Martin Sherman
Martin Sherman (* 1938 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American playwright , screenwriter and author .
Life
Sherman attended Boston University College of Fine Arts and graduated in 1960. After completing his studies, he wrote various plays. He was best known on Broadway for the play Bent , which was nominated for a Tony Award in 1980 and later filmed under the same title . The play is about the fate of homosexual people in a concentration camp in the 1940s. Sherman also wrote the screenplay for The Boy from Oz , which is based on the life of Peter Allen . For this he received another Tony Award nomination. His play Rose was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award .
In 2017 he starred in the movie Sea Sorrow .
Works (selection)
- Passing By
- 1979: Bent
- 1992: Clothes in the Wardrobe
- 1996: Indian Summer
- 2002: Callas Forever
- 2003: The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
- 2005: Mrs Henderson Presents
- 2008: Aristo
- 2010: Onassis
- 2017: Gently Down the Stream
Web links
- Martin Sherman at the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Sherman, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American playwright and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , United States |