Authors

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…

Born in Reykjavík in 1965, Hrafnhildur Hagalín graduated from the Reykjavík College of Music as a classical guitarist and later studied Literature and Theatre at the University of Sorbonne, Paris-IV. Her first play, “I am the Maestro”, was produced at the Reykjavík City Theatre and won the Icelandic Critics´ Award…

Hugh Whitemore (b. 1936 – d. 2018) was an English playwright and screenwriter. Whitemore studied for the stage at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he is now a Member of the Council. He began his writing career in British television with both original teleplays and adaptations of classic…

Hugo Claus ranks as the most important Flemish writer after the Second World War. In addition to his literary work, he has been active as a painter and a movie maker. In the fifties he belonged to the avant-garde artists who were active in Paris. His wide-ranging oeuvre consists of…

Respected stage and screen character actor whose outstanding performances in plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Albee, and Beckett revealed his versatility. He was nominated for five Tony Awards, and won for Hamlet. His other Broadway successes include A DELICATE BALANCE and GIN GAME. He also won acclaim for his roles in…

Inga Lindsjö (1922-1999), Swedish poet, translator, composer.

Inger Christensen (16 January 1935 – 2 January 2009) was an award winning Danish poet, novelist, and essayist considered the foremost Danish poetic experimentalist of her generation. From 1978 she was a member of the Danish Academy.

Ira Gershwin (1896 –1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century. With George he wrote more than a dozen Broadway shows, featuring songs such as “I Got Rhythm”, “Embraceable You”, “The Man…

Ira Levin (1929 – 2007) was an American author, dramatist and songwriter. After college, he wrote training films and scripts for television. The first of these was ”Leda’s Portrait” for “Lights Out” in 1951. Levin’s first produced play was “No Time for Sergeants” (adapted from Mac Hyman’s novel), a comedy…

Irene Hause (1950 – 2006) was a Swedish playwright who wrote plays for youngsters and adults often about identity questions.

Irvine Welsh was born in Edinburgh in 1958. His first novel, TRAINSPOTTING (1993), a blackly comic portrait of a group of young heroin users living in Edinburgh in the 1980s, was adapted as a film directed by Danny Boyle, starring Ewan McGregor and Robert Carlyle, in 1996. THE ACID HOUSE,…

Isobel Lennart (1915-1971) was an American screenwriter and playwright. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Lennart moved to Hollywood, where she was hired to work in the MGM mail room, a job she lost when she attempted to organize a union. She joined the Communist Party in 1939 but left…

Playwright Ivan Menchell is a prolific writer-producer of television shows such as “The Nanny” and “Jonas,” and with co-writer Clare Sera is scheduled to have a 2015 opening for the movie “Blended,” starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. After a decade hiatus from the stage, Mr. Menchell also wrote the…

Ivan Sergejevitj (1818-1883) was a Russian writer. Together with the younger Dostojevskij and Leo Tolstoj, Turgenjev placed Russian literature in the first row in the second half of the 19th century.

John Boynton Priestley, (1894 – 1984) — known as J.B. Priestley — was an English novelist, playwright and broadcaster. He published 27 novels, notably The Good Companions (1929), as well as numerous dramas. His output included literary and social criticism.

James Patrick Donleavy was born in New York in 1926, both parents having immigrated from Ireland. Donleavy’s first novel, THE GINGER MAN, did indeed make him famous, but it took years to complete and years more to get published, many would-be publishers praising its artistic qualities but fearing legal and…

Jack Popplewell (22 March 1911 – 16 November 1996) was an English writer and playwright. Popplewell was born and grew up in Leeds. He published his first song in 1940, and his first play, Blind Alley was staged in London in 1953.

Jacob Thune Hansen Gade (29 November 1879 – 20 February 1963) was a Danish composer, violinist and conductor. Jacob Gade started with nothing and made his way up. He started as a musician in his farther’s orchestra in the Danish provinces but left for Copenhagen where he ended as conductor…

Jacobo Langsner (born 1927) moved with his family in 1930 to Montevideo, where later he became very involved in the city’s theatre scene. Then in the 1970’ies, he emigrated from Buenos Aires to Spain because of the military dictatorship in Argentina at that time. As playwright, Langsner has steadily made…

Jacques Audiberti (1899 – 1965) was a French playwright, poet and novelist and exponent of the Theatre of the Absurd. His plays include: Le mal court (1947), L’effet Glapion (1959) and La Fourmi dans le corps (1962).

