He grew up in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan and graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School. He had one brother, Danny Simon, eight years his senior. Marvin Neil Simon was born in the Bronx, New York, on July 4, 1927, to Irving Simon, a salesman in the garment district, and Mamie Levy Simon, a saleslady at Gimbel’s department store. His plays have been translated into dozens of languages and are produced around the world. The directors include Mike Nichols, Gene Saks, Bob Fosse, Robert Moore, Joe Mantello, Jerry Zaks, Herbert Ross, John Rando, and Michael Bennett.ĭuring his long-running career, it was not unusual for Simon to have two Broadway shows running concurrently, sometimes three, and once, in 1966, he had four ( Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Sweet Charity and The Star Spangled Girl). Scott, Maureen Stapleton, Christopher Plummer, Peter Falk, Lee Grant, Tammy Grimes, George Grizzard, Jack Weston, Bernadette Peters, Martin Short, Linda Lavin, Gwen Verdon and Art Carney.
Many of his later plays explored darker themes, as those found in Biloxi Blues, Broadway Bound and Lost in Yonkers.Īmong a host of leading actors who appeared in Simon plays and musicals on Broadway are Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Robert Redford, Walter Matthau, George C.
Simon established his reputation writing some of Broadway’s most successful comedies, including Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, and Plaza Suite. “For almost half a century, his comedies have offered light at the end of whatever dark tunnel America has found itself in.” “No playwright in Broadway’s long and raucous history has so dominated the boulevard as the softly astringent Simon,” wrote John Lahr in The New Yorker in 2010.
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