Wallace Shawn VHS - Lannan Literary Videos, 80 Author:Wallace Shawn Wallace Shawn was born in 1943 in New York City and educated at Harvard and Oxford universities. Mr. Shawn wrote The Fever in 1990 and has performed it throughout Europe and America. It is a provocative and incisive work that portrays the awakening political consciousness of a privileged man. It received an Obie for Best New Play in 1990-1991. H... more »is other plays include Our Late Night, which also won an Obie, A Thought in Three Parts, Marie and Bruce, Aunt Dan and Lemon, and The Designated Mourner. In addition to his work as a playwright, Mr. Shawn has appeared in several films, including Manhattan, Radio Days, Shadows and Fog, Vanya on 42nd Street, and The Princess Bride. He also wrote and starred in the film My Dinner with André, with André Gregory. Mr. Shawn, who lives in New York City, read The Fever on December 15, 1999.« less