Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Hanyar wucewa: Albee ya koma Greenwich Village na New York, inda ya tallafa wa kansa tare da wasu ayyuka yayin da yake koyon rubuta wasan kwaikwayo. Musamman a farkon wasan kwaikwayonsa, aikin Albee yana da wakilci daban-daban na al'ummar LGBTQIA sau da yawa suna ƙalubalantar hoton auren jinsi. Duk da kalubalantar ra'ayoyin jama'a game da al'ummar 'yan luwadi, bai dauki kansa a matsayin mai ba da shawara ga LGBT ba. Aikin Albee ya soki mafarkin Amurka. Farkon wasan kwaikwayonsa, Labarin Zoo, wanda aka rubuta a cikin makonni uku, an fara shi ne a Berlin a 1959 kafin daga baya ya fara Off-Broadway a 1960. Wasansa na gaba, Mutuwar Bessie Smith, kamar haka aka fara shi a Berlin kafin ya isa New York. Wasan Albee wanda ya fi shahara, Wanene Ya Ji Tsoron Virginia Woolf?, ya buɗe a Broadway a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Billy Rose a ranar 13 ga Oktoba, 1962, kuma ya rufe a ranar 16 ga Mayu, 1964, bayan dubawa biyar da wasanni 664. Wasan da aka yi jayayya ya lashe kyautar Tony don Kyauta mafi kyau a 1963 kuma an zaba shi ne don kyautar Pulitzer ta 1963 ta hanyar wasan kwaikwayo na wasan kwaikwayo, amma kwamitin da ke ba da shawara ya ƙi shi, wanda ya zaɓa kada ya ba da kyautar wasan kwaikwayo. Membobi biyu na juriya, John Mason Brown da John Gassner, daga baya sun yi murabus don nuna rashin amincewa. An ba da kyautar Oscar da aka ba da kyautar fim na wasan kwaikwayo mai rikitarwa a shekarar 1966 tare da Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, da Sandy Dennis. A cikin 2013, an zaɓi fim ɗin don adanawa a cikin Registry na Fina-Finan Kasa na Amurka ta Laburaren Majalisar Dattijai a matsayin "al'adu, tarihi, ko mahimmancin mahimmanci".A cewar The New York Times, Albee "ana ɗaukarsa a matsayin babban marubucin wasan kwaikwayo na Amurka a zamaninsa. "Kadan daga cikin ɗaliban ɗalibai daga baya ya ba da yawancin lokacinsa don inganta wasan kwaikwayo na jami'ar Amurka. Kwanan nan, ya yi aiki a matsayin farfesa mai daraja a Jami'ar Houston, inda ya koyar da karatun wasan kwaikwayo na musamman. An buga wasan kwaikwayonsa ta Dramatists Play Service da Samuel French, Inc.  Tambaya: Su wanene taurarin fim din da ya lashe kyautar Academy?
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, da kuma Sandy Dennis.