged. A co-winner of the 1979 Great American Play Contest, AGNES OF GOD premiered professionally in March 1980 at Actors Theatre of Louisville, followed by several regional productions and a seventeen-month run on Broadway. His other plays include COURAGE, a one-man show about J.M. Barrie that premiered in Louisville, opened the new theater at the Lambs' Club in New York City, and has been filmed by Kentucky Educational Television; JASS, presented at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference; YOUNG RUBE, a musical comedy (with music and lyrics by Matthew Selman) based on the formative years of cartoonist/inventor Rube Goldberg; and WILLI, a one-man show based on the speeches of mountaineer Willi Unsoeld. For “Choices of the Heart,” a television movie he wrote about the slain American missionaries in El Salvador, he received a Christopher Award, the Humanitas Award, a Writers Guild of America nomination, and an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from St Edward's University in Austin, Texas. He has written several movies for television, as well as the screenplay for the film “Agnes of God” (Writers Guild nomination). He is a member of The Dramatists Guild, The Writers Guild of America East, and an alumni member of New Dramatists. He is a past recipient of an NEA grant and a Shubert fellowship. He is married to poet/author/bookmaker Irene O'Garden and resides in Garrison, New York.
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John Pielmeier. Selected Plays: Agnes of God (Broadway); The Boys of Winter (Broadway); Sleight of Hand (Broadway); Voices in the Dark (Edgar Award, Broadway); Slow Dance With a Hot Pickup (musical with Matty Selman, winner of New Hampshire Theatre Award, Best New Play). Selected Film and TV: Agnes of God (WGA nomination); Choices of the Heart (Humanitas Award, Christopher Award, WGA nomination); Sins of the Father (Humanitas nomination, WGA nomination); Hitler: The Rise of Evil (Emmy nomination); The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Emmy nomination, WGA nomination); Gifted Hands (Humanitas nomination,\nImage Award, Epiphany Award); The Pillars of the Earth. He has written and had produced over twenty films for television. He is married to playwright/poet Irene O'Garden.
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