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Albee

American  
[awl-bee] / ˈɔl bi /

noun

  1. Edward, 1928–2016, U.S. playwright.


Albee British  
/ ˈɔːlbiː /

noun

  1. Edward. born 1928, US dramatist. His plays include Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), Seascape (1975), Marriage Play (1986), Three Tall Women (1990), and Goat (2004)

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As Edward Albee put it, “what Shepard’s plays are about is a great deal less interesting than how they are about it.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

That also describes “Sean Scully: The Albee Barn, Montauk,” at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, N.Y., an account of the effect of the artist’s 1982 residency at the Albee Foundation, on Long Island.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025

Albee Tran, who was born and raised in Vietnam, is the fourth generation in her family to produce fish sauce.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2025

When Albee Zhang received an offer to produce cheesy short-form features made for phones last spring, she was skeptical, and so, she declined.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2024

They could hold forth on Edward Albee and Adam Rapp.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove