Donald Margulies reads an excerpt from his breakthrough play "Sight Unseen" during the first event of the 2019 Induction Weekend, "A Celebration of the Arts and Humanities." Held on Friday, October 11, 2019, "A Celebration of the Arts and Humanities" served as the 2082nd Stated Meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
After a welcome from Nancy Andrews and an introduction by David Oxtoby, the celebration featured presentations from newly-elected Academy members Harry J. Elam, Jr., Patricia Barber, Donald Margulies, and Elizabeth Alexander, as well as a short video from Mark Bradford
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Donald Margulies won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Dinner with Friends and was a finalist for Sight Unseen and Collected Stories. His many plays include Long Lost,The Country House, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, Brooklyn Boy, The Loman Family Picnic, What’s Wrong With This Picture?, Found a Peanut, the Tony Award-nominated Time Stands Still, and the Obie Award-winning The Model Apartment. His work has been seen on and off-Broadway, across the United States, and in cities all over the world. Mr. Margulies has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and he has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and the Hermitage Artists’ Retreat. His honors include the Sidney Kingsley Award for Achievement by a playwright, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theatre Award, the William Inge Award, and the Thornton Wilder Prize. The film of his screenplay, The End of the Tour, premiered at Sundance and was nominated for Film Independent Spirit and UCLA Scripter Awards. A lifetime member of both the Writers and Dramatists Guilds, he is an adjunct Professor of English and Theater Studies at Yale University. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.
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