Neil Simon，太裔，美百老最盛名的作家，以擅描笑中的喜而名，舞台、、百老歌舞等皆量厚，得。我甚至在Neil Simon Festival的上看到他被代的莎士比──以他的本演的妹告我，在美，每年本搬演率的第一名作家是莎士比，第二名是Neil Simon。
他的作品很多，也和四女人了五次婚，象有舞者有演，除了第一段婚姻持了20年，之後和其他三女人的婚姻大概都持了八到十年左右。〈第四任老婆1999年婚至今〉
和第一任老婆生了孩子，和第三任老婆又了一孩子。
Simon的情和作品量一富啊，真是有他的。
Neil Simon是在弟妹的《世家人》──翻自他的原作Briton Beach Memories.
部自家庭共有三部曲，分：
Briton Beach Memories.
Biloxi Blues
Broadway Bound
其中前二部曲皆有被拍成影。
本充厚的自味道，1937年，一美太家庭在政不安的局下的悲喜交，那悲和喜自家人的互，和主角正在青春期中的成──上半展了如香蕉成熟的青迷，幽默爆笑，下半揭露了每人的和生命，馨而不狗血。同是家庭，Tennessee Williams地於激情和性，或是因他生於一混不安的家庭。
格的作家出家庭的本，是否有自成分存在其是很容易辨的；那其中的感情是如此厚，而且中人物充真的描和大的同情。以後有再例明。
台上演他的作有《再女郎》〈果陀〉和《情正》〈表演工作坊〉。是目前我所知道的。
以下是基百科他的介。
Neil Simon (born Marvin Neil Simon July 4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City), is a Jewish American playwright and screenwriter. He’s one of the most reliable hitmakers in Broadway history, as well as one of the most performed playwrights in the world.
Simon briefly attended New York University in 1946. Two years later, he quit his job as a mailroom clerk in the Warner Brothers offices in Manhattan to write radio and television scripts with his brother Danny Simon. Their revues for Camp Tamiment in Pennsylvania in the early 1950s caught the attention of Sid Caesar, who hired the duo for his popular TV comedy series Your Show of Shows. (Simon later incorporated their experiences into his play Laughter on the 23rd Floor.) His work won him two Emmy Award nominations and the appreciation of Phil Silvers, who hired him to write for his eponymous sitcom in 1959.
In 1961, Simon’s first Broadway play, Come Blow Your Horn, opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, where it ran for 677 performances. Six weeks after its closing, his second production, the musical Little Me (starring former boss Caesar), opened to mixed reviews. Although it failed to attract a large audience, it earned Simon his first Tony Award nomination. Overall, he has garnered seventeen Tony nominations and won three. He has also won a Pulitzer Prize in drama for Lost In Yonkers.
His prolific output includes light comedies (Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple), darker, more autobiographical works (Chapter Two, the Eugene trilogy comprised of Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound) and books for musical comedies (Sweet Charity, Promises, Promises).
He has also written screenplays for over 20 films. These include adaptations of his own plays as well as original work, including The Out-of-Towners, Murder by Death and The Goodbye Girl. He has received four Best Screenplay Academy Award nominations.
Simon has been married five times, to dancer Joan Baim (1953-1973), actress Marsha Mason (1973-1981), twice to Diane Lander (1987-1988 and 1990-1998), and actress Elaine Joyce (1999-present). He is the father of Nancy and Ellen, from his first marriage, and Bryn, whom he adopted with Lander.
Simon has an honorary L.H.D. degree from Hofstra University and an honorary D.H.C. degree from Williams College. He is the owner of the Eugene O’Neill Theatre as well as the namesake of another Broadway house.
