Beth henley biography

American dramatist (born 1952)

Elizabeth Becker Henley (born May 8, 1952) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actress.

Her play Crimes of the Heart won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 1981 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play, and a nomination for a Tony Award.

Elizabeth Becker Henley (born May 8, ) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actress.

Beth Henley (born May 8, , Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.) is an American playwright of regional dramas set in provincial Southern towns, the best known of.

Elizabeth Becker Henley is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actress.

Playwright and screenwriter Elizabeth Becker Henley was born on 8 May in Jackson to Charles Boyce Henley, a lawyer and Mississippi political figure.

Beth Henley is a modern female Pulitzer prize-winning playwright who creates, according to one critic, “Southern-accented” dramas and preserves “regional voices.

Her screenplay for Crimes of the Heart was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Biography

Henley was born in 1952 in Jackson, Mississippi. She was one of four sisters. Her parents were Charles B.

Henley, an attorney, and Elizabeth Josephine Henley, an actress. Henley attended Murrah High School in Jackson, followed by Southern Methodist University, where she was a member of the acting ensemble.^[1] While at college, Henley completed her first play, a one-act piece entitled Am I Blue.

She graduated from Southern Methodist in 1974 with a BFA.^[2] From 1975 to 1976, she taught playwriting at the University of Illinois (Ur