Dec 26, 2018
Douglas Carter Beane is an American playwright and screenwriter who trained as an actor, graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts' New York campus in 1980. His works include the screenplay of To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, and several plays including The Country Club, As Bees in Honey Drown, The Nance, starring Nathan Lane, and The Little Dog Laughed.
Beane wrote the book for Xanadu, a stage musical adaptation of the 1980 film of the same name, He worked with Bill and Cheri Steinkellner on the book for Sister Act in 2011. Beane wrote the book for the musical Lysistrata Jones and rewrote the book for a new adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella which opened on Broadway in 2013.
Douglas and his husband Lewis Flinn are frequent collaborators. Two upcoming shows with lots of excitement attached are their theatre adaptation of Doug’s screenplay To Wong Foo and Hood The Robin Hood Musical Adventure which won outstanding new play or musical from the Dallas-Fort Worth Critics Forum.
Douglas Carter Beane has received several nominations and wins from the Drama Desk awards, The Outer Critics Circle, and has received four Tony nominations for best book of a musical and a Tony nomination for his play The Little Dog Laughed.