Jerome Lawrence(1915-2004)
- Writer
- Production Department
- Script and Continuity Department
Jerome Lawrence is best known for the plays "Auntie Mame," "Inherit the
Wind," and "First Monday in October" which he co-wrote with Robert E.
Lee. In all, they collaborated on 39 works over their 50 year
partnership. A theatre archive is named for them at Ohio State
University, where Lawrence graduated. He worked for several small Ohio
newspapers as a reporter and editor before moving into radio as a
writer for CBS. He taught playwriting at the University of Southern
California's Master of Professional Writing Program. The school
recently named its one-act-play festival in his honor. Even though his
works are still produced all over the world, Lawrence's lone Tony Award
nomination was for Best Musical, for "Mame" (book).
