Terrence McNally was honored by Nathan Lane at the 10th annual Research in Action Awards, a benefit for the Treatment Action Group, one of the leading worldwide organizations in AIDS research advocacy on Sunday, December 10 in New York. McNally was honored for his compelling and provocative work in dealing with HIV/AIDS.
Lane, currently on Broadway in Butley, is a two-time Tony winner--for The Producers in 2001, and for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum in 1996. Other Broadway credits include The Odd Couple, TheFrogs, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Guys and Dolls, Wind in the Willows, Merlin and Present Laughter. He has been seen on screen in Nicholas Nickelby, the Stuart Little films, Love's Labour's Lost, The Birdcage, Jeffrey and more; he also leant his voice to The Lion King.
McNally has garnered Tony Awards for his plays Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class; he was nominated for the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Perfect Ganesh. As a librettist of musicals, he received Tony Awards for his books to Kiss of the Spiderwoman and Ragtime, and was also nominated for The Full Monty. His other plays include Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, The Ritz, The Lisbon Traviata, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, Corpus Christi and Bad Habits. Recently represented on Broadway by Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life, his next play is Deuce.