Authors
Mette Søndergaard Nielsen
Mette Søndergaard Nielsen (b. 1987) is a Danish playwright working with satire and dramady as a playwright and actress in theatre and fictional TV. She is a part of the satire group FLÆS and did the acclaimed shows WHY DON’T WE TALK ABOUT ME and WAITING FOR PORN, directed by…
Read moreMichael Bennett
Michael Bennett (8. april 1943 – 2. juli 1987) var en amerikansk musical teaterinstruktør, forfatter, koreograf og danser. Han vandt syv Tony Awards for sin koreografi og instruktion af Broadway-shows, og blev nomineret til yderligere elleve. Bennett koreograferede PROMISES, PROMISES, FOLLIES og COMPANY. I 1976 vandt han Tony Award for…
Read moreMichael Cacoyannis
Educated in Greece and London, Cyprus-born Michael Caccoyannis launched his professional career as a lawyer. Caccoyannis’ first significant international success was ELECTRA (1961), a fluid adaptation of the venerable Euripides play. His biggest hit was ZORBA THE GREEK (1964).
Read moreMichael Christofer
After a decade of acting in the theater, Michael Cristofer found fame, as well as won the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony for writing the 1977 Broadway play THE SHADOW BOX, a character piece about three terminally-ill patients. The play had its initial premiere in 1975 at the Mark Taper…
Read moreMichael Colby
MICHAEL COLBY (Lyricist and Co-librettist) is the librettist/lyricist of such musicals as CHARLOTTE SWEET (Drama Desk Award nomination), NORTH ATLANTIC (Show Business Award), TALES OF TINSELTOWN, MRS. McTHING, LUDLOW LADD, DELPHI OR BUST, and THEY CHOSE ME! He was chief writer for Drama Desk Award-winning New Amsterdam Theatre Company, and…
Read moreMichael Colby
MICHAEL COLBY (Lyricist and Co-librettist) is the librettist/lyricist of such musicals as CHARLOTTE SWEET (Drama Desk Award nomination), NORTH ATLANTIC (Show Business Award), TALES OF TINSELTOWN, MRS. McTHING, LUDLOW LADD, DELPHI OR BUST, and THEY CHOSE ME! He was chief writer for Drama Desk Award-winning New Amsterdam Theatre Company, and…
Read moreMichael Cooney
Michael was born and raised in London, England, but has made his home in America. He has written four plays: Cash On Delivery!, Murder in Mind, Point of Death and Tom, Dick and Harry, written with his father, Ray Cooney. Michael has written several feature films including the thrillers Identity (starring John Cusack and Ray Liotta)…
Read moreMichael Ende
Michael Ende was born in 1929 in GarmischPartenkirchen and died near Stuttgart in 1995. It was more by chance that he started writing for children, when he was asked to write the text for a picture book. Michael Ende let his love of telling stories take over and the result…
Read moreMichael Frayn
English dramatist, columnist, reporter and translator Michael Frayn was born on September 8, 1933, in the suburbs of London. His mother, a once promising young violinist, died when Frayn was only 12, and his father, a rep for an asbestos and roofing materials firm, was forced to withdraw the young…
Read moreMichael Jacobs
Michael Jacobs is a writer and producer whose work has appeared on Broadway, Off Broadway, television and film. He is the creator/producer of several popular television series including Boy Meets World, Dinosaurs, Charles in Charge and My Two Dads. His television shows have won the Emmy, People’s Choice, Parent’s Choice,…
Read moreMichael Kunze
Michael Kunze is a lyricist and librettist of the musical theater. His hit shows ELISABETH, DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES, MOZART! and REBECCA have reached an audience of more than 16 million people in many countries. The worldwide box office gross of his works has passed the 1 billion mark. As…
Read moreMichael McClure
Michael McClure was born October 20, 1932 in Marysville, Kansas. McClure published his first book, PASSAGE, in 1956, a year after the reading at Six Gallery. He has produced 16 books of poetry, six collections of essays, two novels, and ten plays, including the Obie-winning JOSEPHINE: THE MOUSE SINGER and…
Read moreMichael Melski
Michael Melski is an award-winning playwright and filmmaker whose works for the stage have been published and produced across Canada. His Merritt and Dora-nominated Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad was a hit at Toronto’s Factory Theatre, named one of the Top Ten Plays of The Year by the Toronto Star, has toured Canada twice,…
Read moreMichael Meschke
Michael Meschke (b. 1931) is a Swedish puppeteer artist, director and theatre manager; born in Danzig. In 1958 he founded the Marionetteatern in Stockholm. He has created a new, internationally oriented puppeteer tradition in Sweden with avant-garde intentions. His ensemble has toured all over the world.
