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"Mark O&amp;#039;Donnell has died, aged 58. The Tony Award-winning writer co-wrote the successful stage shows Hairspray and Cry-Baby. His agent Jack Tantleff confirmed that he collapsed on Monday (August 6) in the reception of his apartment in Manhattan, New York. A post-mortem will take place later today. O&amp;#039;Donnell and Thomas Meehan won a Tony Award in 2003 for their musical adaptation of the movie Hairspray. They later earned Tony nominations in 2008 for Cry-Baby. His other plays included Vertigo Park, The Nice and the Nasty and That&amp;#039;s It, Folks! He also wrote the novels Getting Over Homer and Let Nothing You Dismay. Actress Martha Plimpton paid tribute to O&amp;#039;Donnell on Twitter, writing: &amp;quot;So terribly sad to lose the lovely, dear, and kind Mark O&amp;#039;Donnell. Funny, sweet. I&amp;#039;ll miss seeing him round the neighbourhood. Very, very sad.&amp;quot; His agent added: &amp;quot;He was a huge talent, and a warm, witty and wonderful man who marched to his own drummer.&amp;quot; O&amp;#039;Donnell was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1954. He was the identical twin of TV writer, Steve O&amp;#039;Donnell, the head writer on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Hairspray was adapted into a 2007 movie starring John Travolta and Michelle Pfeiffer. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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