with Horton Foote on Jul 15, 1999
with Horton Foote on Apr 3, 1997
Horton Foote is a two-time Academy Award and one-time Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated American author and playwright. Perhaps, his most well-known work is his screenplay for “To Kill a Mockingbird”.
Foote has had plays produced on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway and at many regional theatres. They include “Getting Frankie Married and Afterwards”, which received its world premiere at South Coast Repertory in 2002, and “The Young Man From Atlanta”, for which he won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize. The Goodman Theatre production that was presented on Broadway in New York City in 1997 was nominated for Best Play, but did not win. The production starred Rip Torn, Shirley Knight and William Biff McGuire. Knight and McGuire were also nominated for Tony Awards.
Foote received an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Screen Award for his adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” in 1962. His original screenplay Tender Mercies won an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, as well as the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay.
