1. Marsha Norman was born on September 21,1947 and is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist.
18 Facts About Marsha Norman
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Marsha Norman received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play 'night, Mother.
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Marsha Norman wrote the book and lyrics for such Broadway musicals as The Secret Garden, for which she won a Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, and The Red Shoes, as well as the libretto for the musical The Color Purple and the book for the musical The Bridges of Madison County.
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Marsha Norman was co-chair of the playwriting department at The Juilliard School until stepping down in 2020.
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Marsha Norman later began attending productions by the newly founded Actors Theatre of Louisville.
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Marsha Norman received a bachelor's degree from Agnes Scott College and a master's degree from the University of Louisville.
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Marsha Norman worked as a journalist for The Louisville Times newspaper, and wrote for Kentucky Educational Television.
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Marsha Norman taught young children and adolescents in mental institutions and hospitals.
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Marsha Norman taught English at the J Graham Brown School and Prestonia Elementary School in Louisville.
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Marsha Norman stayed away from the theater and turned to screenplays, including a 1986 movie adaptation of 'night, Mother that starred Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft and failed to impress critics.
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Marsha Norman was in high demand in Hollywood, though not always for films that she liked, or that studios would approve.
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Marsha Norman wrote the book and lyrics for the musical The Secret Garden, an adaptation of the Frances Hodgson Burnett novel The Secret Garden, and won the Tony Award for Best Book in 1991.
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Marsha Norman wrote the libretto for the musical version of The Color Purple which opened on Broadway in 2005, receiving a Tony Award nomination for Best Book of a Musical.
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Marsha Norman has since written the libretto for the musical adaptation of the film The Bridges of Madison County, with a score by Brown.
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Marsha Norman has written the television films Face of a Stranger, A Cooler Climate, Custody of the Heart, and The Audrey Hepburn Story.
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Marsha Norman has written screenplays for episodes of the HBO series In Treatment.
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Marsha Norman has served on the faculty of the Juilliard School in New York City as Co-Director of Juilliard's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program, and was Vice-President of the Dramatists Guild of America.
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Marsha Norman was honored at the 2011 William Inge Festival for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre.