JOHNA.McQUIGGAN,ExecutiveProducer/Writer
of the Unity Theatre*Television*FilmCompany,Inc.(a non-profit, tax-exempt corporation), assisted
by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, has been developing three great dramas of the
American theatre to be produced as feature films and eventually shown on
network television as a repertory series. He has recently completed two screenplays:
Time and Madness and In
Your Dreams, which are being developed as feature films.In 1999 McQuiggan served as Executive
Producer of the documentary Project Discovery: The First Film School in Cyberspace that had its world premiere on BRAVO and was later
shown on PBS Stations. In 1993, he
co-produced the BBC and PBS film version of Simon Gray's play The Common
Pursuit for Great
Performances. Prior to this, he
produced the New York production which received the Outer Critics' Circle
Award and the Lucille Lortel
Award for the Outstanding Off-Broadway Production of the 1986-87 season.This was followed by his London production at the West End's
Phoenix Theatrewhere it was
nominated for an Olivier Award (London's
Tony) as the Best Comedy of
1988. In 1985, he won the Outer Critics' Circle Award and two Obie Awards for Best Off-Broadway Production for Larry
Shue's The Foreignerwhich ran for over two years.In 1983, he produced Quartermaine's
Terms by Simon Gray which
garnered eight Obie Awards and
was named one of the Ten Best Plays of 1983 by over a dozen major publications.In 1960's, in tandem with Ellis Rabb and Rosemary
Harris, he was a founder and later Producing Director of the famed APA
Repertory Company at the Lyceum
Theatre on Broadway.From 1964 to
1968, he was the Founder-Producer of the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre and established the company as a prominent force
in the regional theatre movement.In the 1970's, Mr. McQuiggan served as Director of Development for the
Performing Arts Division of the Smithsonian Institution and in 1984, he was selected by A. Bartlett
Giamatti, the late president of Yale University, as one of five professionals to serve on the
University Council Committee of the Drama School for five years.