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In 1976, Pielmeier's first play, A Chosen Room, was produced in Minneapolis. Three years later, Agnes of God was performed in a staged reading at the O'Neill National Playwrights' Conference in Waterford, Connecticut and won the 1979 Great American Play Contest.
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).
John Pielmeier is an actor and writer who began his career with the internationally acclaimed play and movie Agnes of God. Since then he has had three more plays mounted on Broadway and over 25 film, television movies and miniseries produced.
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).
Pielmeier has written many award-winning plays and screenplays, including Agnes of God (1982), Courage (1983), a stage-adaptation of William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist (2012), and countless others. Many of his plays have also been made into movies.
I played the professor. It’s a play about love and loss and madness. It’s a modern adaptation of The Bacchae. It’s my first full-length comedy, a word I was afraid to use until my wife prodded me into tacking it onto the title page.
J.M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, delivers a commencement address to the students of St. Andrew’s University, Scotland. In telling about the heroes he has known throughout his life, each an example of courage in the face of adversity, Barrie opens the locked door to his own life.
