Mac Wellman

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Mac Wellman (born 1945) is an American playwright, author, and poet. Wellman is the Donald I. Fine Professor of Play Writing at Brooklyn College, New York City, where he is known affectionately by his students as "Mac the Spoon" (a pun on 'Mack the Knife', a character from The Threepenny Opera). Wellman is author to more than forty plays, including Harm's Way (1978), The Self-Begotten (1982), The Bad Infinity (1983), Dracula (1987), Whirligig (1988), Crowbar (1989), 7 Blowjobs (1991), Terminal Hip (1984), Murder of Crows and Description Beggared or the Allegory of WHITENESS (2000). He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, McNight and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1990 he received an Obie award for Best New American Play (for Bad Penny, Terminal Hip, and Crowbar). In 1991 he received another Obie award for Sincerity Forever.^[1] He has received a Lila Wallace-Readers’ Digest Writers Award, and most recently the 2003 Obie award for Lifetime Achievement. He is a co-founder of The Flea Theater in New York City.

[edit] Works cited

Wellman, Mac. 1994. The Bad Infinity: Eight Plays. PAJ Books Ser. Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801846889.
http://www.macwellman.com