Lee Blessing

Lee Knowlton Blessing (born 4 October 1949) is an American playwright.

Biography

Blessing's best-known play is A Walk in the Woods, which depicts the developing relationship between two arms limitation negotiators, one Russian and one American, over years of negotiation. The play was nominated for both a Tony award and a Pulitzer Prize.

Blessing's recent plays include A Body of Water, Whores, The Scottish Play, Black Sheep, Fortinbras, and many others. He has also written one act plays including The Roads That Lead Here and Eleemosynary.

Blessing graduated from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, and he currently heads the graduate playwriting program at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.

Blessing is married to fellow playwright Melanie Marnich.

Bibliography (With date of first production or of publication)

• The Authentic Life Of Billy The Kid (1979)

Formerly "The Real Billy The Kid" (1975)

• Oldtimers Game (1981)
• Nice People Dancing To Good Country Music (1982)
• Independence (1983)
• Riches (aka War Of The Roses) (1984)
• Eleemosynary (1985)
• A Walk In The Woods (1986)
• Two Rooms (1988)
• Cobb (1989)
• Down The Road (1989)
• Fortinbras (1991)
• Lake Street Extension (1992)
• Patient A (1993)
• Going To St. Ives (1996)
• Chesapeake (1999)
• The Winning Streak (2000)
• Thief River (2000)
• Black Sheep (2001)
• The Roads That Lead Here (2002)
• Snapshot (2002)
• Tyler Poked Taylor (2002)
• Whores (2002)
• Flag Day (2004)
• The Scottish Play (2005)
• A Body of Water (2005)
• Lonesome Hollow (2006)
• Moderation (2007)
• Great Falls (2008)
• Perilous Night (2008)
• Into You (2009)
• Heaven's My Destination (2009)

References

External links

• Lee Blessing - Downstage Center interview at American Theatre Wing.org
• Lee Blessing -- entry in The Playwrights Database
• Lee Blessing Collection at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin