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Elizabeth Becker Henley (born May 8, 1952) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actress. Her play Crimes of the Heart won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 1981 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play, and a nomination for a Tony Award.
Beth Henley is a modern female Pulitzer prize-winning playwright who creates, according to one critic, “Southern-accented” dramas and preserves “regional voices on stage” (Lesniak 199). She has written plays that capture Southern life and help preserve Mississippi’s rich literary culture.
Notable Works: “Crimes of the Heart”. “The Miss Firecracker Contest”. “The Wake of Jamey Foster”. Beth Henley (born May 8, 1952, Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.) is an American playwright of regional dramas set in provincial Southern towns, the best known of which, Crimes of the Heart (1982; filmed 1986), was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in ...
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Crimes of the Heart is a play by American playwright Beth Henley. It is set in Hazlehurst, Mississippi in the mid-20th century. The play won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. In 1986, the play was novelized and released as a book, written by Claudia Reilly.
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Born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, it's no surprise that Beth Henley's written works, both screenplays and plays, commonly center on stories of women in the rural south. The daughter of an actress, she herself participated in the theatre onstage in her teenage years and into college.
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The Miss Firecracker Contest is a Southern literature play written by Beth Henley. [1] . It was originally produced in Los Angeles in 1980 at the Victory Theater directed by Maria Gobetti. It got a production at the Manhattan Theatre Club off-Broadway in 1984 directed by Stephen Tobolowsky, who was Henley's romantic partner at the time.
Elizabeth Becker Henley (born May 8, 1952) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actress. Her play Crimes of the Heart won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 1981 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play, and a nomination for a Tony Award.
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