John Pielmeier

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John Pielmeier (born February 23, 1949) is an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist.

Life and career

Pielmeier was born in

Actors Theater of Louisville and the Guthrie Theater
.

In 1976, Pielmeier's first play, A Chosen Room, was produced in

Writers Guild of America Award
for Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

Pielmeier has written extensively for the stage, but his later work never achieved the success he experienced with Agnes of God. On Broadway, The Boys of Winter (1985)

Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Mystery Play. Other plays include Courage, a one-man show about J. M. Barrie that was filmed by Kentucky Educational Television; Young Rube, a musical based on the early years of cartoonist/inventor Rube Goldberg; Willi, a one-man show based on the speeches of mountaineer Willi Unsoeld, a member of the first American expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest; and The Exorcist, a play based on the novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty
.

In 1983, Pielmeier penned the

(2012).

Pielmeier has been married to poet/author Irene O'Garden since October 1982. The couple lives in Garrison, New York.

Publication

  • Voices In The Dark,
    Broadway Play Publishing Inc.
  • Pielmeier, John; Barrie, J. M. (2017). Hook's tale : being the account of an unjustly villainized pirate written by himself. New York.
    OCLC 961005761.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )

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