Author(s): Reza Yasmina

Performing Arts Drama Plays

The Tony Award-winning play that focuses on the meaning of art (in the form of a solid white painting) as well as the meaning of friendship, to both the man who bought the painting and the two friends who come to see it." Yasmina Reza, born in Paris in 1959, is an acclaimed playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. Her first play, "Conversations Apres un Enterrement" (Conversations After a Burial) won her the 1987 Moliere Award for Best Author along with a Johnson Foundation Award and a SACD New Talent Award. Her other works for the theater include" Art" and "The Unexpected Man," among others. She lives in Paris.