Authors

Jan-Erik Sääf was born in 1962 in Halmstad and is a Swedish composer, lyricist and musician. He graduated from Musikhøjskolen in Malmö. His compositions include many different genres but with musical theater as a thread. First of all, he has written 12 performances, from these especially THE BLACK WIDOW and…

Jane Martin, apparently from Kentucky, first came to the attention of American theatrical audiences with TALKING WITH…, a collection of monologues that premiered at the 1981 Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors’ Theatre of Louisville. Ms. Martin’s other collected works include VITAL SIGNS and WHAT MAMA DON’T…

Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer-songwriter who first rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic-acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist with her own backing groups, The…

An aspiring playwright since high school, Jason Miller made his Broadway debut as an actor, playing Pip in the 1969 production PEQUOD. Miller’s first produced play was 1972’s NOBODY HEARS A BROKEN DRUM. Two years later, he won a Tony award for THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON. In 1982, he adapted his…

Screenwriter/Producer/Playwright/: Born March 03, 1922 – Fort Worth, TX Highly skilled scenarist (especially with adaptations) who in the 1960s and 70s turned out a number of superior scripts with strong, female protagonists, often winning awards for the actresses portraying them. Jay Presson Allen scored her biggest success in 1966, when…

French novelist, playwright and poet Jean Genet was born in Paris on December 19, 1910. Abandoned by his parents, he spent much of his youth in an institution for juvenile delinquents. At the age of ten, he was accused of stealing. Although innocent of the charge, having been described as…

“Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!” Jean GIRAUDOUX, Sodome et Gomorrhe, act II, scene 6 Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux {zhee-roh-doo’}, b. Oct. 29, 1882, d. Jan. 31, 1944, was a French dramatist who wrote 15 plays, most initially staged by…

Jean Poiret, born Jean Poiré, (1926 – 1992) was a French actor, director, and screenwriter. He is primarily known as the author of the original play La Cage Aux Folles (The Birdcage). Jean Poiret was born in Paris, France, where he died of a heart attack in 1992. He is…

Born in Los Angeles, Jed Feuer was moved to New York City at the age of six weeks. Growing up in a musical family, he was by age seven, studying trumpet under Joe Wilder (he later worked with Carmine Caruso). Piano with Joseph Kahn and Eugene Istomin followed shortly thereafter…

JEFFREY HATCHER (Book co-author) is fast becoming one of the most prolific and frequently produced playwrights in the U.S., and he recently adapted his acclaimed stage play COMPLEAT FEMALE STAGE BEAUTY for the screen. He wrote the screenplay CASANOVA for director Lasse Hallstrom, as well as screenplays for directors Steven…

Jens Albinus is Danish actor and dramatist and has been educated at school of performing arts at The Aarhus Theatre, Denmark. He has appeared in several films, including Lars von Trier’s THE IDIOTS and DANCER IN THE DARK. He has written plays such as MYSTERIER (1995), based on Knut Hamsung’s…

Born 1946 in Denmark and brought up on a farm. Studied at The Aarhus University; 1971 he obtained a Master’s Degree in Danish Literary. The same year for the first time his collection of poems, “Development for the future” was published. He was a committee member of the Danish Publishing…

Jens Svane Boutrup (b. 1973) is a Danish director, translator and playwright. He is educated in theatre studies at Copenhagen University and as a director from New York University and Brooklyn College. From 2005-2008 he was manager of The Momentum Theatre in Odense and since 2008 he has been manager…

JEREMY DESMON (Book, Music, and Lyrics) is a graduate of Stanford University (BA), NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts (MFA), recipient of the 2007 Kleban Award for excellence in Musical Theatre Bookwriting. THE GIRL IN THE FRAME has been seen around the world, including productions in London, Boston, Goodspeed Musicals,…

Jerome Kilty (1922-2007) was an American actor and playwright. He wrote Dear Liar: A Comedy of Letters, a play that had a successful run in New York, which was based on the correspondence of famed playwright George Bernard Shaw and actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell. He worked extensively on the stage,…

Jerome Lawrence (1915-2004) was an American playwright and author. He worked for several small newspapers as a reporter/editor before moving into radio as a writer for CBS. With his writing partner, Robert E. Lee, Lawrence worked for Armed Forces Radio during World War II; Lawrence and Lee became the most…

Jerry Herman (b. 1931) is an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway musical theater. He composed the scores for the hit Broadway musicals Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage aux Folles. He has been nominated for the Tony Award five times, and won twice, for La…

Jerry Sterner is either a successful businessman disguised as a playwright or a successful playwright masquerading as a businessman. After a lucrative career in the Real Estate business in New York, he turned to pursue his first love – playwriting. Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway…

Jesper Hyldegaard studied literature at the University of Odense and later trained as an actor. He now lives in Copenhagen and works as a writer, director, composer and actor. Jesper Hyldegaard was one of the founding members of the hugely sucessful Dr. Dante Theatre Company, which started as a fringe…

Jesper Malmose is cand.phil. in Danish and has worked with communications for “Danske Bank” and “Dragsholm Castle” among others. In addition, Jesper writes is a text- and screenwriter and has written revues, episodes for television series and theatrical performances. He has written the novel publication of season 1 of the…

Jesper Winge Leisner is known in Denmark from the great 80s pop attraction Rocazino. Since then, he has functioned as one of the most prolific composers and writers in Denmark. Today, Leisner is particularly interested in soundtracks and have written songs to several successful Danish films, he has brought film…

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko born July 18, 1933, is a Russian poet, whose work contains scathing attacks on the Russian bureaucracy as a legacy of Stalin. Born in Irkutsk and moved to Moscow as a boy and attended the Gorky Institute of Literature. Yevtushenko’s gifts as an orator and publicist, his…

Jim Jacobs (b. 1942) is an American composer, lyricist, and writer for the theatre. He is known for writing the book, lyrics and music, with Warren Casey, for the stage and film musical Grease.

James Richard “Jim” Steinman (born November 1, 1947) is an American composer, lyricist, and Grammy Award-winning record producer responsible for several hit songs. He has also worked as an arranger, pianist, and singer. His work has included songs in the adult contemporary, rock and roll, dance, pop, musical theater, and…

Yo Akim Hjejle is a selftought drummer, DJ, electric-boogie dancer, programmer and producer. He has produced , re-mixed and played drums for artists as Bass and Trouble, Lars H.U.G., No Name Requested, Kasper Winding, Anne Linnet, Rockers by Choice, Queen, Inner Circle, Shu bi dua, Jo-C-Fine, Al Agami, Clemens and…