Authors

Jörgen Bergmark, born 1964, has worked his way through TV, film and stage drama as a writer, producer and director, especially of television series and short films. He also works with script consultancy, and is currently writing and developing several features and TV-series both of his own and together with…

Character player of the 1970s and 80s, usually in comic roles. Bologna writes for theater and TV with his wife, Renee Taylor; the duo co-adapted (from their own plays) LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS (1970) and the 1989 feature, IT HAD TO BE YOU which they co-directed.

Joseph Hayes (1918–2006) was an American author and playwright, born in Indianapolis, Indiana. When he was thirteen, he entered a Benedictine monastery, staying there for two years. He graduated from Indiana University. In 1949, he brought “Leaf and Bough” to Broadway. In 1954, he wrote the novel The Desperate Hours,…

JOSEPH MCDONOUGH (Book) is the resident playwright at both the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (where he was the winner of the 2006 Mickey Kaplan New American Play Prize for his play STONE MY HEART) and the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati where Cinderella was given its world premiere, and where…

Joseph Stein is a musical theatre librettist and playwright living in New York City. He won the Tony Award and the NY Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical for writing FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. His other musicals include ZORBA (Tony nomination, Drama Critics Circle Award), THE BAKER’S WIFE, (Oliver…

JOSHUA SALZMAN (Music) is the composer of I LOVE YOU BECAUSE. Current projects include QUEEN ESTHER, a family musical based on the Jewish holiday of Purim. He makes his television writing debut this year with Ryan Cunningham creating songs for Disney’s JOHNNY AND THE SPRITES, starring John Tartaglia. Memberships include:…

Josiane Balasko began her career writing and performing with Splendid, a theatre group in Paris. She made her feature film debut in 1976 and has gone on to become a popular French actress. In 1985, Balasko made her directorial debut with ALL MIXED UP. Furthermore, she has written, directed and…

“Judy Upton is a playful writer who likes nothing better than to upset expectations” – Independent. Judy Upton’s work for theatre includes EVERLASTING ROSE (London New Play Festival), TEMPLE, THE GIRLZ (Richmond Orange Tree), PIG IN THE MIDDLE (Y Touring), CONFIDENCE (Birmingham Rep), THE BALLAD OF A THIN MAN (Channel…

Jule Styne (December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994) was a British born United States songwriter. In 1947 Styne wrote his first score for a Broadway musical, HIGH BUTTON SHOES, and over the next several decades wrote the scores for many Broadway shows, most notably GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDS, PETER PAN,…

Julian Crouch is a director, designer, writer, and teacher whose career has spanned Theatre, Opera, Film, and Television. Crouch and McDermott’s most enduring collaboration to date has been SHOCKHEADED PETER for Cultural Industry (Olivier Awards – Best Entertainment, also nominated for Best Direction and Best Design, TMA Best Director Award,…

Julian More (1928-2010) wrote the libretto and lyrics of three hit West End musicals — Grab Me A Gondola, Irma La Douce and Expresso Bongo — all of which captured the growing freedom of expression then emerging on the London stage. More wrote with a distinctly contemporary and dynamic feel…

Julian Hartridge Green, or Julien Green (1900 – 1998), was a French born American author of several novels including Léviathan and Each in His Own Darkness. He wrote primarily in French, but was not a French citizen.

Julius Brammer (1877-1943) war an Austrian Libretto writer. He was educated an actor and was employed by the Gärtnerplatztheater and afterwards the Theatre an der Wien, where he also performed in operas. In 1908 he started working as an composer often together with Alfred Grunwald, Leo Ascher, Edmund Eysler, Leo…

Jurij Trifonov (1925-1981) was a Soviet writer. Trifonov was educated from the Institute of Literature in Moskow and received the Stalin prize in 1950 for his novel “The Students”. After a number of ideologically inaccessible works his writings became more complex. He attacked the Soviet ideology and his prose was…

Jussi Larnö (born 1943) is a Finland Swedish actor, director, dramaturge and musician.

Almost every Dane knows about Kai Normann Andersen (1900-1967). He was a composer and left us with over 900 melodies, of which many have become evergreens. Particularly he is loved and cherished because of his music to Danish films, operettas and revues of the 30’ies, 40’ies and 50’ies. To this…

Karen Sunde is an actress turned writer. Plays of hers have been performed Off-Broadway, in regional theatres, on a USA tour, and abroad – in ten countries and seven languages.

Kari Hotakainen (born 1957) is an award winning Finnish writer. Hotakainen started his writing career as a reporter in Pori. In the beginning of the 1980’s he started writing poetry and was published 1982. From poetry, Hotakainen moved on to writing books for children and young adults and then on…

Kari Vidø was born 1961 and is a dramatisk as well as a director. She has attended The Danish Filmschool from which she graduated in 1997, and has since then worked as filmdirector and scriptwriter, especially for Danish television. She made her debut as a dramatist at Café Teatret in…

Karl Schönherr was born in Axam in the Tyrol in 1867 and died in Vienna in 1943. Both a doctor and author, he studied philosophy and medicine in Vienna and Innsbruck, where he became part of the broad-minded group, ‘Jung-Tirol’, which published the papers, ‘Der Scherer’ and ‘Der Föhn’. Alongside…

(1922-94) Writer, born in Karlsruhe, Germany. He studied English and then worked as an actor and director. He wrote successful comedies distinguished by their witty dialogue, notably KENNEN SIE DIE MILCHSTRAßE? (1955) and SEELENWANDERUNG (1963). Other works include radio and television plays, and he also adapted several modern classics for…

Károly Szakonyi (26. oktober 1931), Hungarian author.

Karst Woudstra (b. 1947) is a Dutch director and playwright. From 1980-85 he worked as a theatre manager for Publiekstheater, after which he continued as a freelance director parallel with his playwriting. His plays have been staged all over the World and he is indeed known for his psychological realism.

Karsten Alnæs was born in 1938 in Hønefoss, Norway. He worked as a senior master at grammar school and at school of journalism. He was president of the Norwegian Writers Society in 1985-87 and a cultural editor of Dagbladet in 1987-91. He made his debut as a writer in 1975…

Kasper Wilton (born December 16, 1960 in Frederiksberg) is a Danish actor, director and theater manager. He has worked as an actor, translator, writer, director and teacher at drama schools and conservatories. He has participated in the 14th episode of the TV series UNIT ONE and the plays NØDDEBO PRÆSTEGÅRD,…

Katja Krohn (b. 1966) graduated as a director from the Theatre Academy in 1998 and has worked as a director and playwright for the City Theatre of Helsinki and as an artistic director for the Little Finish Theatre. As a playwright Krohn has written a numerous of plays and in…

Kay Mellor is one of Britain’s most successful television writers. She has writing the prostitution thriller BAND OF GOLD, and a women’s football series, PLAYING THE FIELD, and stories from the slimming club FAT FRIENDS, and a powerful drama about living with a brain-damaged man, SOME KIND OF LIFE. She…

Mark Saltzman began his career in NY with Jim Henson, writing for THE MUPPETS. His SESAME STREET sketches and songs (including “CARIBBEAN AMPHIBIAN”) earned him seven Emmy Awards. But behind Kermit’s back, Mark was writing cabaret shows and musicals that played at The Ballroom, Soho Rep, 13th Street Theatre, and…