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Phyllis Nagy
At the72nd Berlin International Film Festival, 2022
Born	(1962-11-07)November 7, 1962 (age 63) New York City, U.S.
Occupations	Film director, theater director, screenwriter, playwright
Years active	1992–present

Phyllis Nagy (/nɑːʒ/NAHZH;^[1] born November 7, 1962) is an Americantheatre and film director, screenwriter and playwright. In 2006, Nagy was nominated for thePrimetime Emmy Award forwriting anddirectingMrs. Harris (2005), her screen debut. In 2016, Nagy received anAcademy Award nomination, among numerous otheraccolades, forBest Adapted Screenplay for the 2015 filmCarol.

Nagy was born in New York City and moved to London in 1992, where her playwriting career began in earnest at theRoyal Court Theatre under the artistic direction ofStephen Daldry for whom she served as the Royal Court's writer-in-residence in the mid-1990s.^[2]

Nagy's plays have been performed in many countries. They includeWeldon Rising, first produced by theRoyal Court Theatre in association with theLiverpool Playhouse in 1992;Butterfly Kiss , first produced by theAlmeida Theatre Company in 1994 (not to be confused with the Michael Winterbottom film of the same nameButterfly Kiss);The Scarlet Letter, an adaptation ofNathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel, commissioned and first produced by theDenver Centre Theatre in 1994;Trip's Cinch, commissioned and first produced by theActors Theatre of Louisville in 1994 and received its UK premiere in 2002;The Strip, commissioned and first produced by the Royal Court Theatre in 1995; andDisappeared, a joint winner of both the 1992 Mobil International Playwriting Prize and the 1995Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.Disappeared premiered at the Royal Court in 1995 in a production directed by the author which subsequently toured the UK before a London run at the Royal Court Theatre. The play went on to win theWriters' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Regional Play and theEileen Anderson/Central Television Award for Best Play. In February 1999,Disappeared was presented at theSteppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago by RoadWorks Productions.

Nagy's most recent plays areNever Land, which premiered at theRoyal Court Theatre in January 1998, in a co-production withThe Foundry; andThe Talented Mr. Ripley, adapted from the novel byPatricia Highsmith which premiered at theWatford Palace Theatre, in October 1998, and later produced by theMelbourne Theatre Company in February 1999. Her version ofAnton Chekhov'sThe Seagull was produced atChichester Festival Theatre in the summer of 2003. In 2005, Nagy directed a production ofThe Scarlet Letter at the same venue.

Nagy wrote the screenplay forCarol, an adaption of the 1952Patricia Highsmith novelThe Price of Salt.^[3] Nagy, who was a friend of Highsmith, wrote the first draft of the script in 1997.^[3][4][5] Nagy's second film as a director,Call Jane, debuted at2022 Sundance Film Festival.^[6]

Nagy is a lesbian. Speaking to HuffPost in 2015, she said: "I'm an out lesbian, I always have been and I think by leading my life openly as possible and trying to inspire other people to do that and help other people do that, I don't know if there could be a bigger commitment than that, to inspire people not to hide, let's say."^[7] Nagy has been critical about the film industry's portrayal of lesbians. In aGuardian interview, Nagy commented, “If we’re talking specifically about gay women, about who they’re allowed to be, who gets to make the movies, it’s generally men.”^[8]

Nagy was nominated forPrimetime Emmy Awards forwriting anddirectingMrs. Harris (2006), her screen debut. The film starredBen Kingsley andAnnette Bening (both also Emmy-nominated), and garnered a total of12 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, threeGolden Globe Award nominations, and threeScreen Actors Guild Award nominations.^{[citation needed]} Nagy won a number of awards for her writing and directing ofMrs. Harris, including aPEN Center USA West Award for her teleplay and aGracie Allen Award for Outstanding Director. In 2015, Nagy receivedmany awards and nominations for her work onCarol, including aNew York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay,^[9] and nominated for theAcademy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay,Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay, andWriters Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.^[10][11][12]

In 2016, theBritish Film Institute namedCarol the bestLGBT film of all time, as voted by over 100 film experts, including critics, filmmakers, curators, academics, and programmers, in a poll encompassing over 80 years of cinema.^[13][14]

• Phyllis Nagy atIMDb
• Aston, E. (2002)Feminist Views on the English Stage – Cambridge University PressISBN 978-0-521-80003-7

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