Elaine May's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

In the record

Elaine Iva May (née Berlin; born April 21, 1932) is an American actress, comedian, writer, and director. The birth-card coordinate for April 21 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2019 Best Actress in a Play (The Waverly Gallery) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 2019 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play — The Waverly Gallery as Gladys Green

The King of Clubs coordinate

Elaine May's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Tony Award and not a verdict on Elaine May. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.

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Elaine May in the public record

She first gained fame in the 1950s for her improvisational comedy routines with Mike Nichols before going on to write and direct several critically acclaimed films. She has received numerous awards, including a BAFTA Award, a Grammy Award, and a Tony Award. She was honored with the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013, and an Honorary Academy Award in 2022. In 1955, May moved to Chicago and became a founding member of the Compass Players, an improvisational theater group. She began working alongside Nichols and in 1957, they both quit the group to form their own stage act, Nichols and May. In New York, they performed nightly in clubs in Greenwich Village alongside Joan Rivers and Woody Allen, as well as on the Broadway stage. They also made regular appearances on television and radio broadcasts. They released multiple comedy albums and received four Grammy Award nominations, winning Best Comedy Album for An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May in 1962.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Elaine May (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the King of Clubs

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Elaine May, and not a forecast of a Tony.

Clear thinking and decisive action

Elaine Iva May (née Berlin; born April 21, 1932) is an American actress, comedian, writer, and director.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: writer.

Also on the record

1. Their collaboration was covered in the PBS documentary Nichols and May: Take Two (1996).
2. May infrequently acted in films, including Luv, Enter Laughing (both 1967), California Suite (1978), and Small Time Crooks (2000).
3. She became the first female director with a Hollywood deal since Ida Lupino when she directed the 1971 black screwball comedy A New Leaf.
4. Experimenting with genres, she directed the dark romantic comedy The Heartbreak Kid (1972), the gangster film Mikey and Nicky (1976), and adventure comedy Ishtar (1987).

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Alan Cumming — 1998 Best Actor in a Musical (Cabaret)
• Bert Lahr — 1964 Best Actor in a Musical (Foxy)
• Beryl Reid — 1967 Best Actress in a Play (The Killing of Sister George)
• Douglas Hodge — 2010 Best Actor in a Musical (La Cage aux Folles)
• Lindsay Duncan — 2002 Best Actress in a Play (Private Lives)
• Patti LuPone — 1980 Best Actress in a Musical (Evita); 2008 Best Actress in a Musical (Gypsy)
• Ralph Bellamy — 1958 Best Actor in a Play (Sunrise at Campobello)
• Tony Shalhoub — 2018 Best Actor in a Musical (The Band's Visit)

FAQ

What is Elaine May's birth card?

The King of Clubs. April 21 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Tony Award?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Elaine May's dates come from?

Birth date 1932-04-21 is the day-precision date on Elaine May's Wikipedia person page, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Wikipedia dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Tony Award wins come from the Wikipedia leading-acting lists, which record the Tony Awards. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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