Commissioners Gregory Davila and Jimmy Weekley, Tennessee Williams Museum Fouunder and Curator Dennis Beaver, Mayor Teri Johnston, Curator Cori Convertito, and Commissioners Sam Kaufman, Clayton Lopez and Billy Wardlow. Commissioner Mary Lou Hoover is in virtual attendance on the screen above.

The Key West City Commission Marks Museum’s 10th Anniversary

The Key West City Commission recently honored one of the island city’s prominent writers by proclaiming Tennessee Williams Day.

Williams, one of the greatest 20th century American playwrights, lived and worked in Key West from 1949 until his death in 1983. His classics of the American stage earned him two Pulitzer Prizes, a Tony Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and many other literary and theater awards. In addition, his work reached world-wide audiences when his plays were adapted into motion pictures, winning several academy awards.

One of his Williams’s major plays, “The Rose Tattoo,” was written, filmed, and premiered in Key West at the San Carlos Institute.

March 26th marked Williams’s 110th birthday and was the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Tennessee Williams Museum in Key West. Founder and curator Dennis Beaver and curator Cori Convertito were on hand to receive the proclamation.

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