- Has won four Tony Awards: two as author of a Best Play winner, in 1995 for "Love! Valour! Compassion: and, the next year, in 1996, for "Master Class;" and twice as best Book (Musical), in 1993 for "Kiss of the Spider Woman--The Musical" and in 1998 for "Ragtime." He was also Tony-nominated in 2001 as Best Book (Musical) for "The Full Monty."
- Nominated for the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "A Perfect Ganesh".
- Premiere American Playwright who has won two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, and an Emmy Award for "Andre's Mother", as well as many other awards and citations.
- He was nominated for a 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best New Musical of the 2003 season for "The Book for Ragtime", performed at the Piccadilly Theatre.
- John Kander, Fred Ebb and he were awarded the 2002 Joseph Jefferson Award for New Adaptation for "The Visit" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
- David Yazbeck and his musical, "The Full Monty" at the Kokandy Productions Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2015 Joseph Jefferson Non-Equity Award for Musical Production.
- "The Full Monty" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 2002 Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Touring Production.
- He was awarded the 1988 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Writing for "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
- His play, "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 1988 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Production Award.
- He was awarded the 1990 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Writing for "The Lisbon Traviata" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
- His play, "The Lisbon Traviata" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 1990 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Production.
- His play,"Master Class" in a Gordon Davidson/Mark Taper Forum production at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 1995 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Production.
- His play, "Master Class" in a Gordon Davidson/Mark Taper Forum production at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 1995 Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Best Play.
- Longtime member of the Council of the Dramatists Guild served as vice president of the body from 1981 to 2001.
- Raised in Corpus Christi, Texas, he was the son of Dorothy Katharine (Rapp) and Hubert Arthur McNally. His parents ran a seaside bar and grill, The Pelican Club, in St. Petersburg, Florida, and then a Schlitz beer distributorship in Corpus Christi. He was of Irish and German descent.
- Received a B.A. in journalism from Columbia University.
- Terrence McNally and husband Tom Kirdahy are one of several sets of spouses to both receive Tony Awards. Terrence was nominated 8 times, winning 4: 1993 for "Kiss of the Spider Woman"(Book of a Musical); 1995 for "Love! Valour! Compassion!"(Best Play); 1996 for "Master Class"(Best Play); and "1998 for "Ragtime"(Book of a Musical). His other nominations include: 2001 for "The Full Monty"(Book of a Musical); 2014 for "Mothers and Sons"(Best Play); 2015 for "The Visit"(Book of a Musical); and 2019 for "Frankie and Johnny at the Claire du Lune"(Revival of a Play". Tom has been nominated 6 times, winning twice: in 2019 for "Hadestown"(Best Musical), and 2020 for "The Inheritance"(Best Play). Tom's other nominations include: 2010 for "Ragtime"(Revival of a Musical); "Mothers and Sons"(Best Play); "After Midnight"(Best Musical); and 2015 for "The Visit"(Best Musical).
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