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  1. Notable awards. Windham-Campbell Literature Prize. MacArthur Fellow. Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Tarell Alvin McCraney (born October 17, 1980) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. He is the chair of playwriting at the Yale School of Drama and a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Ensemble.

  2. Tarell Alvin McCraney is an acclaimed writer. His script In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue is the basis for the Oscar-winning film Moonlight directed by Barry Jenkins, for which McCraney and Jenkins won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. He wrote the film High Flying Bird which premiered on Netflix directed by Steven Soderbergh.

  3. Sep 12, 2023 · Playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney is the new artistic director of Westwood’s Geffen Playhouse, where he was photographed on Sept. 1, 2023. (Jay L. Clendenin /...

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  5. Sep 12, 2023 · Sept. 12, 2023 6 AM PT. In selecting Tarell Alvin McCraney as its new artistic director, the Geffen Playhouse has made a commitment not just to playwrights and playwriting but to the future...

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    • Theater Critic
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  6. Jul 28, 2021 · Tarell Alvin McCraney is a graduate of what is now called the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, where he now chairs the playwriting program. When he was a student at the Yale School of...

    • Terry Gross
  7. Oct 20, 2016 · Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, whose semi-autobiographical script was turned into the film "Moonlight," talks to NBC OUT about turning life into art.

  8. Tarell Alvin McCraney (’07 Drama) is the Chair, and Professor in the Practice of Playwriting at the School of Drama; and is the Yale Repertory Theatre Playwright-in-Residence. He is also a member of Teo Castellanos/D-Projects Theater Company in Miami, a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Ensemble, and co-wrote the 2016 film Moonlight, based on ...

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