Douglas Carter Beane

Douglas Carter Beane
Douglas Carter Beane
Born	Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Notable work	Sister Act (2011 musical); Xanadu (2007 musical); The Little Dog Laughed (2006 play); The Country Club (1999 play); To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995 film);

Douglas Carter Beane is an American playwright and screenwriter. He has been nominated for five Tony Awards and won two Drama Desk Awards. His plays are essentially works with sophisticated, "drawing room" humor but just as often farce, particularly his work in musical theater.

His works include the screenplay of To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, and several plays including The Country Club and The Little Dog Laughed, which was nominated for the 2007 Tony Award for Best Play and As Bees in Honey Drown, which ran at New York's Lucille Lortel Theatre in 1997.