Douglas McGrath Cause of Death

American screenwriter, film director and actor, Douglas McGrath has died. He died on Thursday, November 3, 2022, at his office in Manhattan. He was 64 years old.

His death was announced by the show’s producers, Daryl Roth, Tom Werner and John Lithgow. Their representative said the cause was a heart attack.

McGrath has been performing Off-Broadway in his solo autobiography show, Everything’s Fine directed by John Lithgow at the Daryl Roth Theatre, a run which was cut short by his death.

McGrath received a Tony Award nomination for Best Book of a Musical for the Broadway musical Beautiful: The Carole King Musical in 2014. He wrote political commentary such as “The Flapjack File”, a column for The New Republic, as well as articles for The New Yorker, The New York Times and Vanity Fair.