Meet the Playwright of Rabbit Hole

David Lindsay-Abaire, Playwright

On a proverbial roll since his first big break in 2000, the then-29-year-old David Lindsay-Abaire was lauded by New York Times chief theatre critic Ben Brantley for his quirky, dark comedy, Fuddy Meers.
A graduate of Julliard’s Playwriting Program, Lindsay-Abaire quickly landed a screenwriting deal with 20th Century Fox and a commission to write a new play for California’s prestigious South Coast Repertory Theatre. That play, Wonder of the World, led to some requisite sophomore criticism but his third play, Kimberly Akimbo, once again garnered critical praise.
Linday-Abaire shunned a lucrative television contract, instead accepting the challenge to write the book and lyrics for no fewer than four musicals: Betty Boop, High Fidelity, My Man Godfrey and Shrek, the Musical, which began its Broadway-bound journey at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre. The book and lyrics Lindsay-Abaire wrote for Shrek were nominated for two 2009 Tony Awards.
While waiting for Shrek to survive its sojourn to the “Great White Way,” Lindsay-Abaire swiftly and quietly finished Rabbit Hole, which made its debut at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York and earned him the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as five Tony Award nominations and the Spirit of America Award.

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