KENNETH LONERGAN's productions in New York include The Starry Messenger (New Group), Lobby Hero (Playwrights Horizons, John Houseman Theatre, Drama Desk Best Play Nominee, Outer Critics Circle Best Play and John Gassner Playwriting Nominee, included in the 2000-2001 Best Plays Annual), The Waverly Gallery (Williamstown Theatre Festival, Promenade; 2001 Pulitzer Prize finalist), and This Is Our Youth (Drama Desk Best Play Nominee). Lobby Hero (Olivier Award Nominee for Best Play) and This Is Our Youth have also received productions on London’s West End. He co-wrote the film Gangs of New York which garnered a WGA and Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. His film You Can Count on Me, which he wrote and directed, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay, won the Sundance 2000 Grand Jury Prize and The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, the NY Film Critics Circle, LA Films Critics Circle, Writers Guild of America and National Board of Review Awards for Best Screenplay of 2001, the AFI Awards for Best Film and Best New Writer, as well as the Sutherland Trophy at the London Film Festival. The film Margaret, which he wrote and directed, is being released this fall. He is a member of Naked Angels. He is married to actress J. Smith-Cameron. They have one daughter, Nelly Sharpe Lonergan. (As of 2011)

Broadway: Cry-Baby, revivals of The Constant Wife, Reckless. New York premieres include The Long Christmas Ride Home, Lobby Hero, How I Learned to Drive, This Is Our Youth, As Bees in Honey Drown, The Dying Gaul, 2.5 Minute Ride, The Good Times Are Killing Me. Encores!: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Cole Porter's Out of This World. Regional: Sondheim Celebration at Kennedy Center (A Little Night Music); the new musical Martystarring John C. Reilly; Guthrie, Mark Taper Forum, Steppenwolf, Seattle Rep, Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, Yale Rep, Huntington and Berkeley Rep. Also: London's Donmar Warehouse; Dublin's Gate Theatre; vice president, Executive Board of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers; associate artist, Roundabout Theatre. (As of December 2008)