Authors
Neil Bartlett
Neil Bartlett is a leading British author and theatre-director who has been making work since 1982. His adaptations and translations of Camus, Dickens, Dumas, Genet , Kleist, Labiche, Marivaux, Moliere, Racine and Wilde have been performed around the world, including productions by The Royal Shakespeare Company , The National Theatre…
Read moreNeil Sedaka
NEIL SEDAKA (Music) was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 13, 1939. At the age of 13, he was introduced to16-year-old Howard Greenfield, an aspiring poet and lyricist. The two began writing songs together. The best-known hits of his early career are “The Diary”, “Oh! Carol”, “Stairway To Heaven”,…
Read moreNeil Simon
Marvin Neil Simon was born in the Bronx on July 4, 1927, and grew up in Washington Heights at the northern tip of Manhattan. He attended New York University briefly (1944-45) and the University of Denver (1945-46) before joining the United States Army where he began his writing career working…
Read moreNell Dunn
Amongst other things, she has written UP THE JUNCTION (1963) and POOR COW (1967). While UP THE JUNCTION is a series of stories/sketches focused upon the experience of working class women, POOR COW is more of a novella, and both works were praised and condemned for their realism and sexual…
Read moreNicholas Dante
Nicholas Dante (1941-1991) was an American dancer and writer, best known for the hit musical A Chorus Line.Born Conrado Morales in New York City to Puerto Rican parents. Dante’s early career was spent dancing in the chorus of Broadway musicals such as Applause and Ambassador. In 1975, he was approached…
Read moreNicholas Wright
Plays include THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY and THE DESERT AIR (both for the Royal Shakespeare Company); MRS. KLEIN, which opened in London (National Theatre and West End) in 1988 and in New York in 1995; and CRESSIDA (Almeida at the Albery, 2000). Adaptations: SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN…
Read moreNick Bicât
Nick Bicât has written over 150 scores and soundtracks for film, television and theatre. Twice nominated for a BAFTA, his film and television scores include A CHRISTMAS CAROL (George C Scott), THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (Antony Andrews/Sir Ian McKellen/Jane Seymour), WETHERBY (by Sir David Hare), and THE REFLECTING SKIN (by Philip…
Read moreNick Darke
Nick Darke born Nicholas Temperley Watson Darke (1948 – 2005) was best known as playwright but was also a writer, poet, lobster fisherman, environmentalist, beachcomber, politician, broadcaster, film-maker and chairman of St Eval Parish Council. He attended Newquay Grammar School and trained as an actor at the Rose Bruford College…
Read moreNick Enright
Nick Enright (1950-2003) was an Australian playwright. He was drama captain of St Ignatius’ College, Riverview in 1954, where, like Gerard Windsor and Justin Fleming, he was taught by Melvyn Morrow. At that school, he won the 1sts Debating Premiership in both 1966 and 1967. Enright received a Masters at…
Read moreNick Ward
Nick Ward was born in Geelong, Australia, in 1962. His first plays as writer/director won three Fringe First Awards at the Edinburgh Festival. He won the George Devine Award in 1988 for Apart From George (National Theatre, Edinburgh Festival, Royal Court, a national tour and New York). He subsequently wrote…
Read moreNicky Silver
Fast-talking Nicky Silver is a Philadelphia native who seemed work in regulation obscurity until rave reviews in 1993 and 1994 pushed him into the spotlight. His hilarious play PTERODACTYLS was produced by the Vineyard Theatre in New York in the fall of ’93 (Drama Desk nomination Best Play, Oppenheimer Prize,…
Read moreNico Bulgin Nico Defrost
Nico Defrost represents the first generation of Danish jungle Djs and has played at a countless number of raves in raw concrete dancehalls and last but not least on his own ground Christiania. As a guitarist Defrost has furthermore produced records for among others No Parking (Parkering Forbudt) and Vote…
Read moreNicolas Stemann
Nicolas Stemann studies German and philosophy at the University of Hamburg and direction at the Max Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna and at the Theatre Academy in Hamburg. He has worked as a director since 1995 and has directed at Akademietheater in Vienna, Hamburger Thalia Theater, Burgtheater in Vienna and Deutschen Theater…
