Guare, John (1938– )

US dramatist. His stage plays include House of Blue Leaves (1971; winner of both an Obie and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the Best American Play of 1970–71), and Six Degrees of Separation (1990; winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Dramatists Guild Hull–Warriner Award, and an Olivier Best Play Award). He also wrote the screenplays for the television adaptation of The House of Blue Leaves (1987) and the film adaptation of Six Degrees of Separation (1993).

Other works by Guare include Two Gentlemen of Verona (1971; Tony Award for Best Musical), a pop-rock musical adaptation of Shakespeare's play, Rich and Famous (1974), The Landscape of the Body (1977), Bosoms and Neglect (1979), and Four Baboons Adoring the Sun (1992). He wrote the screenplay of Louis Malle's Atlantic City (1980). The 1986 revival of House of Blue Leaves received four Tony Awards.