Richard Nelson (playwright)

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Richard Nelson (b. Chicago, IL, 1950) is an award-winning American playwright and librettist.He wrote the books for the musicals James Joyce's The Dead and the Broadway version of Chess. For three years he was the chair of the playwriting department at the Yale School of Drama.

[edit] List of Plays

Nelson's plays include:

• An American Comedy
• Bal
• Between East and West
• The Cherry Orchard
• Columbus and the Discover of Japan
• Conjuring an Event
• Don Juan
• Enrico IV
• Frank's Home
• Franny's Way
• The General From America
• Il Campiello
• Jitterbugging: Scenes of Sex in a New Society
• Jungle Coup
• Kenneth's First Play (written with Colin Chambers)
• The Killing of Yablonski
• Left
• Life Sentences
• Madame Melville
• The Marriage of Figaro
• Misha's Party (written with Alexander Gelman)
• Miss Julie (adaptation of August Strindberg)
• New England
• Principia Scriptoriae
• The Return of Pinocchio
• Rip Van Winkle, or "The Works"
• Rodney's Wife
• Scooping
• Some Americans Abroad
• The Seagull (adaption of Anton Chekhov)
• The Suicide
• Three Sisters (adaptation of Anton Chekhov)
• Two Shakespearean Actors
• The Vienna Notes
• The Wood Demon (adaptation of Anton Chekhov)

the above-referenced plays are published by Faber, T C G, and Broadway Play Publishing Inc.

[edit] External links

• Richard Nelson at the Internet Broadway Database