Peter Parnell
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Peter Parnell is an American
playwright
. His plays include The Cider House Rules, Flaubert's Latest, Hyde in Hollywood, An Imaginary Life, QED
, Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket, Romance Language, Scooter Thomas Makes It to the Top of the World, and Sorrows of Stephen
.
Parnell is also noted for co-writing the In This White House episode of the West Wing series with Aaron Sorkin
, and the book And Tango Makes Three
with Justin Richardson
. He has a cat named George.
His latest play Trumpery, which revolves around the mystery of Charles Darwin
, was performed by the Atlantic Theatre Company in November 2007.
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playwright
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
. His plays include The Cider House Rules, Flaubert's Latest, Hyde in Hollywood, An Imaginary Life, QED
QED (play)
QED is a play by American playwright Peter Parnell, which chronicles a day in the life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman...
, Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket, Romance Language, Scooter Thomas Makes It to the Top of the World, and Sorrows of Stephen
Sorrows of Stephen
Sorrows of Stephen is a play by Peter Parnell, and was originally published in 1980. The original production was at the New York Shakespeare Festival.-Synopsis:...
.
Parnell is also noted for co-writing the In This White House episode of the West Wing series with Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Benjamin Sorkin is an Academy and Emmy award winning American screenwriter, producer, and playwright, whose works include A Few Good Men, The American President, The West Wing, Sports Night, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Social Network, and Moneyball.After graduating from Syracuse...
, and the book And Tango Makes Three
And Tango Makes Three
And Tango Makes Three is a 2005 children's book written by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson and illustrated by Henry Cole. The book is based on the true story of Roy and Silo, two male Chinstrap Penguins in New York's Central Park Zoo...
with Justin Richardson
Justin Richardson
Justin Richardson is an American author best known for co-authoring And Tango Makes Three with Peter Parnell. And Tango Makes Three is a children's picture book based on the true story of two male penguins in the Central Park Zoo who pair-bonded, built a nest, and together hatched an egg...
. He has a cat named George.
His latest play Trumpery, which revolves around the mystery of Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
, was performed by the Atlantic Theatre Company in November 2007.