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Alfred Fox Uhry (born December 3, 1936) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He has received an Academy Award, two Tony Awards and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for dramatic writing for Driving Miss Daisy. He is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
Driving Miss Daisy is a play by American playwright Alfred Uhry, about the relationship of an elderly Southern Jewish woman, Daisy Werthan, and her African-American chauffeur, Hoke Coleburn, from 1948 to 1973.
- Alfred Uhry
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Nov 5, 2019 · Learn about the true story behind the Pulitzer-Prize-winning play by Alfred Uhry, based on his own grandmother and her chauffeur. See the star-studded cast of this comedy-drama about race relations in America, coming to The Smith Center in Las Vegas.
Driving Miss Daisy, one-act play by Alfred Uhry, produced and published in 1987. The play won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for drama. It is the story of a friendship that develops over a 25-year period between Daisy Werthan, an elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta, and Hoke Coleburn, the African.
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Alfred Uhry had already been writing for musical theater for twenty-five years when his first nonmusical play Driving Miss Daisy became a surprise smash hit. Originally slated to run for five weeks at a small theater in New York City, demand for tickets was so high that it moved to a larger theater where it ran for about three years.
Alfred Uhry was born on December 12, 1936 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Mystic Pizza (1988) and Broadway on Showtime (1979).
