Biografia

Edward Albee won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "A Delicate Balance", the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "Seascape" and the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "Three Tall Women" He was nominated for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "The Play about the Baby" and the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?".

His favorite actress (his muse) is Marian Seldes. She has appeared in nearly all of his performed plays and also holds the world record for most performances of the same role.

His play, "The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?", at the Remy Bumppo Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois, was awarded the 2011 Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Production of a Play (Midsize).

His play, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", at the Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois, was nominated for the 2011 Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Production of a Play (Large).

His play, "The Sandbox," was awarded the 1990 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Production at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.

[when asked why he writes] It's what I do.

[on Chi ha paura di Virginia Woolf? (1966), which was based on his play but in which he played no part in bringing to the screen] I found that it made an awfully good picture.