Jacques Copeau (1879-1949) was an influential French theatre director, producer, actor, and dramatist. Before he founded his famous Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris, he wrote theater reviews for several Parisian journals, worked at the Georges Petit Gallery where he organized exhibits of artists’ works and helped found the Nouvelle Revue…

Jacques Boularan (1895 – 1972), known by the pseudonym Jacques Deval, was a French playwright and director. His most famous work is the play Tovaritch (1933), later adapted into English as the film Tovarich (1937).

Offenbach’s real name was Jakob Wiener. He was born at Cologne, Germany in 1819, and died in Paris in 1880, aged sixty-one. He was the son of a Jewish cantor. Offenbach moved to Paris in 1833 to study the cello. He earned his living playing cello in the orchestra of…

Born 17 januar 1969. He trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Music as a conductor and saxophonist. Jacob Høgsbro works in a wide range musical work. He has composed and conducted several musicals, been a soloist with the South Jutland Symphony Orchestra for his own works and give teambuilding…

American essayist, novelist, and playwright, noted for his novels on sexual and personal identity, and sharp essays on civil-rights struggle in the United States. His eloquence and passion on the subject of race in America made him an important voice, and one of the most influential authors of his time,…

James Costigan (1926-2007) was an American television actor and Emmy Award winning television screenwriter. His writing credited included the Eleanor and Franklin and Love Among the Ruins television movies. He first achieved some level of success in the 1950s, when he began being hired to write television anthology series, such…

James Kirkwood (1924-1989) was an American playwright and author. In 1976 he received the Tony Award, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the Broadway hit “A Chorus Line”.

James Lapine (b. 1949) is an American stage director and librettist. Lapine was born in Mansfield, Ohio and graduated from Franklin and Marshall College. He went to do graduate study in both photography and graphic design at the California Institute of the Arts. He was a photographer, graphic designer, and…

James Leo Herlihy (1927 – 1993) was an American novelist, playwright and actor. Born into a working class family in Detroit, Michigan, Herlihy is known for his novels Midnight Cowboy and All Fall Down and his play Blue Denim, all of which were adapted for the screen. Other works include…

Scottish playwright and novelist. He is best remembered for his play Peter Pan, a supernatural fantasy about a boy who refused to grow up. His early plays were mostly unsuccessful, but the dramatization in 1897 of THE LITTLE MINISTER established him as a playwright. Barrie’s life was dominated by his…

James Price (b. 1959) is a Danish composer and conductor. He is the son of the actor couple Birgitte Price and John Price and big brother to the playwright Adam Price. James Price has studied composition at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and already at the age of 20…

James Rado (born James Radomski in 1932), is an American actor, writer and composer, best known as the co-author, along with Gerome Ragni, of 1967’s groundbreaking American tribal love-rock musical Hair. He and Ragni were nominated for the 1969 Tony Award for best musical, and they won for best musical…

James Roose-Evans (b. 1927) is a British author, playwright, and theatre director. Born in London, Roose-Evans studied at Oxford University, from which he graduated in 1957. Two years later, he founded the Hampstead Theatre Club, where he served as artistic director until 1971. Roose-Evans has directed, among other projects, The…

James Saunders (1925-2004) was born in Islington, North London. Educated at Wembley County School and Southampton University, he became a chemistry tutor by day at Davis’s, Holland Park (London) and a playwright by night, until devoting all his time to writing. He received an Arts Council playwright’s bursary for THE…

Thurber’s witty short stories and lumpy cartoons were a popular mainstay of The New Yorker magazine in the 1930s and 1940s. A Midwestern boy with an urbane twist, Thurber mixed comical reminiscences of his Ohio childhood with wry observations on modern times and the battle of the sexes. Thurber became…

Musician and composer with a huge catalogue. Please visit: www.irhojstudio.dk or contact info@nordiska for more information.