Ralph Pape
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Ralph Pape is an American playwright best known for Say Goodnight Gracie (1978), Beyond Your Command (1998) and Hearts Beating Faster (1997).
Say Goodnight, Gracie ran off-Broadway for 400 performances in 1978 and was staged in 1979 by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company with a cast of John Malkovich, Joan Allen and Glenne Headley. The comedy-drama captures a generation at a turning point in 1976. Five members of the first Television Generation plan to attend their high school reunion. In New York, they gather in an East Village apartment where they discuss their dreams, insecurities, past events and TV shows. As they head toward age 30. they attempt to figure out what to do with their lives.
His other plays include Girls We Have Known, Warm and Tender Love and Soap Opera.
In 2007, Pape was selected as one of America's top 50 playwrights to watch. This was featured in a cover story by The Dramatist, the bi-monthly magazine published by the Dramatists Guild of America. [1]
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- ^ "50 to Watch," The Dramatist, July-August, 2007.
