Richard Nelson

Richard Nelson’s plays have been produced on Broadway, off-Broadway, in the West End, by numerous national theatres across Europe, and at major theaters in Japan, Israel, and Russia. Ten of his plays have been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he is an Honorary Associate Artist. He has directed productions of his plays in the U.S. and the U.K.

His honors include a Tony Award (Best Book of a Musical, for James Joyce’s The Dead, with Shaun Davey) and Olivier Award (Best Play for Goodnight Children Everywhere); two more Tony nominations (Best Play, for Two Shakespearean Actors, and Best Score, as co-lyricist for James Joyce’s The Dead) and another Olivier nomination (Best Comedy, for Some Americans Abroad); two Obie Awards, a Lucille Lortel Award, a New York Drama Critics Circle Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lila Wallace-Readers’ Digest Writers Award, an American Academy of Arts and Letters award; and the PEN/Laura Pels Master Playwright Award.