Background
Nagy, Phyllis was born on November 7, 1962 in New York City. Daughter of Peter Thomas and Virginia Marie (Sottile) Nagy.
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Includes her three Royal Court -performed plays Weldon Rising "Here is the best new play I have seen in many months…This play is exciting because it is well written, unusually constructed and morally serious." (Financial Times); in Butterfly Kiss "Nagy captures the texture of a life and writes short, vivid, often disturbingly erotic scenes…it's a play that leaves me proclaiming Nagy a writer of real talent" (Guardian), Disappeared (winner of the Mobil Prize,1995) "A piece that gets right under your skin…There's no neat solution to Nagy's conundrum, just a fog of fear, despair, and most remarkably of all, a final mirage of escape. Spine-tingling stuff" (Daily Telegraph) The Strip, "kaleidoscopic and hugely accomplished dissection of fate, love and chance" (Independent) "Each play I see by Phyllis Nagy confirms me in the belief that she is the finest playwright to have emerged in the 1990s" (Financial Times)
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"Each play I see by Phyllis Nagy confirms me in the belief that she isthe finest playwright to have emerged in the 1990s" (Alistair Macaulay,Financial Times) WeldonRising: Downtown New York. The temperature is soaring. In themeat-packing district, Natty Weldon's lover is casually butchered by ahomicidal homophobe. The witnesses do not intervene. Natty flees interror, two lesbians watch from their apartment window and a flamboyanttransvestite prostitute cowers in the street below. But life changesfor them after the murder. Disappeared: Sarah Casey, a travelagent who has never been anywhere, meets the mysterious Elston Rupp ina bar in New York's Hell's Kitchen. They walk out together and she isnever seen again. Was she murdered, has she escaped from the city ofloners, or has she simply vanished? Nagy is "the laconic laureate of this spiritual wasteland" (Paul Taylor, Independent)
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Nagy, Phyllis was born on November 7, 1962 in New York City. Daughter of Peter Thomas and Virginia Marie (Sottile) Nagy.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1986. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University.
She moved to London in 1992, where her playwriting career began in earnest at the Royal Court Theatre under the artistic direction of Stephen Daldry for whom she served as the Royal Court"s writer-in-residence in the mid-1990s. Nagy"s plays have been performed in many countries. Disappeared premiered at the Royal Court in 1995 in a production directed by the author which subsequently toured the United Kingdom before a London run at the Royal Court Theatre.
In February 1999 Disappeared was presented at the Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago by RoadWorks Productions.
Nagy"s most recent plays are Never Land, which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in January 1998 in a co-production with The Foundry. And The Talented Mr Ripley, adapted from the novel by Patricia Highsmith which premiered at the Palace Theatre Watford in October 1998 and later produced by the Melbourne Theatre Company in February 1999.
Her version of Chekov"s The Seagull was produced at Chichester Festival Theatre in the summer of 2003. In 2005 she directed a production of The Scarlet Letter at the same venue.
Nagy wrote the screenplay for Carol, an adaption of Patricia Highsmith"s novel The Price of Salt.
She is developing an adaptation of Kate Atkinson"s Case Histories for Film4 Productions.
( Includes her three Royal Court -performed plays Weldon ...)
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Member Writers Guild Great British, Pen American Center, Dramatists Guild.