John Guare's plays include Muzeeka (Obie Award), Cop-Out, The House of Blue Leaves, (4 Tony Awards), Two Gentlemen of Verona, Moon Over Miami, Six Degrees of Separation (Obie Award, The New York Drama Critics Circle Award, London's Olivier Award for Best Play), and Four Baboons Adoring the Sun, (4 Tony Award nominations).

Mr. Guare received the Award of Merit from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his plays The House of Blue Leaves, Rich and Famous, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, Landscape of the Body and Bosoms and Neglect. Mr. Guare's series of plays on nineteenth-century America, Gardenia, Lydie Breeze, and Women and Water, has been performed in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington D.C., London and Australia. Six Degrees of Separation was made into a film in 1993 and featured Will Smith, Stockard Channing, and Donald Sutherland.

Mr. Guare was a founding member in 1965 of the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center and Resident Playwright at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1976. He is a council member of the Dramatists Guild, co-editor of The Lincoln Center New Theater Review and co-produces the New Plays Reading Room Series at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts. In 1989, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters elected him a member. He was elected to the Theatre Hall of Fame in 1993. He also wrote the book for the Tony Award Winning Broadway musical The Sweet Smell of Success. He lives in New York City.

(Biography courtesy of Signature Theatre Company, New York)