Take a Free Master Class With Pulitzer Winner Alfred Uhry at The Cherry Lane Theatre

Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Alfred Uhry will conduct a free master class, open to the public, at the Cherry Lane Theatre on Monday, October 5th at 7pm. Reservations are required at company@cherrylanetheatre.org.

The Cherry Lane Theatre's Master Class Program began in 2000 when Edward Albee agreed to take part in a question-and-answer session about his writing process. The event was so successful that he agreed to return the following year for an expanded session that included playwrights Alfred Uhry, Craig Lucas, David Henry Hwang, Marsha Norman and A.R. Gurney.

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Alfred Uhry is distinguished as the only American playwright to have won a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, and two Tony Awards. Uhry began his professional career as a lyric writer under contract to the late Frank Loesser and made his Broadway debut in 1968 as the lyricist for HERE'S WHERE I BELONG. His first major success was Broadway's THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM, for which he wrote the book and lyrics. Uhry's first play, DRIVING MISS DAISY, opened Off Broadway in 1987 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1988, it was later presented on Broadway in 2010 starring James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave. The film version, starring Morgan Freeman, won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Other Broadway credits include THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO (Tony Award), PARADE (Tony Award), WITHOUT WALLS, and the book for the Broadway musical LOVEMUSIK. His latest project, MY PARIS, which he wrote the book for, was presented at Goodspeed Musicals in the summer of 2015. He was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2014.