3/3 Declared 'Paul Rudnick Day' In Boston

The Honorable Thomas M. Menino has declared tomorrow Tuesday, March 3, 2009 "Paul Rudnick Day" in the City of Boston.
An award-winning author, playwright, and screenwriter, Rudnick will be in town to receive the Founder's Award from SpeakEasy Stage Company at its Annual Benefit to be held from 6-9pm at the Hyatt Regency Boston Hotel.

The Mayor's proclamation acknowledges the tremendous contribution that Mr. Rudnick has made in the entertainment industry throughout his illustrious career and credits Rudnick with keeping "audiences laughing for years, especially SpeakEasy's audiences" with the Boston premieres of his plays Jeffrey, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, and mot recently, The New Century.

"I am proud that the City of Boston has chosen to honor Mr. Rudnick in this way," said SpeakEasy Producing Artistic Director Paul Daigneault. "Mr. Rudnick has earned a special place in SpeakEasy history. Through his work, he has provided us with some of our greatest successes and thus has contributed immeasurably to SpeakEasy's considerable growth over the past eighteen years."

Paul Rudnick's other plays include I Hate Hamlet, Valhalla, Regrets Only and Jeffrey, for which he won an Obie, an Outer Critics Circle Award and the John Gassner Playwrighting Award. His novels are Social Disease and I'll Take It, both published by Knopf. His articles and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Vogue, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times. He is rumored to be quite close to Premiere magazine's film critic, Libby Gelman-Waxner, whose collected columns have been published under the title If You Ask Me. His screenplays include Addams Family Values, In & Out and the screen adaptation of Jeffrey.

SpeakEasy will also honor local director Scott Edmiston at this event.
SpeakEasy Stage is a proud resident theater company at The Boston Center for the Arts (BCA), the nonprofit performing and visual arts center whose mission is to support working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new work; to develop new audiences; and to connect the arts to a broad public. For more information, visit www.bcaonline.org.