Dennis Clontz
Playwright, Film writer
1951 – 2004
Who was Dennis Clontz?
Dennis Clontz was an American playwright, journalist, and screenwriter. He was one of the inaugural recipients of the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting in 1986. Clontz was part of a team of Los Angeles Times journalists awarded a 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting on the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
Clontz earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from University of California, Los Angeles. Plays by Clontz include Generations, Night Breath, Interfusions, Fire/Photograph, American Play, and A Match Made in Heaven.
Clontz died of lung cancer. His heirs have announced planned publication of a posthumous collection of his plays and poems.
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- Born
- Apr 10, 1951
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- 2004
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on July 23, 2013
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