Read moreNiels Brunse
Born in 1949 in Silkeborg, Denmark In 1969, Brunse made his debut as a translator and in 1980 his first book, MOSKVA TIL HVERDAG, was published. He has translated about 150 books, plays (including 14 classic plays of Shakespeare) and radio montages from English, German and Russian. He has written…
Read moreNiels Fredrik Dahl
Niels Fredrik Dahl was born in 1957 in Norway and now lives in Oslo. He has produced several collections of poetry, and began writing for the theatre in 1985 with TEN MINUTES FOR THREE MEN, which was performed at The Norwegian Festival for New Drama. His next play MEETING WITH…
Read moreNikolaj Cederholm
Nikolaj Cederholm (b. 1963) is a Danish playwriter, director, actor and theatre worker. As a teenager Cederholm attracted a lot of attention to a series of shows under the title The Desperate Renovation Show of Dr. Dante (Dr. Dantes Desperate Renovationsshow), which gradually constituted into a group with Cederholm as…
Read moreNikolaj Tarp
Nikolaj is a graduate of the National Film School of Denmark and has over twenty years of experience in the film and television industry as a producer, director, writer, production manager, and dramaturge. He has written several books, including the non-fiction book THE ANATOMY OF STORYTELLING, the youth book RONNIE,…
Read moreNikoline Werdelin
Nikoline Werdelin was born in Copenhagen 1960. From 1981-84, she studied at the design school, with drawing and graphics as her main subjects. In 1984 she won a comic competition in the Danish newspaper Politiken, in which her comics have succeeded ever since. It all started with the award winning…
Read moreNils Urban Oestlund
The Swedish, German and English speaking Nils Urban Oestlund was born April 15, 1953 in Sundsvall Sweden. After graduating as a pianist, he studied musicology in Uppsala. In 1981 he won first prize in the Wilhelm Freund accompaniment competition (awarded by the Royal Academy of Music). Until 1982 he was…
Read moreNina Valsø
Nina Valsø (1962 – 2002) was a Norwegian playwright and documentarist, who got attention for her television play, Sjakk Matt for which she an award from the European Council in 1989. She debuted as a playwright in 1993 with the play Drømmen Om Panama (The Dream About Panama), which was…
Read moreNino Haratischwili
Nino Haratischwili (b. 1983) is an award-winning novelist, playwright and theatre director and has been writing in Georgian and German since the age of twelve. From 1998 to 2003 she ran the free, bilingual theatre company (German, Georgian) “Fliedertheater” which had had several appearances at various Georgian theaters as well…
Read moreNis Pedersen
Nis emigrated from Ølgod to Copenhagen in 1986 to 20 years old. and he quickly became a sought-after singer for club and café jobs. In 1994 he made his debut as an actor in Dr. Dante’s “Gasoline” which he starred in the two times it was played in Frederiksberg. And…
Read moreNis-Momme Stockmann
Nis-Momme Stockmann was born in 1981 on Föhr. He studied Tibetan language and culture in Hamburg, and media studies in Odense, Denmark, then trained as a cook before studying creative writing for the stage at the University of the Arts in Berlin. In 2005, he won first prize at the…
Read moreNoah Haidle
NOAH HAIDLE (b. 1978) is a graduate of Princeton University and The Juilliard School, where he was a Lila Acheson Wallace playwright-in-residence. He is the recipient of three Lincoln Center Lecompte Du Nouy Awards, the 2005 Helen Merrill Award for emerging playwrights, the 2007 Claire Tow Award and an NEA/TCG…
Read moreNoel Langley
Noel Langley (1911 – 1980) was a successful novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director. While under contract to MGM he was one of the screenwriters for The Wizard of Oz. He was chosen for the job on the basis of his children’s story, The Tale of the Land of Green Ginger…
Read moreNorbert Ebel
Norbert Ebel (b. 1958). German playwright. Studied theater, Romance philology and literature at the Freie Universität in Berlin. During his studies, he worked as an assistant director and a lecturer at a performing rights agency. Since 1988, he has been active as a director and dramaturge at various theaters. Norbert…
Read moreNorman Cambell
