Santa Madelena did more than merely provide a comfortable environment for my ruminative scribblings. (Beatrice’s stories were always unabashedly the best her circle or friends and broad range of experience could fill volumes.) A communal dinner would follow, and last well into the night, as together we recounted our authorial victories and our sorrows, inventoried our work for the day, and shared anecdotes about our respective lives. My afternoons were usually devoted to reading replenishing the well, as it were, with the works of my betters. At lunchtime, I would gather in the company of my fellow authors and the occasional houseguest, for stimulating conversation and scrumptious pasta. In the mornings-when my mind was fresh-I would write, exploring a possible play about the sculptor Michelangelo. I had the rare privilege of working in Gregor von Rezzori’s old studio in a medieval tower overlooking the grounds. Beatrice von Rezzori has single-handedly constructed an ideal environment for writer’s of every stripe on the lush grounds of her villa in Tuscany, she offers a sanctuary from the middling concerns of every day life, supplanting them with ample room for quiet contemplation, aesthetic invention, and the sudden, always unexpected intrusion of the Muse. My time at Santa Madelena was profoundly special. Bardley Fellowship at Yale and the Alfred Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. He has held the Charles MacArthur Fellowship at the Eugene O’ Neill Theater Centre, the William L.
His newest play I Am My Own Wife received widespread critical acclaim and opened on Broadway in 2003 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 2004. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards. Doug Wright won the 2000 Obie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting for his play Quills, and his screenplay adaptation was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
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