Artistic Associate:
Horton Foote, Playwright
Horton Foote has had numerous plays produced on Broadway and Off-Broadway. They include plays like Getting Frankie Married—and Afterwards, which received its world premiere at South Coast Repertory in 2002, The Carpetbagger's Children, Last of the Thortons, The Chase, The Trip to Bountiful, The Habitation of Dragons, Night Seasons, Tomorrow, The Orphan's Home Cycle (Roots in a Parched Ground, Convicts, Lily Dale, The Widow Claire, Courtship, Valentine's Day, 1918, Cousins, The Death of Papa), Dividing the Estate, Talking Pictures, The Roads to Home, Laura Dennis, Vernon Early and many one-act plays. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama The Young Man From Atlanta. The Goodman Theatre production that was presented on Broadway in New York City in 1997 was nominated for Best Play. Foote received two Academy Awards, one for his adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird and another for his original screenplay Tender Mercies.