There are also letters of recommendation written about Busch by Michael Feingold, Daryl Hine, Christopher Isherwood, and Charles Ludlam. Some of those who corresponded with Busch include Julie Andrews, Kathie Lee Gifford, Angela Lansbury, Paul Newman, Joan Rivers, and Stephen Sondheim. Included are letters written by individuals with whom Busch collaborated, as well as friends, colleagues, and fans of his work. The correspondence dates from 1979 to 2012 and is mostly incoming communications. Items are grouped together by format into the following categories: Correspondence Theatre Screenplays Television Scripts Cabaret Writing and Promotional Materials. The collection encompasses the entirety of Busch's creative output, which also includes unpublished and unreleased works. The Charles Busch papers date from 1967 to 2015 (bulk dates 1984-2014) and consist of materials chronicling Busch's career as a writer and performer in theatre and film. His other theatre works include The Third Story (2008), The Divine Sister (2010), Olive and the Bitter Herbs (2011), Judith of Bethulia (2012), Stars of David (2012), Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Musical Mystery (2013), and The Tribute Artist (2014).īusch lives in New York City, where, as of 2015, he is writing his memoir and continues to perform in cabaret acts. Busch returned to theatre in 2007 with Our Leading Lady and a revived off-Broadway production of Die! Mommie Die!. The film was awarded an honorable mention at the Tribeca Film Festival. This was followed by Nina, a comic monologue commissioned by the Lucille Lortel Awards in 2005, and A Very Serious Person(2006), which was Busch's directorial film debut. That same year he received a Drama Desk Award for career achievement as both a playwright and actor, was honored with a star on the Playwrights Walk outside the Lucille Lortel Theatre, and won the best performance award at the Sundance Film Festival for the film adaptation of Die! Mommie! Die! The Rosie O'Donnell produced, Taboo, debuted on Broadway in 2003, and featured music and lyrics by Boy George. Busch's next play, Shanghai Moon (1999), earned him a Lucille Lortel best actor nomination in 2003. The Tale of the Allergist's Wife received a Tony nomination for best play in 2001, and actresses Linda Lavin and Michelle Lee both received Tony nominations for their performances in the production. Gassner Award for Outstanding Playwriting. The play ran from 2000 to 2002, and Busch was awarded the Outer Circle Critics John L. In 1999, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife premiered at Manhattan Theatre Club before making its Broadway debut at the Barrymore Theatre in 2000. Busch continued to write and appear in Theatre productions, which include You Should Be So Lucky (1994), Swingtime Canteen (1995), Flipping my Wig (1996), The Green Heart (1997), Queen Amarantha (1997), House of Flowers (1998), and Die! Mommy! Die! (1999). In 1993, Busch published an autobiographical novel, Whores of Lost Atlantis, which is based on his experiences with Theatre-in-Limbo. Pyscho Beach Party ran for a year off-Broadway and was subsequently adapted into a film screenplay by Busch for the Robert Lee King directed film, which was released in 2000. These productions included, Theodora She-Bitch of Byzantium (1984), Times Square Angel (1984), ), Gidget Goes Psychotic (1986), Pardon my Inquisition (1986), Psycho Beach Party (1987), The Lady in Question (1989), and Red Scare on Sunset (1991). Busch continued to write and perform with a group of collaborators known as Theatre-in-Limbo until 1991. The show was picked up by the Provincetown Playhouse in 1985, where it ran for five years. His break came with the off-off Broadway show Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, which premiered at the Limbo Lounge in the East Village in 1984. Busch made his New York City debut in 1982 with Before Our Mother's Eyes, which was performed at Theater for the New City. As a college student Busch penned his first full length play, Out-Takes of a "B" Movie (1975), and made his inaugural appearance in a female role with his 1976 one-act play, Sister Act. He attended the High School of Music and Art in New York City, and then Northwestern University, where he earned a Bachelor's degree in drama in 1976. He began his theatrical career at an early age, writing and performing his first play at Camp Lexington for the Performing Arts when he was twelve years old. Charles Busch (1954- ) is a playwright, screenwriter, novelist, actor, and drag performer.
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