John Guare is an American playwright, best known as the author of Broadway’s Six Degrees of Separation, The House of Blue Leaves, Four Baboons Adoring the Sun, and A Free Man of Color (Vivian Beaumont Theatre). His style—which mixes comic invention with an acute sense of the failure of human relations and aspirations—is at once cruel and deeply compassionate. Other Broadway credits include his Drama Desk Award-winning Two Gentlemen of Verona (St. James Theatre), Sophisticated Ladies (Lunt-Fontanne Theatre), and Sweet Smell of Success and Kiss Me, Kate (Martin Beck Theatre).

Off-Broadway works include Desire (59E59 Theater), 3 Kinds of Exile (Linda Gross Theatre), Landscape of the Body and A Few Stout Individuals (Peter Norton Space), and Chaucer in Rome (Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater).

His screenplay for Louis Malle’s film, Atlantic City, won two NFCC Awards and was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.