photo by A Vincent Scarano
LEE BLESSING
CHESAPEAKE
New York's Signature Theater devoted its second season to Lee Blessing's
work, including the world premiere of PATIENT A. Blessing's A WALK IN THE WOODS ran on Broadway; the production later toured to Moscow.
It was also seen in London's West End, starring Sir Alec Guinness, and on P B S's
American Playhouse. His plays have been nominated for the Tony and Olivier Awards as well as the Pulitzer Prize, have
premiered at the Manhattan Theater Club, Yale Repertory Theater, La Jolla Playhouse and Actors Theater of Louisville, among others. Awards
include the American Theater Critics Award, the George
and Elisabeth Maron Award and the L A Drama Critics Circle Award (for his widely produced ELEEMOSYNARY). Blessing
has received grants from the N E A as well as the Guggenheim, Bush,
McKnight, and Jerome Foundations. Heinemann has published two collections of his work. Blessing's T N T film
Cooperstown, starring Alan Arkin and Graham Greene, won the Humanitas Prize and three Cable Ace
nominations, including best screenplay. With collaborator Jeanne Blake he's written for
Homicide: Life on the Street, Picket Fences and Nothing Sacred, as well as the Andrew Davis feature film
Steal Big, Steal Little.