Sight Unseen

Donald Margulies

1992

Jonathan:

I know you do. It cracks me up that you do; it amuses me. You know, up till like eight or nine years ago, let’s not forget, I was painting apartments for a living. Apartments. Walls. Rooms. I was good at it, too. I’d lose myself all day while I painted moldings, then I’d go home and do my own painting all night. A good, simple, hardworking…

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Creator Bio

Donald Margulies

b. 1954

Playwright Donald Margulies grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and now teaches at Yale University. In the 1980s, his play Found a Peanut was produced at the Public Theatre in New York. His Dinner with Friends received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Margulies is also the recipient of the Sidney Kingsley Award, the National Foundation for Jewish Culture’s Literary Arts Award, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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