The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me: Two Plays

by Kramer, Larry

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  Larry Kramer was the co-founder of Gay Men’s Health Crisis and the founder of ACT UP. He is the author of The Normal Heart, which was selected as one of the 100 Greatest Plays of the Twentieth Century by the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain and is the longest-running play in the history of the New York Shakespeare Festival’s Public Theater. He is also the author of The Destiny of Me, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won an Obie and the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play. Kramer’s screenplay adaptation of D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love, a film he also produced, was nominated for an Academy Award. He is a recipient of the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was the first creative artist and the first openly gay person to be honored by a Public Service Award from Common Cause. His other plays include Just Say No and Sissies’ Scrapbook. He is currently at work on a new novel, The American People.