Sep 27 2009
First Love
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Production 9:
First Love, by Murray Schisgal (Comedy)
Starring Nancy Kawalek and Don Stewart
[Playing Time: 43:42]
(An ex-husband turns up, complete with empty soda bottles and script ideas.)
Murray Schisgal, born in 1926, is an award-winning American playwright and screenwriter. A native New
Yorker, Schisgal won his first recognition for the 1963 off-Broadway double-bill The Typists and The Tiger, which won him the Drama Desk Award. His 1965 Broadway debut, Luv, earned him Tony Award nominations for Best Play and Best Author of a Play. Other plays include: Jimmy Shine, The Chinese and Dr. Fish, An American Millionaire, and All Over Town. He wrote screenplays for “Ducks and Lovers” and “The Tiger Makes Out,” and with Larry Gelbart co-wrote the screenplay for “Tootsie,” for which he was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe and for which he won awards from the New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Teleplays: “The Love Song of Barney Kempinski” and “Natasha Kovolina Pipishinsky.” Fiction: Days and Nights of a French Horn Player.
