Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

John Pielmeier

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Garrison, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1995, 2009

John Pielmeier's plays include Agnes of God (Broadway); The Boys of Winter (Broadway); Voices In The Dark (Edgar Award, Broadway). His works for film and television includ Agnes of God (Writers Guild nomination); Choices of the Heart (Humanitas Award, Christopher Award, Writers Guild nomination); Sins of the Father (Humanitas nomination, Writers Guild nomination); Hitler: The Rise of Evil (Emmy nomination); The Memory Keeper’s Daughter (Emmy nomination, Writers Guild nomination). His adaptations of Patricia Cornwell’s At Risk and The Front were filmed for Lifetime, and his eight-hour adaptation of Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth were filmed for international distribution. He also adapted The Exorcist for the stage. He is married to playwright/poet Irene O’Garden. They live in Garrison, NY.

Studios

Chapman

John Pielmeier worked in the Chapman studio.

Chapman Studio was funded by Mrs. Alice Woodrough Chapman in memory of her husband, composer George Alexander Chapman. Symmetrically massed, the building is stuccoed on the exterior with a natural, unpainted cement. Its unusual half-timbered ornament consists of slender, knotty spruce poles painted a dark green color. A central, peak-roofed entrance porch appears on the north side…

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