Kenneth Lonergan

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Kenneth Lonergan born October 16 1962 is a playwright screenwriter and director born in the Bronx New York City New York He began writing in high school at the Walden School a defunct private school in Manhattan with a strong drama program His first play The Rennings Children was chosen for the Young Playwrights Festival in 1982 while he was still an undergraduate He would go on to graduate from the NYU Playwriting Program After he graduated he worked as a speechwriter for the Environmental Protection Agency He also wrote industrial shows for clients such as Weight Watchers and Fujifilm His first success came with the play This is Our Youth 1996 and was followed by The Waverley Gallery 1999 based on his grandmothers Greenwich Village Gallery and later Lobby Hero 2002 Lonergans film career began with his screenplay for the gangland comedy Analyze This 1999 He was subsequently offered a job writing The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle 2000 Lonergan directed his next screenplay for You Can Count on Me 2000 which was executive produced by Martin Scorsese and went on to contribute to the screenplay for Gangs of New York 2002 In 2005 filming took place for his second film as writerdirector Margaret 2011 starring Anna Paquin Matt Damon Matthew Broderick and his wife J SmithCameron The film spent over five years in postproduction resulting in multiple legal disputes Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Lonergan licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia