was director Roland Emmerich, who then hired Baitz to write the screenplay for his 2015 film Stonewall, based on the Stonewall riots. In 2019, Baitz generated controversy when he became the first member of the WGA to defy the guild's directive that members fire their talent agents, amid ongoing negotiations with the Association of Talent Agents over the practice of packaging. Baitz defended his decision in a letter to the guild's leaders, stating that his agents at CAA had stuck by him during bad times, including both during, and after the 2007-2008 writers' strike. Awards and recognition Baitz has received a Rockefeller Foundation Award and a Drama Desk Award; he is a Guggenheim Fellow, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for "A Fair Country." In 1991, he won a Humanitas Award for the PBS-TV's "American Playhouse" version of "Three Hotels" which he also directed. Personal life Baitz is Jewish. From 1990 to 2002, Baitz was the romantic partner of actor and director Joe Mantello.Marks, Peters. For Jon Robin Baitz, all politics is verbal" Washington Post, May 3, 2013 Works Stage (selected) The Film Society -- 1988 The Substance of Fire -- 1992, 2014 Three Hotels -- 1993, 1993 Drama Desk Award Outstanding New Play nominee A Fair Country -- 1996 Mizlansky/Zilinsky or Schmucks -- 1998 Hedda Gabler (adaptation) -- 2001 Ten Unknowns -- 2001, 2001 Lucille Lortel Award nominee, Outstanding Play The Paris Letter -- 2005, 2006 Lucille Lortel Award nominee, Outstanding Play Other Desert Cities -- 2011 Vicuña -- 2016 I'll Be Seein' Ya -- 2022 Film and television Three Hotels (American Playhouse) -- PBS, 1991 Fallen Angels -- episode "The Frightening Frammis", Showtime, 1993Staff. "TV Review: ‘The Frightening Frammis’" Variety, September 3, 1993 Last Summer in the Hamptons -- 1995 (actor) One Fine Day -- 1996 (actor) The Substance of Fire -- 1996 People I Know -- 2002 The West Wing -- season 4 episode "The Long Goodbye", 2003 Alias -- episode "In Dreams...", 2005 Brothers & Sisters -- ABC television series, 2006 The Slap -- NBC miniseries, 2014 Stonewall'' -- 2015 See also Dramatic license LGBT culture in New York City List of self-identified LGBTQ New Yorkers References External links Internet Off-Broadway Database, Jon Robin Baitz BOMB Magazine interview with Jon Robin Baitz by Craig Gholson (Winter, 1989) 1961 births Living people Beverly Hills High School alumni 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights American male film actors American