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He has received four Tony Awards, two [[Guggenheim Fellowship]]s, an [[I.A.L. Diamond Award]], and a lot more hardware than the Columbia Athletic Department.
 
He has received four Tony Awards, two [[Guggenheim Fellowship]]s, an [[I.A.L. Diamond Award]], and a lot more hardware than the Columbia Athletic Department.
  
In [[2013]], he was the [[Class Day]] speaker for CC.
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==External links==

Latest revision as of 14:11, 19 September 2020

McNally, addressing Columbia College 2013 at Class Day
See also Wikipedia's article about "Terrence McNally".

Terrence McNally CC '60 is a noted playwright.

After flipping a coin to determine whether to attend Columbia or Yale (he'd won a scholarship to both), McNally wound up graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia, where he majored in English. Among his teachers were Steven Marcus, Lionel Trilling, Jacques Barzun, and Mark Van Doren. He also wrote the 1960 Varsity Show, entitled "A Little Bit Different", and wrote for Columbia College Today. He eventually won a scholarship from his work in creative writing class that allowed him to travel to Mexico, where he wrote his first script.

He has received four Tony Awards, two Guggenheim Fellowships, an I.A.L. Diamond Award, and a lot more hardware than the Columbia Athletic Department.


Preceded by
John R. MacArthur
Columbia College Class Day Speaker 
2013
Succeeded by
Dan Futterman


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