N. RICHARD NASH: playwright, screenwriter, novelist, teacher

N. Richard Nash was a prolific and popular writer of plays, movies, and books, many of which are still favorites around the world.  His most famous play, The Rainmaker, and the musical version, 110 in the Shade (with lyrics by Tom Jones and score by Harvey Schmidt of the Fantasticks) have been translated into many languages and are still revived on Broadway and performed in community theaters, schools, stadiums, and the African veld.

Here, you can read about his life and career.  You can also find out how to obtain the rights to N. Richard Nash's works.  

ADD YOUR STORY

Dad touched many people's lives as a writer and also, deeply, as a teacher of playwrighting in schools and Universities.  If you have a story (or stories) about him or his writing that you would like to share, we welcome your remembrances in all their detail. 

Here's how to do it: take a look at the bio page, it may jog a memory for you; then leave a story in any of the Comments sections. 

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For more information or just to get back in touch with Nashes you may have known, you can email us at alighton @  mac .com.

Thanks for visiting!  Come back every now and then; the site's brand new and there'll be a lot more soon.

Comments

[Matt Hall]

What a great idea! So glad you did this. I hope it spawns a large and growing conversation.

[Jason Narvy]

At last we get a site dedicated to this very inspiring writer.

His plays came at a time in American history in which new forms were beginning to trying to break free of the realism that had dominated the stage for more than two decades. In his work in the 1950s in particular, we see the experimentation and rejection of realism that would become mainstream by the mid-sixties, but, regrettably, was sometimes too ahead of its time for critics. Throughout his work there is an ongoing exploration of the position of the individual within a stagnant society and the power of that person to change his or her environment through faith, imagination, and courage.

[Ray Ohlsen]

I have little knowledge of Mr. Nash, sadly, but I have read his novel titled Aphrodite's Cave and thought it a wonderful read.