Doug Cooney is a playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. His play The Final Tour was workshopped at Sundance Theater Labs with Moises Kaufman directing John Neville and Mary Lou Rosato. He collaborated with composer David O on an original youth musical, The Legend of Alex, produced by the Mark Taper Forum P.L.A.Y., and the musical adaptation of George Saunders’ The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, developed at the Kennedy Centers New Visions/New Voices for the Taper P.L.A.Y production. Cooney is also the author of a series of books published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, including The Beloved Dearly, I Know Who Likes You and No Such Thing as Magic. Cooney has been honored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacArthur Foundation, the Lila-Wallace Reader’s Digest Fund, MacDowell and the State of Florida. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Doug Cooney
Studios
New Hampshire
Doug Cooney worked in the New Hampshire studio.
New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…