{"id":1656,"date":"2022-01-23T11:27:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T11:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frontfoottheatre.com\/?page_id=1656"},"modified":"2022-06-30T07:23:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T07:23:51","slug":"about-the-author-rabbit-hole","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/frontfoottheatre.com\/?page_id=1656","title":{"rendered":"About The Author (Rabbit Hole)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_half  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  \" ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h3><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">David Lindsey-Abaire is a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, screenwriter, lyricist and librettist.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">His play <em>Rabbit Hole<\/em> received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, five Tony nominations, and the Spirit of America Award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">His play <\/span><em style=\"text-align: justify;\">Good People<\/em><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"> premiered on Broadway, was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, The Horton Foote Prize, The Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, and two Tony nominations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">David also wrote the book and lyrics for <em>Shrek the Musical<\/em>, which was nominated for eight Tonys, four Oliviers, a Grammy, and earned David the Kleban Prize as America\u2019s most promising musical theatre lyricist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">David\u2019s other plays include <em>Ripcord, Fuddy Meers, Kimberly Akimbo, Wonder of the World <\/em>and <em>A Devil Inside<\/em>, among others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition to his work in theatre, David&#8217;s screen credits include his film adaptation of <em>Rabbit Hole<\/em> (starring Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, \u00a0Sandra Oh, Dianne Wiest, Miles Teller and Giancarlo Esposito), Dreamworks\u2019 <em>Rise of the Guardians<\/em>, and <em>The Family Fang<\/em>, among others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2016, Lindsay-Abaire was named co-director of <a title=\"Juilliard School\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Juilliard_School\">Juilliard&#8217;s<\/a> <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Lila Bell Wallace\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lila_Bell_Wallace\">Lila Acheson Wallace<\/a> American Playwrights Program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_one_half  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><p><div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-3  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img class='avia_image' src='https:\/\/frontfoottheatre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/david_lindsay_abaire_bio-scaled.jpg' alt='' title='Shrek the Musical' height=\"2560\" width=\"1707\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>David Lindsay-Abaire<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1656","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontfoottheatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontfoottheatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontfoottheatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontfoottheatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontfoottheatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/frontfoottheatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2334,"href":"https:\/\/frontfoottheatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1656\/revisions\/2334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontfoottheatre.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}