Stephen Adly Guirgis

Biography

Stephen Adly Guirgis is a playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor born in 1965 in Kearny, New Jersey, to an Egyptian father and Irish American mother. He studied theatre at HB Studio and later attended the University at Albany, SUNY. His plays, including "Between Riverside and Crazy," have received critical acclaim, with "Between Riverside and Crazy" winning the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.