Michael Ivan Cristofer (born 22 January 1945, Trenton, New Jersey) is an American playwright and filmmaker. He received Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play for The Shadow Box in 1977.
Michael Cristofer was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and an Antoinette Perry “Tony” Award for the Broadway production of his play, THE SHADOW BOX. Subsequent to New York, the play was produced in every major American city and worldwide from Europe to...
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Michael Ivan Cristofer (born 22 January 1945, Trenton, New Jersey) is an American playwright and filmmaker. He received Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play for The Shadow Box in 1977.
Michael Cristofer was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and an Antoinette Perry “Tony” Award for the Broadway production of his play, THE SHADOW BOX. Subsequent to New York, the play was produced in every major American city and worldwide from Europe to the Far East. Other plays include BREAKING UP at Primary Stages; ICE at Manhattan Theatre Club; BLACK ANGEL at Circle Repertory Company; THE LADY AND THE CLARINET starring Stockard Channing, produced by the Mark Taper Forum, Long Wharf Theater, Off-Broadway and on the London Fringe, and AMAZING GRACE starring Marsha Mason which received the American Theater Critics Award as the best play produced in the United States during the 1996-97 season.
Mr. Cristofer’s film work includes the screenplays for THE SHADOW BOX directed by Paul Newman ...
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