Three Days of Rain: Meet the Playwright

Richard Greenberg was born in New York in 1958. He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton with a bachelor’s degree where he studied creative writing under Joyce Carol Oates. He attended Harvard for graduate work in English and American Literature but dropped out when he was accepted to the Yale School of Drama’s prestigious playwrighting program in 1985. In 1998 his play Three Days of Rain was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. It was commissioned by the South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, California and premiered there in 1997. It then transferred to New York for its Off-Broadway premiere in 1998 with Patricia Clarkson, Bradley Whitford, and John Slattery. It won the 1998 Obie Award for Directing and was the 1998 Drama Critic’s Circle Award Runner-Up. Mr. Greenberg is probably best known for his play, Take Me Out, because it won the 2003 Tony award for Best Play and was nominated for the 2003 Pulitzer Award for Drama.