Authors
Pasi Lampela
The dramatist and stage director Pasi Lampela (born in 1969) studied at the Finnish Academy of Theatre during 1994 – 1998 and is one of the most important Finnish writers. He has written several plays mostly dealing with existential questions of guilt, loss, death, sexuality and new beginnings.
Read morePatricia Cornelius
Patricia Cornelius is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Patricia’s most recent play, Shit, was presented at the 2017 Sydney Festival, following its 2015 Melbourne premiere as part of MTC’s Neon Season and its 2016 remount at 45Downstairs. Her play Savages (45Downstairs) won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Drama in 2014 and the…
Read morePatrick Cook
PATRICK COOK (Book and Lyrics) is a co-moderator (with Frederick Freyer) at the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop in New York, where he also serves as Artistic Coordinator. Their musical CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS was produced by Manhattan Theatre Club in 1999 (directed by Lynne Meadow) where it was nominated for…
Read morePatrick Garland
Patrick Garland (b.1935) is a British actor, writer, and director. Garland started Poetry International in 1963 with Ted Hughes and Charles Osborne. He was a director and producer for the BBC’s Music and Arts Department (1962–1974), and worked on its Monitor series. In 1964, he directed the Monitor film, “Down…
Read morePatrick Marber
Patrick Marber is an English playwright, director and screenwriter. He was educated at Wadham College in Oxford where he studied English. His work has been staged at some of the most important British theatres and several of his texts have been published.
Read morePatrick Meyers
Patrick Meyers was born in Phoenix, Arizona and grew up in Denver, Colorado. He attended Colorado State University at Fort Collins, where he began acting. He subsequently moved to Los Angeles and joined the Company Theatre. In 1972, he moved to Berkeley, California where he earned a degree in television…
Read morePaul Ableman
Novelist, playwright, screenwriter, Paul Ableman was born in 1927 in Leeds, England. The play GREEN JULIA was a notable success at the 1965 Edinburgh Festival, leading to an additional career writing plays for radio, television, and the stage. He has been chief fiction reviewer for The Spectator and The Evening…
Read morePaul Bartel
American actor, screenwriter and filmmaker Paul Bartel is perhaps best known as the director and star of the quirky sleeper EATING RAOUL (1982). Born in New York City, Bartel has been a film aficionado since childhood and entered the industry at age 13 working as an assistant animator for UPA.…
Read morePaul Dessau
Paul Dessau ( 1894-1979) was a German composer and conductor. From 1909 he majored in violin at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin. In 1912 he became répétiteur at the City Theatre (Stadttheater) in Hamburg. There he studied the works of the composers Felix von Weingartner and Arthur Nikisch and took…
Read morePaul Hammerich
Paul Hammerich (1927-1992) was a Danish journalist, editor and writer. He is especially known for his chronicle about Denmark, which reports the Danish history from World War 2. until the entry in the European Union. Hammerich is also known for his work as a co-writer on the TV series Huset…
Read morePaul Todd
Paul Todd is a professional singing, acting, music and piano teacher. He has been over 40 years in the business.He has been Musical Director at Scarborough Theatre in The Round with Sir Alan Ayckbourn and the Royal National Theatre, among many others. He has written the music for 19 West…
Read morePaul Zindel
Born in Staten Island, NY, in May of 1936. A celebrated playwright, Zindel took home an Obie Award for the play THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS in 1970, and the following year found himself honored with a Pulitzer Prize as well. It wasn’t long before Hollywood came…
Read morePedro Almodóvar
Pedro Almódovar Caballero (b. 1949) is a Spanish film director, scriptwriter and producer. He is the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his time. His film uses elements from pop culture and stylistically they are characterized by strong colors. Almodóvar never judges his characters doings, not matter what…
Read morePelle Sandstrak
Pelle Sandstrak was born and raised in Overhalla in the North of Norway. Among other things he has worked as an ambulance driver and standup comedian. Today he is active both as an actor as well as a scriptwriter.
