Kenneth Lonergan

Kenneth Lonergan is a Pulitzer- and Academy Award-nominated playwright, screenwriter, and director born in the Bronx, New York City, New York. He began writing in high school, later graduating from the NYU Playwriting Program.

His first success came with the play This is Our Youth, for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. This was followed by Pulitzer-nominated The Waverley Gallery, based on his grandmother's Greenwich Village Gallery, and he Drama Deesk Award-nominated Lobby Hero.

Lonergan's film career began with his screenplay for the gangland comedy Analyze This. He was subsequently offered a job writing The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle.

Lonergan directed his next screenplay for You Can Count on Me, which won the Sundan Grand Jury Prize for Drama and was Nominated for both the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay. Lonergan went on to contribute to the screenplay for Gangs of New York, which was nominated the Academy Award and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay.

Most recently, he wrote and directed the film Margaret starring Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, and Matthew Broderick.