Phyllis Nagy
Phyllis Nagy (born November 7, 1962 in New York City ) is an American playwright and screenwriter.
Life
Phyllis Nagy is the daughter of Virginia Marie Sottile and Peter Thomas Nagy. In 1987 she assisted Patricia Highsmith with a research assignment for the New York Times and became friends with her, they then conducted extensive correspondence and met occasionally. In 1992 she moved to London and has worked as a playwright ever since. At the Royal Court Theater she was initially employed as writer-in-residence for Stephen Daldry . Her piece Weldon Rising was performed there and in the Liverpool Playhouse in 1992, and Butterfly Kiss in 1994 at the Almeida Theater . In 1994 she realized a stage version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts with The Scarlet Letter and a commissioned work for the Actors Theater of Louisville with Trip's Cinch .
Her play Disappeared received the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 1995, it was published under her direction in 1995 at the Royal Court and was staged in 1997 by Andreas von Studnitz at the Maxim Gorki Theater . In October 1998 she performed Highsmith's novel The Talented Mr Ripley at Watford Palace Theater and Never Land at the Royal Court Theater that same year . In summer 2003 she directed Chekhov's The Seagull at the Chichester Festival Theater .
Nagy's screenplay and film direction for Mrs. Harris - Murder in the Best Circles was nominated at the 2006 Emmy Awards in the Miniseries category, and the screenplay was based on Shana Alexander's Mrs. Harris , among others . In 2011, her then-producer Elizabeth Karlsen took over her screenplay for Patricia Highsmith's Salt and Its Prize , which she had been projecting since 1996 and which she had played through with various directors since 2000 without coming to a decision. Nagy, Karlsen, producer Christine Vachon and director Todd Haynes made the film in 2014, which was shown as Carol in Cannes in 2015 and released in theaters in late 2015.
Works (selection)
- The talented Mr. Ripley . Based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith. London: Methuen Drama, 1999
- The scarlet letter . Based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. New York: London: Samuel French, 1995.
literature
- Elaine Aston: Feminist Views on the English Stage . Cambridge University Press 2002 ISBN 978-0-521-80003-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Phyllis Nagy in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Phyllis Nagy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Phyllis Nagy , at Casarotto
- Phyllis Nagy: On Screen Writing and CAROL , Interview, at: the laughing lesbian, November 13, 2015
- Paula Cocozza: How Patricia Highsmith's Carol became a film: “Lesbianism is not an issue. It's a state of normal " , in: The Guardian , November 12, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Phyllis Nagy , Vita until 1996 at filmreference
- ↑ Louis Jordan: Carol's Happy End , in: Slate , November 2015
- ↑ Without a trace , translation by Marion Kagerer, at Rowohlt-Theaterverlag
- ↑ She Didn't Mean to Kill Him, or Did She? A Scandal Revisited , New York Times , February 24, 2006
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nagy, Phyllis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American playwright and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |