Bruce Norris

Bruce Norris (born May 16, 1960 in Texas ) is an American playwright who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Theater in 2011 for his play Clybourne Park .

Life

Bruce Norris completed a degree in theater studies at Northwestern University after attending school and graduated in 1982. He then worked as an actor at various theaters such as the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago , but also at Broadway theaters , where he appeared in plays by David Hirson , Wendy Wasserstein and Neil Simon . As a theater actor, he was nominated three times for the Chicago Joseph Jefferson Award for his performances in Puntila and His Hired Man (1986), The Mystery of Irma Vep (1987) and Black Snow (1993).

He is also employed as a film actor and made his debut in 1983 in the film Class , which was followed by appearances in almost twenty other films and television series . His best-known films include Civil Trial (1998), Reach The Rock (1998), The Sixth Sense (1999) and All Beauty Must Die (2010).

He then began to work himself as a playwright in the early 1990s and wrote with The Actor Retires (1992) his first play, which, like many other of his plays at Steppenwolf Theater premiere was. As a playwright, he was nominated several times for the Joseph Jefferson Award for We All Went Down to Amsterdam (2003), The Pain and the Itch (2005) and A Parallelogram (2010).

For his play Clybourne Park , which premiered on January 29, 2010 , he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Theater in 2011 .

Dramas

• 1996: The Vanishing Twin
• 2002: The Infidel
• 2002: Purple Heart
• 2006: The Unmentionables
  • German: Staatstheater Mainz , German-language premiere Die Unhörten , February 10, 2012

Filmography (selection)

• 1998: civil case
• 1999: The Sixth Sense
• 2010: All Beauty Must Die (All Good Things)

Web links

• Bruce Norris at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Publications (openlibrary.org)
• Entry (Complete Guide to Playwrights)