作品年表和得
Plays
Come Blow Your Horn (1961)
Little Me (1962)
Barefoot in the Park (1963)
The Odd Couple (1965)
Sweet Charity (1966)
The Star-Spangled Girl (1966)
Plaza Suite (1968)
Promises, Promises (1968)
The Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1969)
The Gingerbread Lady (1970)
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1971)
The Sunshine Boys (1972)
The Good Doctor (1973)
God’s Favorite (1974)
California Suite (1976)
Chapter Two (1977)
They’re Playing Our Song (1979)
I Ought to Be in Pictures (1980)
Fools (1981)
Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983)
Biloxi Blues (1985)
The Odd Couple (Female version, 1985)
Broadway Bound (1986)
Rumors (1988)
Lost in Yonkers (1991)
Jake’s Women (1992)
The Goodbye Girl (1993)
Laughter on the 23rd Floor (1993)
London Suite (1995)
Proposals (1997)
The Dinner Party (2000)
45 Seconds from Broadway (2001)
Screenplays
1963 - Come Blow Your Horn - Director: Bud Yorkin, screenplay by Norman Lear (with Frank Sinatra and Lee J. Cobb)
1966 - After the Fox - Director: Vittorio DeSica (with Peter Sellers and Victor Mature) 1967 - Barefoot in the Park - Director: Gene Saks (with Robert Redford and Jane Fonda)
1968 - The Odd Couple - Director: Gene Saks (with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau)
1969 - Sweet Charity - Director: Bob Fosse (with Shirley MacLaine, Chita Rivera and Sammy Davis Jr.)
1970 - The Out-of-Towners - Director: Arthur Hiller (with Jack Lemmon)
1971 - Plaza Suite - Director: Arthur Hiller (with Walter Matthau)
1972 - The Last of the Red Hot Lovers - Director: Gene Saks (with Alan Arkin)
1972 - The Heartbreak Kid - Director: Elaine May (with Cybill Shepard and Charles Grodin)
1975 - The Prisoner of Second Avenue - Director: Melvin Frank (with Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft)
1975 - The Sunshine Boys - Director: Herbert Ross (with Walter Matthau and George Burns)
1976 - Murder by Death - Director: Robert Moore (with Walter Matthau, Truman Capote, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, David Niven and Peter Sellers)
1977 - The Goodbye Girl - Director: Herbert Ross (with Richard Dreyfuss)
1978 - The Cheap Detective - Director: Robert Moore (with Peter Falk, Louise Fletcher, Stockard Channing, Madeline Kahn, John Houseman, Nicol Williamson and Eileen Brennan)
1978 - California Suite - Director: Herbert Ross (with Jane Fonda, Alan Alda, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Walter Matthau, Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby)
1980 - Seems Like Old Times - Director: Jay Sandrich (with Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase)
1982 - I Ought To Be In Pictures - Director: Herbert Ross (with Walter Matthau)
1982 - Sonny Boys - Director: Rolf von Sydow (with Carl-Heinz Schroth and Johannes Heesters)
1983 - Max Dugan Returns - Director: Herbert Ross (with Matthew Broderick, Marsha Mason, Jason Robards, Kiefer Sutherland and Donald Sutherland)
1984 - The Lonely Guy - Director: Arthur Hiller (with Steve Martin)
1985 - The Slugger’s Wife - Director: Hal Ashby (with Michael O’Keefe and Rebecca De Mornay)
1988 - Biloxi Blues - Director: Mike Nichols (with Matthew Broderick and Christopher Walken)
1991 - The Marrying Man - Director: Jerry Rees (with Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin)
1993 - Lost in Yonkers - Director: Martha Coolidge (with Richard Dreyfuss)
1995 - The Sunshine Boys - Director: John Erman (with Woody Allen and Peter Falk)
1998 - The Odd Couple II - Director: Howard Deutch (with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau)
2001 - Sonny Boys - Director: Jrg Hube (with Werner Schneyder and Dieter Hildebrandt)
2004 - The Goodbye Girl (with Patricia Heaton and Jeff Daniels for Turner Network Television)
Awards
Tony Award for
oThe Odd Couple (1965, Best Author, Play)
oBiloxi Blues (1985, Best Play)
oLost in Yonkers (1991, Best Play)
Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (2006)
Kennedy Center Honor (1995)
Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Lost in Yonkers (1991)
Drama Desk Award for Lost in Yonkers (1991, Outstanding New Play)
American Comedy Award for lifetime achievement (1989)
Golden Globe for The Goodbye Girl (1978, Best Screenplay - Motion Picture, Best Motion Picture - Musical/Comedy)
Evening Standard Award for Barefoot in the Park (1967)
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