Neil Simon

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Neil Simon

• By Nicole Sisneros

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Worlds Most Successful Playwright

• Has dozen plays
• The only writer that has four Broadway
  productions running at the same time
• True gift Exposing something real in American
  spirit

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Background

• Born in the Bronx July 4th 1927
• Marvin Neil Simon
• Grew up in Manhattan
• Attended NYU/ University of Denver
• First writing job (YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS) in the
  early 1950s
• 1973 he was a major voice in comedy
• 1973 his wife died
• 1977 married Marsha Mason

• That year he made Chapter Two
• Based on his experience with a wife who has died
  and re-marrying
• Followed with a musical Theyre Playing Our
  Song
• Had a four-decade career
• Many of his pieces take place in the New York
  neighborhoods he knew as a child

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Autobiographical Trilogy

• Brighton Beach Memories 1983
• Biloxi Blues 1985
• Broadway Bound 1986
• The odd couple 1966
• The Last of the Red Hot Lovers 1950
• Chapter Two 1977
• Lost in Yonkers 1991

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Marvin Neil Simon