Mark Kennedy FILE - This Jan. 1990 file photo shows playwright Arthur Kopit in Los Angeles. Kopit, a three time Tony Award-nominated playwright and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist known for fusing disparate genres, absurdism and a darkly comic world view, has died, Friday, April 2, 2021 according to Rick Miramontez, a senior publicist at DKC/O&M PR. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File) April 03, 2021 - 7:45 AM NEW YORK - Arthur Kopit, a three time Tony Award-nominated playwright and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist known for fusing disparate genres, absurdism and a darkly comic world view, has died. He was 83. Kopit died Friday, said Rick Miramontez, a senior publicist at DKC/O&M PR. No other details were available.