Scott McPherson (October 13, 1959 Columbus, Ohio – November 7, 1992 Chicago) was an American playwright.
[1] He was influential as one of the first openly gay playwrights when AIDs was severely impacting the nation.
[2] McPherson, whose father died in a car accident when he was two, was raised by his mother, who worked part-time in a department store, in a predominantly Roman Catholic home in Columbus, Ohio.
[4] In 1981, he moved to Chicago, where he acted in The House of Blue Leaves and "The Normal Heart," where he met actor and Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Steven Drukman with whom he lived for three years.
The Goodman Theatre and the Victory Gardens Theater have established an annual playwriting award in his name.