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From never being on a TV staff, to becoming the creator and showrunner of House of Cards, Netflixapos;s original foray into dramatic television and the corrupted world of politics? this weekapos;s interview with screenwriter, painter, and playwright Beau Willimon is sure to inspire you! Beau Willimon is a screenwriter, playwright, producer and most recently, an executive producer, showrunner and creator of Netflix?s original series ?House of Cards,? a wicked one-hour drama, from
Media Rights Capital, that slithers behind the curtain of power, sex, ambition, love, greed and corruption in modern
Washington D.C. His play ?
Farragut North,? became the basis for the motion picture screenplay ?
Ides of March,? which he co-wrote with
George Clooney and
Grant Heslov. ?Ides of March? earned Willimon
Academy Award?,
Golden Globe and
BAFTA nominations for
Best Adapted Screenplay, and it won
The Australian Academy of
Cinema and
Television Award for
Best Screenplay. Other plays include ?Lower
Ninth? (
Flea Theater, 2008;
UK premiere, Donmar Warehouse,
2010), and ?
Spirit Control? (
Manhattan Theatre Club, 2010). Subsequent productions of his plays have been mounted across the
U.S. and overseas. Willimon was a recipient of the
Lila Acheson Wallace Juilliard Playwriting Fellowship, named 2008 Playwright-in-Residence at the
Donmar Warehouse, and he is a two-time winner of the
Lincoln Center Le
Comte du Nouy Award.
Current theater commissions include works for the
National Theatre of Great Britain,
South Coast Rep, and the Flea Theater. His most recent play, ?
The Parisian Woman,? premieres at
South Coast Repertory in the spring and will star
Dana Delany,
Steven Culp,
Linda Gehringer and
Rebecca Mozo. The play was inspired by
Henri Becque?s ?
La Parisienne.?
Recently Willimon co-founded
Westward Productions, a film and television production company, with co-founder
Jordan Tappis. Among Westward
Production?s current projects is the forthcoming ?
Wally and
Andre Shoot Ibsen? ? a film adaption of Ibsen?s play ?
Master Builder? developed by
Wallace Shawn and
Andre Gregory, directed by
Jonathan Demme. Willimon is an
Executive Producer on the film. Other projects in development include a documentary about adventure traveler
Karl Bushby?s quest to circumnavigate the globe on foot over the course of two decades, and a documentary about
Westerly Windina, a transgender
Australian woman formerly known as legendary pro-surfer
Peter Drouyn. In addition to his career as a writer and producer, Willimon served on a number of political campaigns, including
Chuck Schumer?s
1998 senate race,
Bill Bradley?s
2000 presidential race,
Hillary Clinton?s 2000 senate race and
Howard Dean?s
2004 presidential race. Willimon graduated with a
B.A. from Columbia University in
1999 and an
M.F.A. in Playwriting from Columbia University?s
School of the Arts in
2003. A
St. Louis native, he now resides in
Brooklyn, NY. Twitter: @BeauWillimon.
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- published: 23 Jun 2013
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