John Patrick Shanley Visits Tomorrow

Here's a great New York Times profile from 2008 of Oscar and Tony-winner John Patrick Shanley (who visits the Writers Institute, Wednesday April 6, 2011): "A former marine and the son of an Irish immigrant father from County Westmeath, he has a lot of other prosaic credits in his résumé, including working as a locksmith, a bartender and an elevator operator. He is, in conversation and approach, very much a product of the kind of hard-knocks Roman Catholic primary school that frames the moral dilemma of 'Doubt.'" More. Shanley will deliver the 15th Annual Burian Lecture cosponsored by the Theatre Department and the Jarka and Grayce Burian Endownment.