Edward Albee to Teach at Princeton University in Fall 2007

Playwright Edward Albee is now set to teach at Princeton University for several months beginning in the Fall of 2007 as part of the Princeton University / McCarter Theatre Playwriting Fellowship program. Albee is the first person named to the fellowship, and will also contribute a new play to a local theatre.

Edward Albee's long list of credits contain some of the theater's greatest plays, for which he's won 3 Tony Awards, and 3 Pulitzers. His credits include: The Zoo Story, The American Dream, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Tiny Alice, A Delicate Balance, All Over, Seascape, The Lady From Dubuque, The Man Who Had Three Arms, Finding the Sun, Marriage Play, Three Tall Women, Fragments, The Lorca Play, The Play About the Baby, The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? and Occupant. Albee was awarded the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1980, and in 1996 he received both the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts.