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Albee

American  
[awl-bee] / ˈɔl bi /

noun

  1. Edward, 1928–2016, U.S. playwright.


Albee British  
/ ˈɔːlbiː /

noun

  1. Edward. born 1928, US dramatist. His plays include Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), Seascape (1975), Marriage Play (1986), Three Tall Women (1990), and Goat (2004)

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At 16, he made his off-Broadway debut in a 1993 staging of Edward Albee’s play “Finding the Sun.”

From The Wall Street Journal

As Edward Albee put it, “what Shepard’s plays are about is a great deal less interesting than how they are about it.”

From The Wall Street Journal

In the early ’60s, Shepard escaped to New York and with lightning speed infiltrated off-Broadway, inspired by Samuel Beckett, Edward Albee and a host of experimental playwrights.

From Los Angeles Times

Fifty miles south, in Fountain Valley, Danny Tran, who with his wife, Albee, runs Son Fish Sauce, sat down to write a message to his employees and customers.

From Los Angeles Times

Her work is not strictly autobiographical, but as in the plays of Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee or Adrienne Kennedy, she has a canny way of rearranging the emotional furniture of her lived experience into tragicomedy.

From New York Times