Joseph Kramm
American playwright, actor, director (1907–1992)
Joseph A. Kramm (September 30, 1907 – May 8, 1991) was an American playwright, actor, and director. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1951 for his play The Shrike, later adapted into a motion picture of the same title in 1955. His wife, stage actress Isabel Bonner, died of a brain hemorrhage while performing his play in 1955.[1][2]
Works
Plays
- The Cry of the Watchman (1947)
- Giants, Sons of Giants (Jan. 6–13, 1962)
- The Shrike (November 25, 1953 - December 6, 1953, revived January 15, 1952 - May 31, 1952)
References
External links
- Joseph Kramm at the Internet Broadway Database
- Joseph Kramm at IMDb
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Authors
- Jesse Lynch Williams (1918)
- Eugene O'Neill (1920)
- Zona Gale (1921)
- Eugene O'Neill (1922)
- Owen Davis (1923)
- Hatcher Hughes (1924)
- Sidney Howard (1925)
- George Kelly (1926)
- Paul Green (1927)
- Eugene O'Neill (1928)
- Elmer Rice (1929)
- Marc Connelly (1930)
- Susan Glaspell (1931)
- George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin (1932)
- Maxwell Anderson (1933)
- Sidney Kingsley (1934)
- Zoe Akins (1935)
- Robert E. Sherwood (1936)
- Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman (1937)
- Thornton Wilder (1938)
- Robert E. Sherwood (1939)
- William Saroyan (1940)
- Robert E. Sherwood (1941)
- Thornton Wilder (1943)
- Mary Chase (1945)
- Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay (1946)
- Tennessee Williams (1948)
- Arthur Miller (1949)
- Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan (1950)
- Joseph Kramm (1952)
- William Inge (1953)
- John Patrick (1954)
- Tennessee Williams (1955)
- Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich (1956)
- Eugene O'Neill (1957)
- Ketti Frings (1958)
- Archibald MacLeish (1959)
- Jerome Weidman, George Abbott, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick (1960)
- Tad Mosel (1961)
- Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows (1962)
- Frank D. Gilroy (1965)
- Edward Albee (1967)
- Howard Sackler (1969)
- Charles Gordone (1970)
- Paul Zindel (1971)
- Jason Miller (1973)
- Edward Albee (1975)
- Michael Bennett, Nicholas Dante, James Kirkwood Jr., Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban (1976)
- Michael Cristofer (1977)
- Donald L. Coburn (1978)
- Sam Shepard (1979)
- Lanford Wilson (1980)
- Beth Henley (1981)
- Charles Fuller (1982)
- Marsha Norman (1983)
- David Mamet (1984)
- James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim (1985)
- August Wilson (1987)
- Alfred Uhry (1988)
- Wendy Wasserstein (1989)
- August Wilson (1990)
- Neil Simon (1991)
- Robert Schenkkan (1992)
- Tony Kushner (1993)
- Edward Albee (1994)
- Horton Foote (1995)
- Jonathan Larson (1996)
- Paula Vogel (1998)
- Margaret Edson (1999)
- Donald Margulies (2000)
- David Auburn (2001)
- Suzan-Lori Parks (2002)
- Nilo Cruz (2003)
- Doug Wright (2004)
- John Patrick Shanley (2005)
- David Lindsay-Abaire (2007)
- Tracy Letts (2008)
- Lynn Nottage (2009)
- Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey (2010)
- Bruce Norris (2011)
- Quiara Alegría Hudes (2012)
- Ayad Akhtar (2013)
- Annie Baker (2014)
- Stephen Adly Guirgis (2015)
- Lin-Manuel Miranda (2016)
- Lynn Nottage (2017)
- Martyna Majok (2018)
- Jackie Sibblies Drury (2019)
- Michael R. Jackson (2020)
- Katori Hall (2021)
- James Ijames (2022)
- Sanaz Toossi (2023)
- Eboni Booth (2024)
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