John Patrick Shanley (1950-) is a playwright from the Bronx. He is famous for insisting in his contract that not a single word can be changed in the screenplays that he writes.

For his script for the 1987 film, Moonstruck, Shanley won the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.

In 2005, John Patrick Shanley's Off-Broadway play, Doubt, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Screenplays

• The Waltz of the Tulips (2006)
• Live From Baghdad (2002) (TV, Emmy)
• Congo (1995)
• Alive (1993)
• Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) - also directed
• January Man (1989)
• Moonstruck (1987)
• Five Corners (1987)

Stage plays

• Welcome to the Moon (1982)
• Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (1983)
• Savage In Limbo (1984)
• The Dreamer Examines His Pillow (1985)
• Italian American Reconciliation (1986)
• Women of Manhattan (1986)
• All For Charity (1987)
• Italian American Reconciliation (1988)
• The Big Funk (1990)
• Beggars in the House of Plenty (1991)
• What Is This Everything? (1992)
• Kissing Christine (1995)
• Missing Marisa (1995)
• Psychopathia Sexualis (1998)
• Where's My Money? (2001)
• Cellini (2001)
• Dirty Story (2003)
• Doubt (2004)
• Sailor's Song (2004)

External links

IMDB Page

Stage Door bio