George C. Wolfe
September 23, 1954 · 71 years old
George Costello Wolfe (born September 23, 1954) is an American playwright and director of theater and film. He won a Tony Award in 1993 for directing "Angels in America: Millennium Approaches," and another Tony Award in 1996 for his direction of the musical "Bring In 'da Noise/Bring In 'da Funk."
Known For
6 titles
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Tensions rise when trailblazing blues singer Ma Rainey and her band gather at a recording studio in Chicago in 1927.
You're Not You
A drama centered on a classical pianist who has been diagnosed with ALS and the brash college student who becomes her caregiver.
Nights in Rodanthe
A doctor, who is travelling to see his estranged son, sparks with an unhappily married woman at a North Carolina inn.
Rustin
Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
On Broadway
An all-star cast tells the inside story of the Broadway theater, and how it came back from the brink thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inclusion and a sometimes uneasy balance between art and commerce. Legends of the s...