Round 11: Tossup 17

Two characters created by this author have an awkward sexual encounter while watching the opening scene of The Wild Bunch. A film directed by this author is split into segments introduced by title cards displaying the names Wayne, Regina, and Avi. This author’s stage directions call (15[1])for Bernard Herrmann’s Prelude to The Naked and the Dead to introduce a play whose protagonists substitute actors like Pauly Shore and Ian Holm in a game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. The daughter of an acupuncturist played by Julianne Nicholson is the protagonist of this author’s 2023 directorial debut, (*) Janet Planet. (-5[1])Audiences complained about the numerous prolonged pauses in this author’s three-hour play about (10[1])Sam, Rose, and Avery. This sister-in-law of Noah Baumbach set the play Circle Mirror Transformation in Shirley, Vermont and won the 2014 Pulitzer for Drama for a play about three ushers in a movie palace. For 10 points, name this playwright of The Flick. ■END■

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