Read morePer E. Fosser
Per E. Fosser has a long and various carrier behind him as a director, dramaturge and writer. He has worked as director in many European countries and has furthermore teached actors and opera singers in Scandinavia, Germany and France. As a writer he has worked as a playwright, editor and…
Read morePer Fly
Per Fly (b. 1960) is a Danish film director and scriptwriter. In 1993 he graduated from the Danish Film Academy together with Thomas Vinterberg and Ole Christian Madsen. His debut-film “The Bench” (Bænken) is the first part of his trilogy on Denmark, which describes the Danish social classes. The film…
Read morePer Hägglund
Per Hägglund is a Swedish rock musician. He began his carrier as a saxophone player in the rock band Ebba Grön for example on the songs Die Mauer and Born to be wild. After the bands breakup in 1983 Joakim Thåström, Stry Terrarie, Gunnar Ljungstedt and Hägglund continued their corporation…
Read morePer Olov Enquist
Per Olov Enquist (1934-2020) was born in a small town in Västerbotten in the northern part of Sweden. He studied literature at Uppsala University from 1955 to 1964. From the beginning of the 60s, Enquist worked as a literary and theater critic for several newspapers and magazines. He is considered…
Read morePer Schreiner
Per Schreiner (born 1965) is an award winning Norwegian author known for putting his characters in surprising situations with unmistakable accuracy. His writing is also characterized by a subtle, slightly absurd style, with short lines and black humor. He has written the screenplays for several short films, radio plays and…
Read morePeta Murray
Peta Murray is an Australian writer. She went to university and became a teacher. In 1989 she began writing fulltime. Best known as a playwright, she also writes short stories and is a dramaturg, director and occasional teacher of writing. Murray’s best-known play, Wallflowering, has had numerous productions in Australia…
Read morePeter Asmussen
Peter Asmussen (1957-2016) was an award winning writer, who had his debut in 1989 with the collection of short stories “Voice”. Since then he has written a number of prosaic works, film scripts, plays for radio and television as well as librettos. He was one of the most productive and…
Read morePeter Barnes
Peter Barnes (1931 – 2004) was an English Olivier Award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His most famous work is the play The Ruling Class, which was made into a 1972 film for which Peter O’Toole received an Oscar nomination.
Read morePeter Coke
Peter Coke (1913–2008) was an English actor, playwright and artist. Between 1958 and 1988 he wrote eleven plays, including his most famous BREATH OF SPRING, which was successful in both the West End and Broadway. Coke continued to take film roles and television parts, including a minor role as Lt.…
Read morePeter Flannery
Peter Flannery (b.1951) is a British playwright and screenwriter. He was educated at the University of Manchester and is best known for his work while a resident playwright at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Notable plays during his tenure include: Savage Amusement (1978), Awful…
Read morePeter Fristrup
Peter Fristrup was a Danish playwright originally trained as a photographer. He is best known for his comedy “Svend, Knud and Valdemar” (1887) which has been staged numerous times in Denmark.
Read morePeter Masterson
Masterson made his New York stage debut in CALL ME BY MY RIGHTFUL NAME in 1961 and has subsequently worked in films, theatres and TV. He was one of the husbands in THE STEPFORD WIVES (1974), earned praise in the leading role in the stage production THE TRIAL OF LEE…
Read morePeter Mills
PETER C. MILLS (Music, Lyrics, and Co-adapter) received the 2003 Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award from The ASCAP Foundation. Most recently, he wrote book, music, and lyrics for THE PURSUIT OF PERSEPHONE, (nominated for two Drama Desk Awards: Best Music, Best Orchestrations) a new musical about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s college…
Read morePeter Mills
PETER C. MILLS (Music, Lyrics, and Co-adapter) received the 2003 Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award from The ASCAP Foundation. Most recently, he wrote book, music, and lyrics for THE PURSUIT OF PERSEPHONE, (nominated for two Drama Desk Awards: Best Music, Best Orchestrations) a new musical about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s college…
Read morePeter Mills
PETER C. MILLS (Music, Lyrics, and Co-adapter) received the 2003 Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award from The ASCAP Foundation. Most recently, he wrote book, music, and lyrics for THE PURSUIT OF PERSEPHONE, (nominated for two Drama Desk Awards: Best Music, Best Orchestrations) a new musical about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s college…
Read morePeter Nichols
Peter Nichols (b. 1927) is an English writer of stage plays, film and television. Born in Bristol, England, he was educated at Bristol Grammar School, and then did his National Service in the RAF for three years, going on to study acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. While…
Read morePeter Oswald
His first stage piece THE SWANSONG OF IVANHOE WASTEWAY, a monologue, which he wrote while at university and was produced by his college, moved to Edinburgh and was performed at the Festival Club and subsequently at the Cafe Royal. It had its first London outing at the Brain Club, Soho…
Read morePeter Quilter
Peter Quilter is a West End and Broadway playwright whose plays have been translated into 27 languages and performed in over 40 countries. His shows have been performed in major theatres in cities across six continents, including London, Cape Town, Rome, Prague, Warsaw, Amsterdam, Rio de Janeiro, Toronto, Chicago, Madrid,…
Read morePeter Shaffer
Peter Shaffer was born in Liverpool, England, on May 15, 1926, along with his twin brother, Anthony, who would also become a writer. Shaffer studied history on a scholarship from Cambridge University, and worked a number of odd jobs including coal miner, bookstore clerk, and assistant at the New York…
Read morePeter Spies
Peter Spies (born 1966) is a Danish musician and composer mostly of musicals. He also delivers texts for revues.
