Donald Margulies Biography

Born in Brooklyn in 1954 Donald Margulies grew up in Trump Village a Coney Island housing project built by Donald Trump's father. Margulies was exposed early to the theatre. His father a wallpaper salesman played show tunes on the family hi-fi and despite a limited income often took his children to Manhattan to attend Broadway plays and musicals.
Margulies studied visual arts at the Pratt Institute before transferring to State University of New York to pursue a degree in playwriting. During the early 80s he collaborated with Joseph Papp and his first Off-Broadway play Found a Peanut was produced at the Public Theatre. In 1983 he moved with his wife to New Haven Connecticut so that she could attend Yale Medical School.
In 1992 Margulies' career really began to take off when Sight Unseen won an Obie for Best New American Play. Some of his other plays include The Loman Family Picnic; Pitching to the Star; Zimmer; Luna Park; What's Wrong With This Picture?; The Model Apartment; Broken Sleep; July 7 1994 and The God of Vengeance. Dinner With Friends--which tells the story of a seemingly happy couple who re-examine their own relationship when their best friends decide to divorce--won Margulies a 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He had previously been nominated for a Pulitzer for Collected Stories a play about a Jewish writer who is betrayed by her young disciple.

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