Authors

Håkon Berge (born April 22, 1954 in Stavanger) is a Norwegian composer, conductor, arranger and music administrator, residing in Kristiansand. He was educated at the Oslo Music Conservatory and at the Norwegian School of Music. Berge has contributed to productions at Rogaland Theatre, Den Nationale Scene and the National Theatre…

“Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head”, “This Guy’s in Love With You”, and “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again”, are just three of the hits in a string of standards written by Academy Award-winning lyricist Hal David. “Raindrops”, which was in the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, garnered…

Hal Hackady is an American lyricist, librettist, and screenwriter.Hackady’s theatrical career began with the 1955 Broadway revue ALMOST CRAZY starring Kay Medford, for which he wrote sketches and lyrics. Additional Broadway credits include MINNIE’S BOYS, GOODTIME CHARLEY, AMBASSADOR and TEDDY & ALICE. In 1975, Hackady wrote the lyrics for SNOOPY…

Hans Christian Andersen (April 2, 1805, in Odense – August 4, 1875 at rest in Copenhagen) was a Danish poet and author who is world famous for his fairy tales. He was known for his bouquets and paper clips, and is believed to have invented the merged Danish Christmas heart…

Harald Leander was born in 1962 in Sweden and studied drama, theatre and film at the University of Lund in 1982-83 after which he trained as an actor at the School of Theatre in Malmö in 1990-93. Subsequently he has worked as musician, actor and director at several prominent theatres…

You have probably heard, and maybe even hummed, a Harold Arlen song today without even knowing it. though he is most noted for composing the songs for the film THE WIZARD OF OZ, particularly OVER THE RAINBOW which Was recently named the IT’S ONLY A PAPER MOON, STORMY WEATHER, I’VE…

Harold Brighouse ( 1882 – 1958) was an English playwright and author whose best known play is Hobson’s Choice. He was a prominent member, together with Allan Monkhouse and Stanley Houghton, of a group known as the Manchester School of dramatists.

Harry Warren (1893 – 1981) was an American composer and lyricist. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he is regarded as one of America’s most prolific but least known composers.Warren composed music with Ira Gershwin, Johnny Mercer, Billy Rose, and Al Dubin. “Chattanooga Choo Choo” was the first gold record. Among…

Harvey Forbes Fierstein (b. 1952) is an American actor and playwright, noted for the early (1982) distinction of winning Tony Awards for both writing and playing the lead role in his long-running play Torch Song Trilogy, about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family. He has…

Hávar Sigurjónsson graduated from Manchester University Drama Department with a BA honours degree in 1982 and he did his Masters in Theatre Arts at Leeds University Workshop Theatre in 1983. Since 1983 he has worked professionally in Iceland as a stage director, writer, translator and journalist. From 1992-1997 he was…

Heathcote Williams (1941, UK ) is a British poet and playwright, noted for his works WHALE NATION and the play THE LOCAL STIGMATIC. He is also notable as actor. His movie career includes works like WISH YOU WERE HERE and ORLANDO.

Heinrich Hoffmann (1809 – 1894) was a German psychiatrist, who also wrote some short works including Der Struwwelpeter, an illustrated book portraying children misbehaving.

Heleen Verburg was born in 1964. She graduated from Amsterdam’s School for Cabaret in 1988. While still at school she wrote a one-act play which landed her the 1987 Creativity Prize. From 1987 until 1990 she was affiliated with the theatre collective Mevrouw Smit as an actress and playwright, composing…

Helen Blakeman (born 1971) is a British playwright and screenwriter from Liverpool. Her first play, Caravan, was written while she studied at Birmingham University and won her the George Devine award. Her second play, Normal, was followed by an entrance into screenwriting. Pleasureland is a 2003 television film about teen…

Helene Hanff (1916– 1997) was an American writer. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she is best known as the author of the book “84 Charing Cross Road”, which became the basis for a stage play, television play, and film of the same name.

Helene Uri (Norwegian born in Stockholm in 1964), who is a doctor of linguistics, left her position at the University of Oslo in 2005, and has been a fulltime writer since then. She is an experienced writer with several books published: novels, children’s books, books about language and linguistics. She…

Henrik Krogholt was born in 1966. After having traveled all over the world, he lived in California for an extended period, where he studied writing at Los Angeles Pierce College and at the American Film Institute. At the same time he worked as a director, actor, and wrote the scripts…

Henrik Prip (b. 1960) is a Danish actor, trained from Odense Theater in 1990, who is known for his many parts in the theater, television and film. Henrik Prip has also made a name for himself as a screenwriter and playwright.

Henrik Scharling, 1836-1920, Danish theologian and author, son of C.E Scharling and brother of W. Scharling. In 1867, he became lecturer in theology at the University of Copenhagen and was from 1870 to 1916 professor of ethics and philosophy of religion. His polemicises vigorously opposed both contemporary culture radical currents…

Henry Adam was born in Wick in the far north of Scotland in 1964. He worked extensively in Youth and Community theatre before turning his attention to the professional stage. His first full-length play for the Traverse Theatre, “Among Unbroken Hearts” transferred to the Bush Theatre, London after successful runs…

French playwright, initially popular for a series of sensational melodramas. He later turned to more serious themes, experimented with new forms, and campaigned against anti-Semitism and Nazism.

Henry de Montherlant or Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant ( 1895 – 1972) was a French essayist, novelist and one of the leading French dramatists of the twentieth century. His early successes were works such as Les célibataires (The Bachelors) in 1934, and the tetralogy Les jeunes…

Henry Denker (b. 1912) is an American novelist and playwright. Denker was the originator and writer of what he describes as the “first television series ever produced,” False Witsness, on NBC-TV in 1939. Despite its success, the series was discontinued when the nascent medium of television was converted into an…

Henry Krieger (born February 9, 1945 in New York City) is an American composer. Krieger wrote the music for the Broadway shows DREAMGIRLS1981, with lyrics and book by Tom Eyen), THE TAP DANCE KID (1983), and SIDE SHOW1997), as well as other works of musical theatre. He was nominated for…

While still in his twenties, Mr. Krieger began composing for Off-Off Broadway, and met playwright-lyricist Tom Eyen. Together with director- choreographer Michael Bennett, they created the long running Broadway hit musical, DREAMGIRLS, which opened to rave reviews at the Imperial Theatre on December 20, 1981. DREAMGIRLS won six Tony Awards…

Enrico Nicola Mancini was born in Cleveland, Ohio on April 16, 1924. Like most Hollywood success stories, he rose from inauspicious beginnings by toiling as a musical assistant and composer of secondary cues for Universal Studios. After receiving his big break with his first complete major score, Orsons Welles’ TOUCH…

Herbert George “Herb” Gardner (1934 – 2003) was an American commercial artist, cartoonist, playwright, and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1962 play “A Thousand Clowns”, which ran for two years. He received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay for the successful 1965 movie adaptation. Gardner’s biggest commercial success…

HERBERT APPLEMAN (New Book and Lyrics) studied at Harvard (BA), Columbia (MA), and the Yale School of Drama. He was a professor of English & Theatre at Oakland University in Michigan for 10 years. A man of varied talents, he won an Emmy Award for… AND SUDDENLY YOU’RE ALONE, a…

Hilary Bell is a very versatile writer and has written lyrics for musicals, as well as for radio plays and TV-shows. She is also a dramatist. In 1996 she had her debut as a novelist with the book MIRROR MIRROR.

Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann (1846-1908) was a Danish poet and painter. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of the breakthrough in modernism. He was born in Copenhagen as a cousin to the politician Viggo Hørup. He was educated a painter, but poetry won him over. He had…

Howard Elliot Ashman (1950 – 1991) was an American playwright and lyricist. Ashman first studied at Boston University and Goddard College (with a stop at Tufts University’s Summer Theater) and then went on to achieve his master’s degree from Indiana University in 1974. He collaborated with Alan Menken on several…

Howard Barker’s plays are known for their fearless exploration of power, sexuality and human motivation. His texts overflow with rich language, challenging ideas, history, beauty, violence and imaginative comedy, all brought together within the extremes of human experience to create a powerful and compelling theatrical experience. Barker’s texts are constructed…

English dramatist. His political theatre, deliberately provocative, includes THE CHURCHILL PLAY(1974) og THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN (1980). Brenton was strongly influenced by German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht. Other plays include MAGNIFICENCE (1973), THE GENIUS (1983), BLOODY POETRY (1984) and GREENLAND

HOWARD GREENFIELD (Lyrics) was born in Brooklyn, New York, and worked with Neil Sedaka. After first supplying “Passing Time” to The Cookies, Sedaka and Greenfield scored their first major pop hit single with Connie Francis’ “Stupid Cupid”. When, in 1959, Sedaka signed to RCA Records as a solo artist, he…

Howard Lindsay was born in Waterford, New York, in 1889 and died in 1968. He became an actor at nineteen. His first big break was to act and direct in the George S. Kaufman hit DULCY in 1921. Lindsay wrote many plays before teaming up with Russel Crouse on ANYTHING…