David Lindsay-Abaire is an American playwright, lyricist and screenwriter.
15 Facts About David Lindsay-Abaire
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David Lindsay-Abaire received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2007 for his play Rabbit Hole, which earned several Tony Award nominations.
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David Lindsay-Abaire was born David Abaire in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in South Boston.
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David Lindsay-Abaire attended Milton Academy and concentrated in theatre at Sarah Lawrence College, from which he graduated in 1992.
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David Lindsay-Abaire was accepted into the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at the Juilliard School, where he wrote under the tutelage of playwrights Marsha Norman and Christopher Durang from 1996 to 1998.
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David Lindsay-Abaire had his first theatrical success with Fuddy Meers, which was workshopped as part of the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center in 1998 under Artistic Director Lloyd Richards.
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David Lindsay-Abaire returned to the Manhattan Theatre Club in 2001 with Wonder of the World, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, about a wife who suddenly leaves her husband and hops a bus to Niagara Falls in search of freedom, enlightenment, and the meaning of life.
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David Lindsay-Abaire wrote Kimberly Akimbo, Dotting and Dashing, Snow Angel, and A Devil Inside.
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David Lindsay-Abaire wrote the book for the musical High Fidelity, which ran on Broadway in December 2006.
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David Lindsay-Abaire wrote the book and lyrics for the musical Shrek the Musical which ran on Broadway from November 8,2008 to January 3,2010, with Lindsay-Abaire receiving a 2009 Tony Award nomination for Book of a Musical and in the West End in May 2011.
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David Lindsay-Abaire has received commissions from Dance Theater Workshop and the Jerome Foundation.
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In 2021, David Lindsay-Abaire adapted his 2000 play Kimberly Akimbo into a musical of the same name, with a score by Jeanine Tesori.
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David Lindsay-Abaire wrote the screenplay of the 2010 film adaptation of his play Rabbit Hole, which starred Nicole Kidman.
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David Lindsay-Abaire wrote the screenplay for the 2015 horror remake Poltergeist.
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In 2016, David Lindsay-Abaire was named co-director of Juilliard's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program.