Campbell, Norman (Kenneth). Producer, director, composer. His reputation was built as a producer of ballet for TV. He has received several awards, and he composed the music for the CBC musical comedies TAKE TO THE WOODS (1955), THE GAY DECEIVERS (1958), and THE WONDER OF IT ALL (1972). His CBC-TV…
Read moreNorman Krasna
Norman Krasna (1909 – 1984) was an American screenwriter, playwright, and film director. He is best known for penning screwball comedies, melodrama, and early films noir. Krasna also directed three films during a forty-year career in Hollywood. He garnered four Academy Award screenwriting nominations, winning once for 1943’s Princess O’Rourke,…
Read moreNorman L. Berman
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Berman served as composer-in-Residence at the celebrated Circle Repertory Company. He composed music scores for over 20 plays there ranging from premieres by Tennessee Williams, Lanford Wilson, Marsha Norman and Paul Zindel to Shakespearean and Chekhovian classics. Berman co-composed the score to the Broadway and…
Read moreÖdön von Horváth
Born December 9, 1901, in Fiume, Hungaria, Odon von Horvath studied in Budapest and Vienna before choosing Germany as his adopted homeland. Disturbed, however, by the political climate, Horvath took up playwriting and launched a vicious attack on fascism with plays such as Tales from the Vienna Woods ( 1930),…
Read moreOla Hörling
Ola Hörling is a trained musical artist from the Ballet Academy in Gothenburg (1989-1991) and works as a musical director, choreographer and theatre manager at the Opera in Scania and the Tonteatern. Amongst other things Hörling has written the dialouge and lyrics for the musical the Contact Ad (Kontaktannonsen) with…
Read moreOlafur Haukur Simonarson
Ólafur Haukur Símonarson, born in Reykjavík, 1947, is a playwright and novelist living in Reykjavík, Iceland. Símonarson mainly writes for the stage and is one of the most respected and popular dramatists in Iceland. He is a very versatile writer having also written numerous novels, collations of short stories and…
Read moreOle Lund Kirkegaard
Ole Lund Kirkegaard (1940 – 1979) was a Danish teacher and writer of children’s literature and youth literature. He mainly wrote about the interaction between adult and child. The main character in his books is usually an anti-hero. Several of his books have been adapted into film and theatre.
Read moreOscar Hammerstein
Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (1895 – 1960) was an American writer, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for “Best Original Song”, and much of his work is part of the unofficial Great…
Read moreOscar Straus
Oscar Nathan Straus (1870-1954) was a Viennese composer of operettas and film scores and songs. He also wrote about 500 cabaret songs, chamber music, and orchestral and choral works. His original name was actually Strauss, but for professional purposes he deliberately omitted the final ‘s’, since he wished not to…
Read moreOtto Harbach
Otto Abels Harbach was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on August 18, 1873. The lyricist of such notable standards as “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”, “No, No, Nanette”, “The Desert Song” and “Indian Love Call”, did not begin writing songs until his mid thirties. After graduating from Knox College…
Read moreÖzen Yula
Özen Yula was born in Eskisehir in 1965. He has a BA from the Economics Department of Hacettepe University in Ankara and an MA in Drama from Ankara University DTCF Department. He lived for a time in New York while writing his final thesis on “Postmodernism”. As a young drama…
Read moreP. G. Wodehouse
1881–1975 English-American novelist and humorist. After a short period, first working at a bank and then writing for a London newspaper, he became a full-time fiction writer. For over 70 years Wodehouse entertained readers with his comic novels and stories set in an England that is forever Edwardian and featuring…
Read morePaddy Chayefsky
US screenwriter and dramatist. A writer of great passion and insight, he established his reputation with naturalistic television plays, three of which – MARTY (1953), BACHELOR PARTY (1954) and THE CATERED AFFAIR (1955) – were adapted for cinema. His stage plays include THE TENTH MAN (1959) and GIDEON (1961).
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