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Ron
Nyswaner is a screenwriter, playwright, activist and now, with the
publication of BLUE DAYS, BLACK NIGHTS, an author. He wrote the screenplay for SOLDIER'S GIRL which tells the
true story of the murder of Pfc. Barry Winchell.
The film had its world premiere at the 2003 Sundance Film
Festival, received the Peabody Award, three Golden Globe nominations, an
Emmy nomination, a Television Critics Association nomination, a Gotham
Award, and was named by the American Film Institute as one of the ten
outstanding television events of the year.
He wrote the screenplay for PHILADELPHIA, the first major studio
film to confront AIDS and homophobia, which won two Academy Awards and
garnered for Nyswaner nominations for the Golden Globe, Writers' Guild,
BAFTA and Academy Awards. He
wrote the screenplay for SMITHEREENS which premiered in main competition
at the Cannes Film Festival. He
wrote the screenplays for MRS. SOFFEL, LOVE HURTS, GROSS ANATOMY
(co-author) and wrote and directed THE PRINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
He is a co-producer of STAR MAPS, which premiered at the 1998
Sundance Film Festival. Nyswaner's
stage play, OBLIVION POSTPONED, received regional and off-Broadway
productions. And his first book, BLUE DAYS, BLACK NIGHTS, will be
published by Advocate Books in October, 2004.
He is a founding member of the Actors & Writers Theater
Company in upstate New York, serves on the board of the Woodstock Film
Festival and as an advisor for the Sundance Institute.
He has received numerous awards -- including the Ryan White Youth
Service Award -- for his activism on behalf of people with HIV/AIDS.
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Dion Ogust.
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