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Marshall Brickman (born August 25, 1941 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an Academy Award winning screenwriter, best
known for his collaborations with Woody Allen. He is also known for being an
excellent banjo player together with Eric Weissberg back in the 1960s.
Biography
After attending the University of
Wisconsin–Madison, he became a member of Folk act The Tarriers in 1962, recruited by former
classmate Eric
Weissberg. Upon the disbanding of The Tarriers in 1965,
Brickman joined The New
Journeymen with John Phillips and Michelle
Phillips who later had success with The Mamas & the Papas. He
left The New Journeymen in order to pursue a career as a writer,
initially writing for television in the 1960s, including Candid Camera,
The
Tonight Show, The Dick Cavett Show. It was
during this time that he met Allen, with whom he would collaborate
on several 1970s film scripts, including Sleeper,
Annie Hall
(which won the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award), and
Manhattan.
Brickman directed several of his own scripts in the 1980s,
including Simon, Lovesick, The Manhattan
Project, and Sister Mary Explains it All, none of
which were commercial successes. He reunited with Allen in 1993 to
write Manhattan Murder
Mystery.
His latest venture is the hit Broadway musical
Jersey
Boys. Along with partner Rick Elice, Mr. Brickman wrote the book.
Recently, Brickman has collaborated with Elice once again, this
time writing the book for the musical The Addams Family.[1]
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