Arthur Lee Kopit (1937-2021) was an American playwright. Praised for his ease with language, his impressive theatricality, and his skewering of American popular culture, Kopit wrote plays on a range of subjects.
He was a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, three-time Tony Award nominee, two-time Tony Award winner, and a Vernon Rice Award winner. Kopit attended Lawrence High School in New York and Harvard University, where he staged his first plays. He later taught at Wesleyan University, Yale University, and the City College of New York.
