Matt+Crowley

 **Mart Crowley ** (born August 21, 1935) is an American playwright.Crowley was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. After graduating fromThe Catholic University of American Washington, D.C. in 1957, Crowley headed west to Hollywood, where he worked for a number of television production companies before meeting Natalie Wood on the set of her film Inside Daisy Clover. Wood hired him as her assistant, primarily to give him ample free time to work on his gay-themed play The Boys in the Band, opened off-Broadway to ecstatic reviews on April 14, 1968 and enjoyed a run of 1001 performances. Crowley became part of Wood's inner circle of friends that she called "the nucleus", whose main requirement was that they pass a "kindness" test. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mart_Crowley ) Crowley headed west to Hollywood, where he worked for a number of television production companies before meeting Natalie Wood on the set of her film Inside Daisy Clover. Wood hired him as her assistant, primarily to give him ample free time to work on his gay-themed play The Boys in the Band.



//**The Boys in the Band **//, his first play, was first performed on the New York stage at Theater Four for the first time on April 14, 1968,it ran over 1002 performances. Crowley's second play, //**Remote Asylum **//, was not quite as successful. Crowley's third play opened in the fall of 1975. It was entitled //**A Breeze from the Gulf **// and is based on the early life of Crowley. Fortunately, the play brought back some of the power and energy of Crowley's first play. It earned Crowley a second place vote for the prestigious New York Drama Critics Circle Award.

 

Crowley has not written any new plays since 1984 when he wrote //**Avec Schmaltz **//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> for the Williamstown (Mass.) Theatre Festival. . From 1979 to 1980 he served as the executive script editor for the ABC series "Hart to Hart" and later as the producer. In the early 1980's Crowley returned to television production in California, writing the television movie adaptation of James Kirkwood's //**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">There Must Be a Pony **//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. In 1996, he performed in //**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The Celluloid Closet **//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, which was nominated for an Emmy. He has most recently collaborated in the publication of a children's book called "Eloise Takes a Bawth, " a creation of Kay Thompson. After writing "Eloise in Moscow," Thompson and Hilary Knight went to Rome where they worked on the book for four years. Playwright Mart Crowley lived in Rome nearby and visited them, adding his creative talents. Despite the fact that "Eloise Takes a Bawth" was cataloged by Harper and Row in 1964, the book was never published. Thompson died, but in 2001, Thompson's heirs decided finally to publish "Eloise Takes a Bawth." Hilary Knight again set to work creating art from sketches he'd drawn forty years before. Matt Crowley pieced together the many drafts of Kay text. Her niece and nephew and the editors at Simon & Schuster succeeded in publishing the book with the help of Crowley.

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 3px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 3px; color: #006666; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">**Major Works**


 * The Boys in the Band
 * Remote Asylum
 * A Breeze from the Gulf
 * For Reasons that Remain Unclear
 * Avec Schmaltz
 * The Boys in the Band (film version)
 * Television screenplays
 * Hart to Hart (1996) "Harts in High Season" (senior TV script editor for Hart to Hart)
 * Remember (1993)
 * People Like Us (1990)
 * Bluegrass (1988)
 * There Must Be a Pony (1986)
 * Eloise Takes a Bawth

(Sources:<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 27px;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mart_Crowley, http://gayfortoday.blogspot.com/2007/08/mart-crowley.html ,http://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/writers/mart-crowley.html )