Terrence McNally is one of the leading American dramatists writing today.  In addition to four Tony Awards, he has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller grant, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Hull-Warriner Award, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  He has been a member of the Dramatists Guild since 1970 and has served as its Vice President since 1981.  Mr. McNally achieved early critical success with works including Next, The Ritz, and Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, which was adapted for the screen starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino.  In 1990, he won an Emmy Award for Best Writing in a Miniseries or Special for Andre’s Mother, a drama about a woman trying to cope with the death of her son from AIDS.  A year later he returned to the stage with another AIDS-related play, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, a study of the irrational fears many people harbored toward homosexuals and people with the disease.  Subsequent successes have included Kiss of the Spider Woman, Ragtime, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Master Class, Corpus Christi, and most recently Deuce.