Company in both Los Angeles (2002) and New York, (2003) at the American Airlines Theater, and received a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. Big River was also produced as part of the Encores Series at City Center Theater in New York in 2017. Program Notes: From Playbill of Encores Production of Big River, 2016: "It was a time when everybody played by the rules of Satchel Paige: Don't worry about the things you can't do nothing about, dance like nobody's watching, and love like you can't get hurt." He has also contributed articles to The Atlantic Monthly, Texas Monthly, and The New York Times Sunday Magazine. Teaching Experience—Yale School of Drama; the Michener Center for writers at the University of Texas in Austin; and Brooklyn College. Big River Heat Comanche Cafe Domino Courts Gillette Good Rockin' Tonight and Other Stories The Storm Season Journey to the West Awards 1979 NAACP Freedom Foundation Award - PBS teleplay Denmark Vesey, starring Ned Beatty and Yaphet Kotto, - Winner 1985 *Tony Award for Best Musical - Big River - Winner 1986 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, Gillette - Winner 1988 Jesse Jones Award for Best Book from the Texas Institute of Letters for Good Rockin' Tonight -- Winner 2003 *Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical by the Deaf West Company of Los Angeles, Big River, at the American Airlines Theatre in New York. - Winner Grants: National Endowment Grant, Rockefeller Grant, Guggenheim Grant Honors: The Author has also been included in the exclusive Texas Writer's Collection at Texas State University. Personal life Hauptman is married to Marjorie Erdreich and lives in Brooklyn. His daughter, Sarah, is employed by the State Department and their son, Max, is a captain in the United States Army. "I live in Brooklyn because, for all its faults, I like it better than the town where I was born. My days are calm and predetermined. I watch my children grow up and hope they will do well." -Journey to the West References External links 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights American short story writers Tony Award winners 1942 births Living people People from Wichita Falls, Texas Brooklyn College faculty