Richard Nelson (playwright)
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Richard Nelson (b. Chicago, IL, 1950) is an award-winning American playwright and librettist. His plays include Some Americans Abroad, Goodnight Children Everywhere, Two Shakesperian Actors, New England, and many others. He wrote the books for the musicals James Joyce's The Dead and the Broadway version of Chess. He is the chair of the playwriting department at the Yale School of Drama.