Read moreMichael Palin
Michael Palin was born on May 5th 1943. Already in his early years he played in a school production of Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL, where he fell off the stage. He appeared in several theatres, mainly playing in comedies. He studied at the Oxford University and received a 2nd…
Read moreMichael Pertwee
Michael Pertwee (1916 – 1991) was a British playwright and screenwriter. Among his credits were episodes of The Saint, Danger Man, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, B-And-B , Ladies Who Do, and many other films and TV series.
Read moreMichael Shaieb
MICHAEL SHAIEB (Music) Before moving to New York, he performed for 11 years as a classical pianist in Detroit. Film & TV: original music for the Vh1 documentary LAST DAYS OF LEFT EYE, background music for various prime-time television shows, end credits song for the short film WAKING DREAMS starring…
Read moreMichael Shurtleff
Chales Gordon Shurtleff, også kendt som Michael Shurtleff, (1929-2007), var en kæmpe styrke I 1960-1970’ernes casting på Broadway. Han skrev Auditiona, en berømt bog for skuespillere om optagelsesprøve-processen, samt en række enaktere og skuespil.
Read moreMichael Stewart
Michael Stewart (1924 –1987) was an American playwright and librettist. Born Michael Stuart Rubin in Manhattan, Stewart attended Queens College, and is a graduate of Yale School of Drama with a Master of Fine Arts from 1953. His early work was writing sketches for the revues The Shoestring Revue (1955),…
Read moreMichael Weller
Michael Weller is a playwright who is best known for his plays MOONCHILDREN and LOOSE ENDS.
Read moreMichel Legrand
Michel Jean Legrand (born 24 February 1932) is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist. His father Raymond Legrand was a conductor and composer renowned for hits such as Irma la douce and his mother, Marcelle Der Mikaëlian (sister of conductor Jacques Hélian), who married Legrand Senior in 1929,…
Read moreMichel Tremblay
Michel Tremblay was born in a working-class neighbourhood of Montreal. He realized while still very young that he had a passion for writing. At high school he wrote poems, plays and novels. At 17 he was writing fantasy stories that he later published under the title CONTES POUR BUVEURS ATTARDÉS.…
Read moreMika Myllyaho
Mika Myllyaho (born 1966) is an award winning Finnish director and playwright. He graduated as a stage director from the Theatre Academy of Finland in 1999 and has since worked at several prominent Finnish theatres.
Read moreMikael Salling
PIANIST, BANDLEADER, COMPOSER / ARRANGER ttrained at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music rhythmic line 1991-95, Diploma in 1997. Conductor at Odense Theatre since 1998: A CHRISTMAS CAROL, CHRISTMAS IN GAMMELBY, PARTY IN LØNNEBERG, NØDDEBO PRÆSTEGÅRD, RONJA, THE ROBBER’S DAUGHTER, SOPHISTICATED LADIES. Has composed music for: A CHRISTMAS CAROL and…
Read moreMike Cullen
At the age of sixteen Mike Cullen left school to work in the coal mines as an apprentice electrician, with the goal of funding a future career as a rock star. He became a rock ‘n’ roll has-been shortly after, went back into education and, in 1992, graduated from Edinburgh…
Read moreMike Leigh
Mike Leigh (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and did his early acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He began as a theatre director and playwright in the 1960s. In the 1970s…
Read moreMike Reid
MIKE REID (Co-bookwriter, Music) co-wrote, with Sarah Schlesinger, the musical adaptation of THE BALLAD OF LITTLE JO, which opened to rave reviews at the Bridewell Theatre in London, July 2003 and was hailed by Daily Telegraph critic Domenic Cavendish as “two and a half hours of unmitigated brilliance.” Sarah and…
Read moreMitch Leigh
Mitch Leigh (born January 30, 1928) is an American musical theatre composer and theatrical producer best known for the musical MAN OF LA MANCHA. Leigh was born in Brooklyn, New York as Irwin Michnick. He graduated from Yale in 1951 with a Bachelor of Music, and in 1952 received his…
Read moreMogens Dam
Mogens Dam (1897-1979) was a Danish journalist, painter, writer and revue writer. Dam was educated both at the Royal Danish Academy of Art and at the School of Journalism. From 1918-1970 he worked in some periods for almost all the Danish newspapers, furthermore he was co-writer and drawer of the…
Read moreMogens Pedersen
Mogens Pedersen (born 1931) is a Danish stage director, theatre manager and actor.
Read moreMogens Rukov
Mogens Rukov (1943) is a Danish screenwriter, playwright and professor at the Danish Film School in Copenhagen. He achieved a university degree in Nordic philology and film in 1974, shortly after he started teaching in screenwriting. Rukov is notorious known and much respected for shaping the new generations of Danish…
Read moreMoisés Kaufman
Moisés Kaufman (b. 1963) is a playwright, director and founder of Tectonic Theater Project. He is the author of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, 33 Variations and is perhaps best known for writing The Laramie Project with other members of Tectonic Theater Project. He was born and…
Read moreMolière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin better known as Molière (1622 – 1673) was a French writer and considered by many to be the world’s biggest comedy writer. Moliére studied with the Jesuits at Collége de Clermont and by the age of 21 he staged his first play, which ran for three years. In…
Read moreMorris Gleitzman
Morris Gleitzman (born 9 January 1953) is an English-born Australian writer.Morris Gleitzman has also gained recognition for sparking an interest in politically controversial children’s books like Two Weeks with the Queen. He has collaborated on children’s series with another Australian children’s author, Paul Jennings. Gleitzman has also published three collections…
Read moreMorten Korch
Morten Luther Gudmund Korch (1876-1954) was a Danish writer. He wrote more than 123 books, sold for more than 6 millions in Denmark and received Ridderkorset (the cross of an order of chivalry) in 1937. He was a popular writer, whose environments was build on pre-industrial traditions; farming and small…
Read moreMorti Vizki
Morti Vizki (1963 – 2004) was an award winning Danish poet, novelist and playwright. He debuted in 1984 and wrote in all 10 collections of poems, 4 novels, 11 radio plays and 7 stage plays. The strong and subtle plays treat themes like lust for power, civilization dissolution and sexual…
Read moreMuriel Resnik
Muriel Resnik (1927-1995) was an American novelist and playwright best known for her comedy “Any Wednesday”. She wrote several novels, including “Life Without Father,” “House Happy” and “The Girl in the Turquoise Bikini.” She later wrote “Son of Any Wednesday,” a reflection on the production of the play. In 1992,…
Read moreN. C. Hunter
Norman Charles Hunter (18 September 1908 – 19 April 1971), born in Derbyshire, England, was in the 1950s and early 1960s, one of the leading “traditionalist” dramatists of the London theater.
Read moreN. J. Crisp
Norman James Crisp (1923-2005) known as a writer only by his initials and surname, N.J. Crisp, was a prolific British television writer, dramatist and novelist. In the sixties after writing some single dramas, Crisp moved to writing for serials and turned out many scripts for many BBC series including Compact,…
Read moreNan Knighton
Nan Knighton is an American poet, playwright and lyricist. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, she is a 1965 graduate of Bryn Mawr School, with an undergraduate degree from Sarah Lawrence College and a master’s degree in creative writing from Boston University. She wrote for the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting…
Read moreNancy Cassaro
Is probably best known for her stage show TONY AND TINA’S WEDDING. Nancy wrote the show for her theatre company, Artificial Intelligence, and starred in the 1st production in New York.
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