John Guare’s plays include A Free Man of Color (Pulitzer Prize finalist), House of Blue Leaves (NY Drama Critics Circle Award); Six Degrees of Separation (NY Drama Critics Circle Award; London’s Olivier Award) ; Landscape of the Body;  the Lydie Breeze trilogy, Two Gentlemen of Verona (Tony award); Sweet Smell of Success (Tony nomination Best book for a musical);  Atlantic City (Oscar nomination Best Original screenplay) PEN Master Dramatist Award; American Academy of Arts and Letters: Gold Medal in Drama. Council member Dramatists Guild;  Founder and co-editor of the Lincoln Center Theater Review