Albee

American  

[awl-bee] / ˈɔl bi /

noun

1. Edward, 1928–2016, U.S. playwright.

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Albee British  

/ ˈɔːlbiː /

noun

1. Edward. born 1928, US dramatist. His plays include Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), Seascape (1975), Marriage Play (1986), Three Tall Women (1990), and Goat (2004)

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Example Sentences

As Edward Albee put it, “what Shepard’s plays are about is a great deal less interesting than how they are about it.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

That also describes “Sean Scully: The Albee Barn, Montauk,” at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, N.Y., an account of the effect of the artist’s 1982 residency at the Albee Foundation, on Long Island.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025

Fifty miles south, in Fountain Valley, Danny Tran, who with his wife, Albee, runs Son Fish Sauce, sat down to write a message to his employees and customers.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2025

Her work is not strictly autobiographical, but as in the plays of Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee or Adrienne Kennedy, she has a canny way of rearranging the emotional furniture of her lived experience into tragicomedy.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2024

They could hold forth on Edward Albee and Adam Rapp.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove