Authors
Marin Sorescu
Marin Sorescu ( 1936 – 1996) was a Romanian poet, playwright, and novelist. His first book, a collection of parodies in 1964 entitled Singur printre poe?i (“Alone Among Poets”), was widely discussed. He himself called them “sarcastic and awkward”. Ten volumes of poetry and prose followed, having a very rapid…
Read moreMarina Carr
Marina Carr was born in 1964 and grew up in Co Offaly. Her main theatrical works include LOW IN THE DARK (Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 1989); THE DEER’S SURRENDER (Dublin, Andrews Lane Theatre,1990); THIS LOVE THING (Dublin, Project Arts Centre, and Belfast, Old Museum Building, 1991); THE MAI (The Peacock,…
Read moreMarion Adler
MARION ADLER (Lyrics) is a lyricist, actor and singer. She was a winner of the prestigious Kleban Award in 2000 for her body of work as a lyricist. In addition to her work with Craig Bohmler, which includes GUNMETAL BLUES and HOW TO MAKE A MUSICAL, she has also contributed…
Read moreMark Bramble
Mark Bramble (b. 1950) is a theatre director, author and producer. He has been nominated for the Tony Award three times, for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Barnum and 42nd Street (1981) and Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical, 42nd Street (2001). Bramble…
Read moreMark Medoff
A college professor of English since 1966 at the University of New Mexico at Las Cruces, Medoff took up playwrighting and had his first play, the grim and claustrophobic WHEN YOU COMIN’ BACK, RED RYDER?, produced off-Broadway in 1974. (Its 1979 screen adaptation was a critical and box office disappointment).The…
Read moreMark O’Rowe
Dubliner Mark O’Rowe is already an award-winning playwright often placed in the trinity of new Irish playwrights that includes Conor McPherson and Martin McDonagh. While each of them takes a visceral look at contemporary Ireland, O’Rowe’s fierce language has a unique intensity and rawness. Theatre credits include ANNA’S ANKLE, FROM…
Read moreMark Ravenhill
Mark Ravenhill (born 1966) is an English playwright, actor and journalist. He studied English and Drama at Bristol University from 1984–1987 and is one of the most widely-performed playwrights in British theatre. Many of his texts have been published.
Read moreMark Saltzman
MARK SALTZMAN (Book and Lyrics) began his career in N.Y. 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…
Read moreMark Troy
Mark Troy has had over 40 major plays produced around the world including “Desperation”, “Belladonna’s of the Court” (Five Valley Theatre League Awards including Best New Comedy, and being published by Brooklyn Publishers this Fall), “Century Village Boca,” The Proposal,” “Birdy” (All finalists at The Actors Theatre of Louisville Short…
Read moreMark Wright
Mark Wright is a British playwright, best known for his collaborations with Cavan Scott. They first came to light writing as the writers of the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio play Project: Twilight, where they created the original villain Nimrod. Since then they have worked together on the Fifth…
Read moreMarsha Norman
Marsha Norman was born 21 Sep, 1947 Louisville, KY, USA. She is the daughter of a fundamentalist Methodist, Norman had a solitary childhood in Louisville, Kentucky. Her mother’s religious views prohibited Norman from playing with other children and watching television and movies, and she credits her loneliness as a child…
Read moreMarshall Brickman
Marshall Brickman (b. 1939) is an American screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with Woody Allen. He is also known for playing the banjo with Eric Weissberg in the 1960s, and for a series of comical parodies published in The New Yorker.
Read moreMart Crowley
Crowley is a playwright born on August 21, 1935, in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Mart Crowley is primarily known for his landmark play, THE BOYS IN THE BAND, written in 1968, which deals with male homosexual lifestyles. From almost every critical view, the play was praised by critics and Crowley was acknowledged…
Read moreMartin Crimp
Martin Crimp (born 1956) is one of the most performed British playwrights. He studied English at St Catharine’s College in Cambridge and has, in addition to his work as a theater writer, established himself as a translator and librettist. Several of his texts have been published.
Read moreMartin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh was born in London in March 26 1970 to expatriate Irish parents. His plays include THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE (The Abbey, Peacock Stage, Dublin, 1996 / London, Royal Court Theatre, 1997). The play is the first in his CONNEMARA Trilogy, which also includes A SKULL IN CONNEMARA…
Read moreMartin Miehe-Renard
Martin Miehe-Renard (b. 1956) is a Danish actor, producer, director, composer and earlier theatre manager. Miehe-Renard made his debut as a film actor in 1974 and has directed and performed in a number of performances including musicals. For a short period of time he was theatre manager for Amagerscenen and…
Read moreMarvin Hamlish
Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (b. 1944) is an American composer. He is one of only two people to have been awarded Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, and a Tony: known as an EGOT plus a Pulitzer Prize. Hamlisch has also won two Golden Globes.
Read moreMary Agnes Donoghue
Short story writer and poet whose first screenplay THE BUDDY SYSTEM was filmed in 1984. She has subsequently scripted the female buddy film BEACHES (1988), co-produced and co-written the Goldie Hawn thriller, DECEIVED and, with no prior behind-the-camera experience, made her directing debut with PARADISE (both 1991) which she adapted…
Read moreMary Chase
Mary Coyle Chase (1906 – 1981) was an American journalist, playwright and screenwriter, known primarily for writing the Broadway play Harvey, later adapted for film starring James Stewart. She wrote fourteen plays, two children’s novels, one screenplay, and worked seven years at the Rocky Mountain News as a journalist.
