MURRAY SCHISGAL
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Murray Schisgal has an extensive career spanning plays, screenplays, fiction, anthologies, and as a producer of five feature films.
A Native New Yorker, Schisgal won his first recognition for the 1963 off-Broadway double-bill The Typists and The Tiger, which won him the Drama Desk Award. His 1965 Broadway debut, Luv, earned him Tony Award nominations for Best Play and Best Author of a Play. Additional credits include Jimmy Shine, The Chinese and Dr. Fish, An American Millionaire, Twice Around the Park, and All Over Town, which garnered him a Drama Desk nomination. |
| Schisgal also penned The Love Song of Barney Kempinski, the first presentation of ABC Stage 67, and with Larry Gelbart co-wrote the screenplay for Tootsie, for which he was nominated for an Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA, and for which he won awards from the Writers Guild of America, New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. |
Broadway: LUV, (*Tony nomination for Best Play and Best Author), JIMMY SHINE, ALL OVER TOWN, (*Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding New Play), THE CHINESE & DOCTOR FISH, TWICE AROUND THE PARK and AN AMERICAN MILLIONAIRE.
Off-Broadway: THE TYPISTS AND THE TIGER (*Vernon Rice Award, * Outer Circle Award, *Saturday Review Critics Poll Award), FRAGMENTS & THE BASEMENT, THE FLATULIST, WALTER, SEXAHOLICS, EXTENSIONS, THE CONSEQUENCES OF GOOSING, etc.
Off-Off-Broadway: ANGEL WINGS (*Off-Off-Broadway Award for Excellence); FIRST LOVE, etc.
Films: TOOTSIE (*Oscar, Golden Globe nominations, etc.; THE TIGER MAKES OUT, LUV (film based on play, LUV.)
Television: "THE LOVE SONG OF BARNEY KEMPINSKI," feature-length teleplay, (*The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy nomination for Outstanding Dramatic Program) and NATASHA KOVOLINA PIPASHINSKY, one-act of a trilogy of one-act teleplays. Producer/Executive Producer of two theatrically released feature-length films, A WALK ON THE MOON and BOYS AND GIRLS; three feature-length films for Showtime TV, THE DEVIL’S ARITHMETIC (*The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy nomination for Outstanding Children's Special, *The Golden Reel Award nomination”); CLUBLAND, (*Best Actor, Emmy nomination); A SEPARATE PEACE (*The National Academy Television Arts and Sciences Emmy nomination for Outstanding Children/Youth/Family Special.).
Novel: DAYS AND NIGHTS OF A FRENCH HORN PLAYER, published by Little, Brown.
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