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Tarell Alvin McCraney
Tarell Alvin McCraney is an American playwright nominated in the Best Adapted Screenplay category thanks to providing the story to Moonlight. Inspiration for the influential film came from McCraney's unpublished drama school project in 2003, a play titled In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue.
Coincidentally, McCraney and Jenkins lived blocks away from each other when growing up in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami. "I am a believer of intersection. I do believe that there’s something that magnetizes us to each other. It’s interesting, living that close in proximity and never knowing each other until almost 30-some-odd years later," McCraney told Vulture. "Clearly we were seeing the same moon, and yet we just weren't looking at each other."
McCraney was recently named the new chairman of the playwriting department at the Yale School of Drama.
Tarell Alvin McCraney is an American playwright nominated in the Best Adapted Screenplay category thanks to providing the story to Moonlight. Inspiration for the influential film came from McCraney's unpublished drama school project in 2003, a play titled In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue.
Coincidentally, McCraney and Jenkins lived blocks away from each other when growing up in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami. "I am a believer of intersection. I do believe that there’s something that magnetizes us to each other. It’s interesting, living that close in proximity and never knowing each other until almost 30-some-odd years later," McCraney told Vulture. "Clearly we were seeing the same moon, and yet we just weren't looking at each other."
McCraney was recently named the new chairman of the playwriting department at the Yale School of Drama.
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