Read moreMary Hayley Bell
Mary Hayley Bell, Lady Mills (1911 – 2005) was an English actress, writer and dramatist. Bell wrote four plays: Men in Shadow (1942), Angel (1947), Duet for Two Hands (1945), and The Uninvited Guest (1953). She wrote the novel Whistle Down the Wind (1961), co-wrote the screenplay and story of…
Read moreMary Morris
Mary Morris is a Scottish-born Australian playwright. She has written several award winning plays including the hugely successful adaptation of Two Weeks With the Queen, which has enjoyed many international productions, Blabbermouth and Boss of the Pool. Morris also writes for adult and children’s television in Australia and the UK…
Read moreMary Orr
Mary Caswell Orr (1910 –2006) was an American actress and short story author whose “The Wisdom of Eve,” written in 1946, was the basis of the Academy Award-winning film All About Eve. In 1964, she and her husband, director-playwright Reginald Denham, adapted The Wisdom of Eve into a play (of…
Read moreMathias Halvorsen
Mathias Halvorsen (b. 1988) is a Norwegian pianist and composer, working internationally. In 2017, his first full-length opera, “Dracula”, was commissioned and premiered by Haugesund Chamber Opera. His second opera, based on Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None”, premiered in 2023. As a performing artist Mathias has been in…
Read moreMatias Faldbakken
Matias Faldbakken (født 1973 i Hobro, Danmark) er en norsk kunstner, romanforfatter og dramatiker. Han studerede på Kunstakademiet i Bergen og senere på Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main og udgives sommetider under pseudonymet Abo Rasul. Han er søn af Knut Faldbakken.
Read moreMats Huddén
Mats Erik Gustaf Huddén, born August 30, 1947, and dead March 1, 2019 was a Swedish actor, director and playwright. Has also appears under the pseudonym Matt Skin. Huddén trained at the National Theatre School in Malmö and has since 1971 permanently been employed at Östgötateatern in Norrköping-Linköping. He has…
Read moreMatt Conner
MATT CONNER (Music) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music Theatre from the Shenandoah Conservatory at Shenandoah University. NEVERMORE is his first full length musical score; the show premiered at Signature Theatre in 2006. Other incidental scores include GIRL FROM NO MAN’S LAND (Signature Theatre, 2005) and an original…
Read moreMaury Yeston
Maury Yeston is an American composer and lyricist educated at Yale and Clare College, Cambridge. He is best known for his stage musicals, which include: Broadway: NINE (1982) GRAND HOTEL (1989) and TITANIC (1997). Winner of the Tony Award for Best Original Score in 1982 (Nine), and 1997 (Titanic). Off-Broadway…
Read moreMax Frisch
Max Rudolf Frisch (1911 –1991) was a Swiss architect, playwright and novelist, regarded as highly representative of German literature after World War II. In his creative works Frisch paid particular attention to issues relating to problems of human identity, individuality, responsibility, morality and political commitment. His use of irony is…
Read moreMax Lambert
Max Lambert is one of Australia’s most talented composers, arrangers, musicians and musical directors. His composing credits include work for the Sydney, Melbourne and Queensland Theatre Companies, the Sydney Dance Company and The Australian Ballet. Max’s Musical Directorship credits include the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of The XXVII Olympiad, the…
Read moreMaxwell Anderson
One of the most important American playwrights of the early 20th century, Maxwell Anderson was born in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, in 1888. When Anderson wrote his first play, WHITE DESERT, he wrote it in verse because he was weary of “plays in prose that never lifted from the ground.” The play…
Read moreMaya Arad Yasur
Maya Arad Yasur (1976) is a dramaturge and playwright. She holds an M.A. In Dramaturgy from the University of Amsterdam where she graduated with distinction. Maya has been working as a production dramaturge in Europe and in Israel, specializing in devised theatre and documentary theatre. As a playwright her plays…
Read moreMel Shapiro
Mel Shapiro is an American theatre director and writer, college professor, and author. Trained at Carnegie-Mellon University, Shapiro began his professional directing career at the Pittsburgh Playhouse and then as resident director at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.. He was co-producing director at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and has…
Read moreMelchior Lengyel
Melchior Lengyel, born Lebovics Menyhért, (1880-1974) was a Hungarian writer, dramatist, and film screenwriter. He started his career as a journalist. He worked first in Kassa (Košice), then later in Budapest. His first play, A nagy fejedelem (The Great Prince) was performed by the Thalia Company in 1907. The Hungarian…
Read moreMelissa James Gibson
Melissa James Gibson is a Canadian playwright. She was born in Ottawa, Canada and studied at Columbia University, wherefrom she graduated in 1991. From 1992-1997 she studied drama at Yale School of Drama and had her first offer as a playwright from The Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago.She wrote the…
Read moreMeredith Willson
Robert Meredith Willson (May 18, 1902 – June 15, 1984) was an American composer, songwriter, conductor and playwright, best known for writing the book, music and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical The Music Man. He wrote three other Broadway musicals, composed symphonies and popular songs, and his film scores…
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