a theater in his honor in the new Signature Center, which opened in 2012. On his birthday September 21, 2012, the University of North Carolina at its Appalachian State University campus in Boone, NC opened his archives for researchers and scholars. Death Romulus Linney died from lung cancer at his home in Germantown, New York on January 15, 2011. Family He was the father of two daughters, Susan Linney and actress Laura Linney. At the time of death, he was married to Laura Callanan, former senior deputy chair of the National Endowment for the Arts and founding partner of Upstart Co-Lab. Works The plays of Romulus Linney include: 2: Goering at Nuremberg Akhmatova Ambrosio Appalachia Sounding April Snow Ave Maria Can Can The Captivity of Pixie Shedman Childe Byron Choir Practice A Christmas Carol Clair de Lune The Death of King Philip Democracy Democracy and Esther El Hermano F.M. Gardens of Eden Gint Gold and Silver Waltz Goodbye Oscar Goodbye, Howard Heathen Valley Holy Ghosts Hrosvitha Juliet Just Folks Klonsky and Schwartz Komachi Lark Laughing Stock A Lesson Before Dying Love Drunk The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks Masterbuilder Johnson Mountain Memory Old Man Joseph and His Family Oscar Over Here Over Martinis, Driving Somewhere Pageant Patronage Pops Precious Memories Sand Mountain Sand Mountain Matchmaking The Seasons, Man's Estate Shotgun Songs of Love The Sorrows of Frederick Southern Comfort Spain Stars Strindberg: Miss Julie and The Ghost Sonata Tennessee Three Poets True Crimes Two Whores Unchanging Love Why the Lord Come to Sand Mountain A Woman Without a Name Wrath Yancey Yankee Doodle References External links 1930 births 2011 deaths Deaths from lung cancer in New York (state) Linney family Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Oberlin College alumni People from Boone, North Carolina People from Nashville, Tennessee Writers from Philadelphia Writers from North Carolina Writers from Tennessee Yale School of Drama alumni MacDowell Colony fellows 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights American opera librettists American male novelists 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights American male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers