Douglas Carter Beane

Douglas Carter Beane is an American playwright and screenwriter.

His works include the screenplay of To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, and several plays including The Country Club and The Little Dog Laughed, which was nominated for the 2007 Tony Award for Best Play and As Bees in Honey Drown, which ran at New York's Lucille Lortel Theatre in 1997. Beane often writes works with sophisticated, "drawing room" humor.

Early life
Beane was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania.

Career
Beane wrote the book for Xanadu, a stage musical adaptation of the 1980 film of the same name, adding new plot twists and humor parodying the original movie. The musical was workshopped in 2006 and early 2007 with director Christopher Ashley and actors Jane Krakowski, Tony Roberts, and Cheyenne Jackson. The musical opened on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre on July 10, 2007. Kerry Butler and Cheyenne Jackson were the Broadway leads. Beane won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical.

In 2011, Beane was hired to "doctor" the book for the musical Sister Act alongside Bill and Cheri Steinkellner for which he was nominated for a Tony Award, Best Book of a Musical.

Beane wrote the book for the musical Lysistrata Jones and rewrote the book for a new adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella which opened on Broadway in 2013. Also opening in 2013 was his new play for Lincoln Center, The Nance, starring Nathan Lane and directed by Jack O'Brien. Beane has revised the libretto for the Metropolitan Opera's new production of the operetta Die Fledermaus which was performed in 2013- 2014.

Beane is the artistic director of the Drama Dept. Theater Company in New York.

Beane trained as an actor, graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts New York campus in 1980. He is very involved with his alma mater, workshopping new pieces with the students.

Personal life
Beane is married to his frequent collaborator, composer Lewis Flinn, and the two are parents to two adopted children, Cooper and Gabrielle.

Broadway

 * 2013 The Nance
 * 2013 Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
 * 2011 Lysistrata Jones
 * 2011 Sister Act
 * 2007 Xanadu
 * 2006 The Little Dog Laughed

Off-Broadway

 * 2019 The Big Time - Book by Beane, Music and Lyrics by Douglas J. Cohen
 * 2015 Shows for Days
 * 2010 Mr. & Mrs. Fitch
 * 2006 The Little Dog Laughed
 * 2001 Music from a Sparkling Planet
 * 1999 The Country Club
 * 1997 As Bees In Honey Drown
 * 1996 Advice From a Caterpillar

Film

 * 1995 To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar