American playwright and screenwriter Paul Rudnick was BOTD in 1957. Born in Piscataway, New Jersey, he studied at Yale University before moving to New York City, where he worked as a magazine columnist. His first play, the comedy Poor Little Lambs, was produced in 1982, starring the then-unknown Kevin Bacon and Bronson Pinchot. He then published two comic novels Social Disease and I’ll Take It, and had his play I Hate Hamlet produced on Broadway. His best-known play Jeffrey, a comedy about a single gay man navigating romance in the age of HIV/AIDS, was produced Off-Broadway in 1993, and adapted for film in 1995. His other plays include The Naked Eye, inspired by the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, a queer rewrite of the Genesis story featuring Adam and Steve. He is better known as a screenwriter, writing the very good comedies The Addams Family, The First Wives Club, and Sister Act and the truly dreadful coming-out comedy In and Out, the Jacqueline Susann biopic Isn’t She Great and a critically reviled remake of The Stepford Wives. Since 1988, he has written film reviews for Premiere magazine as his comic alter-ego Libby Gelman-Waxner. Openly gay since forever, he lives in New York City with his long-term partner John Raftis.