Read morePeter Stone
Peter Stone (1930-2003) was the first writer to win the Tony, the Oscar and the Emmy. With 15 Broadway productions to his credit, he received Tony Awards for his books to 1776, WOMAN OF THE YEAR, THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES and TITANIC (all four also winning the Tony for Best…
Read morePeter Terson
Playwright, born in the UK. He worked as a teacher on Tyneside for 10 years before his first play, A NIGHT TO MAKE THE ANGELS WEEP, was produced in 1964. Other works include MIGHTY RESERVOY (1964), ZIGGER ZAGGER (1967), GOD LADS AT HEART (1971) and STRIPPERS (1984). He has been…
Read morePeter Turrini
Peter Turrini (b. 1944) is an Austrian leftist playwright. Turrini has been writing since 1971, when his play Rozznjogd premiered at the Volkstheater, Vienna. A versatile author, he has written plays, screenplays, poems, and essays. Rather than presenting an authentic picture of reality, in Turrini’s understanding it is the function…
Read morePeter Ullian
PETER ULLIAN (Book) counts among his awards: Two Gilman and Gonzalez-Falla Musical Theater Foundation Commendation Awards; the Kennedy Center/Fund for New American Plays Roger L. Stevens Award (IN THE SHADOW OF THE TERMINAL TOWER); Barrymore Award for Outstanding Overall Production of a Musical (3hree); Best Play of the 2000-2001 Los…
Read morePeter Ustinov
English actor, playwright, filmscript-writer, novelist and storyteller, born 1921, London; died 2004. Peter Alexander has made more than 50 films in Rome, London and Hollywood. He is a playwright, as highly appreciated in New York City as in London. His first book, ADD A DASH OF PITY, short stories, appeared…
Read morePeter Whelan
Peter Whelan is a British playwright. Whelan was born and raised in England. His works includes seven plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the first of which was CAPTAIN SWING, in 1979. Another was THE HERBAL BED which ran for six months at The Duchess Theatre from April to October…
Read morePetter Næss
Petter Næss (born 1960) is a Norwegian actor and film director well known for directing the Oscar nominated movie based on Ingvar Ambjørnsen’s character, Elling. He has also busied himself in the world of plays and revues, both as scriptwriter, director and actor. Since 1997 he has been employed as…
Read morePhelim McDermott
Phelim McDermott is a founder member and artistic director of Improbable Theatre, the company that has won awards and critical and public acclaim for their beautiful, funny and often moving shows which combine story telling, improvisation, puppetry and model-making. 70 HILL LANE, McDermott’s one man show won several major awards,…
Read morePhil Porter
Phil Porter (born 1977) is an English playwright, librettist and television writer, particularly known for his plays for young people. Phil Porter’s plays for adults include The Cracks In My Skin, which won a Bruntwood Award and was premiered at Manchester Royal Exchange, and Stealing Sweets And Punching People, which…
Read morePhilip Barry
U.S. playwright Philip Barry was primarily known for his comedies of life and manners among the socially privileged; his satirical, somewhat unconventional comedies characterized by witty and graceful dialogue and humorous contrasts of character or situation, such as HOLIDAY (1928), THE ANIMAL KINGDOM and THE PHILIDELPHIA STORY (1939).
Read morePhilip LaZebnik
PHILIP LAZEBNIK has written numerous television episodes and motion picture screenplays in Los Angeles and Europe. His screenwriting credits include Disney’s Pocahontas and Mulan, and DreamWorks’ Prince of Egypt and The Legend of El Dorado. For the past several years, Mr. LaZebnik has lived in Denmark, where he has written…
Read morePhilip Osment
Philip Osment acted with companies such as Gay Sweatshop and Shared Experience and then went on to work as a director and writer – until 1989 he was an artistic director of Gay Sweatshop directing POPPIES, COMPROMISED IMMUNITY and his own play THIS ISLAND’S MINE. His three plays set in…
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