Kansas' William Inge Center for the Arts is honoring playwright John Patrick Shanley with the William Inge Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre Award. The Doubt playwright will receive the award at the 42nd annual Inge Theatre Festival, set for April 17-19, 2025, at Independence Community College.

“Sometimes you see an extraordinarily masterful work and you are confronted and astonished all at once. Such was the case with the play Doubt: A Parable,” says Festival Director Dee Byrd-Molnar in a statement. “We are extremely excited that John Patrick Shanley will be joining us at the William Inge Theatre Festival this year.”

Bronx native Shanley's plays include Brooklyn Laundry, Prodigal Son, Outside Mullingar, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Savage in Limbo, Italian-American Reconciliation, Welcome to the Moon, Four Dogs and a Bone, Dirty Story, Defiance, and Beggars in the House of Plenty. He won a 2005 Tony Award with Doubt: A Parable and was nominated for Outside Millingar in 2014.

As a screenwriter, Shanley has penned scripts for Wild Mountain Thyme, Doubt, Five Corners, Alive, Joe Versus the Vocano, Live From Baghdad, and Moonstruck. He received an Academy Award and the Writers Guild of America Award for Moonstruck, and has also received a Lifetime Achievement honor from WGA.

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