Biographies: Beth Henley - Writer

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An American playwright, screenwriter and actress, born on May 8, 1952 in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. Her father was a lawyer and her mother was an actress. She attended Murrah High School in Jackson, then Southern Methodist University. While in college, she completed her first play, a one-act piece entitled "Am I Blue". She taught playwriting at the University of Illinois (Urbana) and the Dallas Minority Repertory Theater from 1975 to 1976. In 1976, she moved to Los Angeles and began working on her play "Crimes of the Heart", for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1981. Her credits include True Stories (1986) and Playing on Air (2021).

• 29 November 2022
• Shaimaa Saied