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Richard Greenberg

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Richard Greenberg · Arts & Literature

What

Tony Award — Best Play

When

1958, East Meadow, New York, United States — 2025, New York City, United States

Where

United States

Prizes and awards
Biography

Richard Greenberg is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Tony Award — Best Play

How & why

Greenberg was a prolific American playwright known for wry, articulate depictions of middle-class life, whose baseball drama Take Me Out won the 2003 Tony Award for Best Play. He wrote more than two dozen plays and adaptations over a long career. He appears on a roster of Jewish Tony recipients; he grew up in a Jewish family on Long Island.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for Best Play

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Tony Award — Best Play

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for Best Play