Terrence McNally Death
Terrence passed away on March 24, 2020 at the age of 80 in Sarasota, Florida, USA. Terrence's cause of death was Coronavirus.
When did Terrence McNally die?
March 24, 2020How did Terrence McNally die? What was the cause of death?
CoronavirusHow old was Terrence McNally when died?
80Where did Terrence McNally die? What was the location of death?
Sarasota, Florida, USA
Terrence McNally Birthday and Date of Death
Terrence McNally was born on November 3, 1939 and died on March 24, 2020. Terrence was 80 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: November 3, 1939
Date of Death: March 24, 2020
Age at Death: 80
Terrence McNally - Biography
Terrence McNally (born November 3, 1938) is an American playwright. He received the Tony Award for Best Play for Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class, as well as the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime. His other accolades included an Emmy Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, four Drama Desk Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, two Obie Awards, and three Hull-Warriner Awards.
In his early years in New York City, McNally's interest in theatre brought him to a party where, departing, he shared a cab with Edward Albee, who had recently written The Zoo Story and The Sandbox and was about to become the single most influential playwright in the United States. They functioned as a couple for over four years during which Albee wrote The American Dream and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He was frustrated by Albee's lack of openness about his sexuality. McNally later said: "I became invisible when press was around or at an opening night. I knew it was wrong. It’s so much work to live that way." After his relationship with Albee, McNally entered into a long-term relationship with the actor and director Robert Drivas. Drivas and McNally broke up as a couple in 1976; they remained close friends until Drivas died of AIDS-related complications ten years later.
McNally was partnered to Tom Kirdahy, a Broadway producer and a former civil rights attorney for not-for-profit AIDS organizations, following a civil union ceremony in Vermont on December 20, 2003. They married in Washington, D.C. on April 6, 2010. In celebration of the Supreme Court's decision to legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 states, they renewed their vows at New York City Hall with Mayor Bill de Blasio, Kirdahy's college roommate, officiating on June 26, 2015.
When given his Tony for Lifetime Achievement in June 2019, he began his acceptance speech saying "Lifetime achievement. Not a moment too soon." McNally died in Sarasota, Florida, on March 24, 2020, at the age of 81, from complications of coronavirus disease 2019 during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. He had previously overcome lung cancer in the late 1990s that cost him both portions of his lungs due to the disease, and he was living with COPD at the time of his death.
