Christopher Durang was natural within January Two, 1949, in Montclair, New Jersey. Enlightened at Harvard College and the Yale School of Drama, he has had plays performed countrywide, including in Broadway and Off-Broadway, including ''Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For We; Beyond Therapy; Tot By owning A Bathwater; A Nature & Purpose of the Universe; Titanic; A History of the Our contries Film; The Marriage of Bette and Raspberry; Laughing Untamed; 'Dentity Crisis; A Actor's Nightmare; A Vietnamization of Future Jersey; & Betty's Summer Vacation. He received Obie Awards for Sister Mary Ignatius and A Marriage of Bette & Hiss, standard the Tony award nomination for "Best Book of a Musical" for The History of the U.s. Film. He has besides written A total of screenplays including Beyond Therapy; A Nun That Shot Liberty Valence; A Home of Married man (which he co-authored by using Wendy Wasserstein); & The Risky venture of Lola. He has, yet, wholly denounced a Robert Altman movie Beyond Therapy'' (based on Durang's stage play), calling it "horrific" & accusatory Altman of entirely rewriting a script "so that all psychology is thrown out the window, and the characters dash around acting 'crazy' but with literally no behavioral logic underneath."

Durang has too performed as an actor for two stage & screen. He 1st come to prominence within his off-broadway satiric view "Das Lusitania Songspiel," which he performed by using friend & fellow Yalie Sigourney Weaver.

Durang has been awarded many fellowships & high profile grants including the Guggenheim, a Rockefeller, a CBS Playwriting Fellowship, a Lecompte du Nouy Foundation Grant, & a Kenyon Festival Theatre Playwriting Prize. He occurs as member of the influential Dramatists Guild Council, and is co-chair of the playwriting program at Juilliard.