Stephen Adly Guirgis

Stephen Adly Guirgis, born in 1965 and raised on the Upper West Side of New York City, has written plays and screenplays and also worked as an actor and director, and he belongs to the LAByrinth Theater Company, where he was once co-artistic director. In Arabia We'd All Be Kings reached Off-Broadway in 1999, and a London staging of Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train earned an Olivier Award nomination for Best New Play. Our Lady of 121st Street, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, drew nominations from the Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel awards, while The Motherfucker with the Hat earned seven Tony Award nominations after its 2011 Broadway premiere. The 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama went to Between Riverside and Crazy. His screen credits include supporting roles in Palindromes (2005) and Margaret (2011), and he appeared in Jack Goes Boating (2010) and Synecdoche, New York (2008).