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 Theatre where 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 Foreigner  which 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.



John A. McQuiggan Janet Neipris Daniel Rosenbloom Beth Voils