Douglas McGrath was an American screenwriter, film director and actor. He has received various accolades, including nominations for BAFTA Award, Primetime Emmy Awards and many others.
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McGrath started his career as a writer for Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1981. He co-wrote with Woody Allen the film Bullets Over Broadway (1994), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as well as BAFTA and Writers Guild of America Award nominations.
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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.
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