Drama Desk Award Outstanding Play "Proof" 2001
John Gassner Playwriting Award "Proof" 2001
Lucille Lortel Award Outstanding Play "Proof" 2001
Pulitzer Prize in Drama "Proof" 2001
Tony Best Play "Proof" 2001
Kesselring Prize "Proof" 2000
New York Drama Critics Circle Award Best American Play "Proof" 2000 - 2001
2006 Penned the screenplay for "The Lake House" a remake of Korean pic "Il Mare"
2005 Adapted his Pulitzer Prize winning drama, "Proof" for the big screen starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Anthony Hopkins
2000 Had major success with second play, "Proof", a drama about the daughter of a mathemetician haunted by her father's illness; first produced Off-Broadway; later moved to Broadway
2000 Hired to pen first screenplay, an adaptation of the novel "Triage"
1998 Moved to London to be with a girlfriend; over course of summer, wrote first draft of "Proof"
1998 Upon return to Manhattan, submitted "Proof" to MTC; in spring 1999, MTC held reading with Mary-Louise Parker in lead role
1997 Had first NYC production with "Skyscraper", produced at the Manhattan Theater Club (MTC)
1991 Won fellowship sponsored by Amblin Entertainment; went to L.A. and learned how to write film scripts; after fellowship ended moved to NYC because "I decided that, if I were going to go broke trying to
Raised in Columbus, Ohio and in Arkansas
While attending the University of Chicago, began peforming with and writing for an improvisational comedy troupe
