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John Pielmeier (born February 23, 1949) is an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist.
JOHN PIELMEIER began his career as an actor, working at Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Guthrie Theater, Milwaukee Rep, Alaska Rep, Baltimore’s Center Stage, and the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights’ Conference. It was at the O’Neill that his play Agnes of God was first staged.
The Exorcist is a play by John Pielmeier based on the novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty and is part of The Exorcist franchise. The story revolves around a young girl, Regan MacNeil, who is possessed by a demonic spirit. Her mother, Chris, seeks out to the church to perform an exorcism.
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The stage play concerns three main characters: Martha, the psychiatrist; the Mother Superior; and Agnes, the novice. There are no other characters on stage. All three roles are considered demanding for the actors playing them.Martha covers the full gamut of emotion during the play, from nurturer to antagonist, from hard nosed court psychiatrist and...
The play first was staged at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut in 1979. In 1980, it was further developed at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Pielmeier had been an actor at both of these venues and had turned to playwriting; he began writing Agnes of Godin the summer of 1978. The play opened on Broadway on March 30, 1982 ...
The 1985 film adaptation was directed by Norman Jewison, with a script also written by Pielmeier. It garnered three Academy Award nominations: Meg Tilly was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Anne Bancroft for Lead Actress for her performance as Mother Miriam, and Best Score. Anne Pitoniak, who played Miriam Ruth in the 19...
Pielmeier was inspired to write the play after seeing an article in a newspaper about an event that occurred in a convent in Brighton, New York, just outside the city limits of Rochester. Sister Maureen Murphy, a thirty-six-year-old Montessori teacher, was found bleeding in her room by the other sisters of the convent after she did not come down fo...
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John Pielmeier - Playwright, Screenwriter, Novelist, Poet, Actor. "To be born is to be wrecked on an island." -- J. M. Barrie. J.M. Barrie, who is perhaps (along with Thornton Wilder) the most theatrical of English-speaking playwrights, made this observation, and it has more than a purely metaphorical application to my own life.
John Pielmeier began his career as an actor, working at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Guthrie Theater, Milwaukee Rep, Alaska Rep, Baltimore's Center Stage, and the O'Neill National Playwrights' Conference. It was at the O'Neill that his play AGNES OF GOD was first staged.
JOHN PIELMEIER is an actor and writer who began his career with the internationally acclaimed play and movie Agnes of God. Since then he has had three more plays mounted on Broadway and over twenty-five film, television movies and miniseries produced.
