Special Ed

Today is Edward Albee's birthday. He's probably my favorite living dramatist, partly because I wrote a paper on his fascinating play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? when I was a college English major. (Do English majors exist anymore? I think I was one of the last, certainly of the male variety.) I also appeared in a terrible acting class production of The Zoo Story. The picture of Albee at this informative site is by Jerry Speier, a photographer I used to work with occasionally when I was a magazine editor. That's only two degrees of separation . . . There are several audio files of Albee talking about his plays there, including his 2002 Tony Award winner, The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?