Ralph Pape

Ralph Pape is an American playwright. Plays: Say Goodnight Gracie, Girls We Have Known, Warm and Tender Love, Soap Opera, Beyond Your Command, and Hearts Beating Faster. He adapted Say Goodnight Gracie for television and recieved an Emmy Award. Girls We Have Known was a runner-up in the Actor's Theatre of Louisville's Great American Play contest. In 2007, he was named one of the top 50 American playwrights to watch.

• “A very funny play with an undertone of dismay and bewilderment.”

  — New Yorker

• “Ralph Pape is an acute observer of those who are trying to keep up cheerful demeanor in the face of despair.”

  — The Hollywood Reporter