"Christopher Ferdinand Durang" is an United States/American playwright known for works of outrageous and often Theatre of the Absurd/absurd comedy. His work was especially popular in the 1980s, though his career seemed to get a second wind in the late 1990s. His play, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike won the Tony Award for Best Play in 2013. The production was directed by Nicholas Martin, and featured Sigourney Weaver, David Hyde Pierce, Kristine Nielsen, Billy Magnussen, Shalita Grant and Genevieve Angelson.

Currently he is co-director of the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program, taught at Juilliard.

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[It was before Vatican II and the liberalization of church doctrine.] You weren't meant to eat meat on Friday in deference to Christ, who died on Friday. If you did, you went to hell, ... That way, Hitler would be in hell alongside someone who ate meat on Friday. I thought there was no justice there.

I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius, ... But I believed everything my teachers and many in my family said.

It was like . . . Mad magazine.