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Alfred Fox Uhry (born December 3, 1936) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He has received an Academy Award, two Tony Awards and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for dramatic writing for Driving Miss Daisy. He is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers .
Driving Miss Daisy is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Bruce Beresford and written by Alfred Uhry, based on his 1987 play of the same name. The film stars Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, and Dan Aykroyd. Freeman reprised his role from the original Off-Broadway production.
- $7.5 million
- Hans Zimmer
- December 15, 1989
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Alfred Uhry. The plays in Alfred Uhry’s theatrical “Atlanta trilogy” were inspired by the writer’s experience of growing up Southern and Jewish in Georgia’s capital in the 1940s and 1950s.
Nov 5, 2019 · Read about the real life inspiration behind Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning play “Driving Miss Daisy” which ran at The Smith Center in the 2019-2020 season.
Alfred Uhry, a native of Atlanta, is the author of several successful plays, including Driving Miss Daisy (1987), The Last Night of Ballyhoo (1997), and Parade (1998). Uhry has received a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, and several Tony Awards over the course of his career. Photograph by Carol Rosseg. Civil Rights Movement. James Oglethorpe.
Alfred Fox Uhry (born December 3, 1936) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He has received an Academy Award, two Tony Awards and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for dramatic writing for Driving Miss Daisy. He is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
