Authors
Rick Elice
Eric “Rick” Elice (b. 1956) is an American writer and former stage actor. He earned his BA from Cornell University, his MFA from the Yale Drama School and is a Teaching Fellow at Harvard. With Marshall Brickman, Elice wrote the book for the Broadway musical Jersey Boys which received a…
Read moreRikke Wölck
Rikke Wölck (b. 1954) is a Danish actor, playwright and director. She graduated from the National Theatre School in 1977 and in the 1980s and 1990s she was associated with the Turnus Theatre, where she also staged shows for children. Since 1997, she has with great talent written and directed…
Read moreRoald Dahl
Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was a British writer of Norwegian origin, famous for both his children – and adult literature. His most known works are: Charley and the chocolate factory, James and the giant peach, The Witches and Kiss kiss.
Read moreRob Hartmann
ROB received his MFA from New York University’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, where he was a faculty member for 15 years. Rob’s musicals have been produced more than a dozen times across the USA. His most performed works include VANISHING POINT, which has had 14 productions in the USA…
Read moreRobert Bolt
Robert Bolt, born in Manchester in 1924, scored a triumph with his first West End play, FLOWERING CHERRY (1958), and another with A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (1960). The film version of the latter won five Oscars, including those for Best Film and for Bolt’s screenplay. It was remade for…
Read moreRobert E. Lee
Robert Edwin Lee (1918-1994) was an American playwright and lyricist. With his writing partner, Jerome Lawrence, Lee worked for Armed Forces Radio during World War II; Lawrence and Lee became the most prolific writing partnership in radio, with such long-running series as Favorite Story among others. Lawrence and Lee turned…
Read moreRobert Emmet Sherwood
Sherwood, Robert Emmet (1896-1955) was born in New Rochelle, New York, and educated at Harvard University. He was an editor (1919 – 28) for Vanity Fair and Life magazines before establishing himself as a playwright. His plays include WATERLOO BRIDGE (1929), REUNION IN VIENNA (1931), THE PETRIFIED FOREST (1935), IDIOT’S…
Read moreRobert Gilbert
Robert Gilbert (1899-1778) was a German composer of light music, a lyricist, a singer, and an actor. His father was Max Winterfeld, a composer and conductor who went by the pen name of Jean Gilbert. His brother was Henry Winterfeld, an author of children’s books.
Read moreRobert Lindsey Nassif
ROBERT LINDSEY-NASSIF (Composer, Lyricist, and Concept) composed the score for the Broadway production of HOLLYWOOD ARMS by Carol Burnett and Carrie Hamilton, directed by Harold Prince. Off-Broadway: Wrote the book, music and lyrics for OPAL (Richard Rodgers and AT&T Awards) and music, lyrics and additional dialogue for HONKY-TONK HIGHWAY (Backstage…
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ROBERT LINDSEY-NASSIF (Composer, Lyricist, and Concept) composed the score for the Broadway production of HOLLYWOOD ARMS by Carol Burnett and Carrie Hamilton, directed by Harold Prince. Off-Broadway: Wrote the book, music and lyrics for OPAL (Richard Rodgers and AT&T Awards) and music, lyrics and additional dialogue for HONKY-TONK HIGHWAY (Backstage…
Read moreRobert Morley
Robert Morley (1908 – 1992) was an English actor and playwright. As a playwright he co-wrote and adapted several plays for the stage, having outstanding success in London and New York with Edward, My Son, a gripping family drama written in 1947 (with Noel Langley) in which he played the…
Read moreRobert Stolz
Robert Stolz (1880-1975) was an Austrian composer and conductor. He was the twelfth child of the composer and music manager Jacob Stolz, studies music in Graz, Berlin and Vienna and finished his degree in music in 1896. In 1897 he became an opera conductor at Städische Theater Graz and afterwards…
Read moreRobert Taylor
ROBERT TAYLOR (Co-lyricist and Co-librettist) began writing poetry and lyrics at the age of eight. His love of music, languages, literature, and birds, has led him to a lifetime of study and travel. A graduate of Holland’s Royal Conservatory, Union College, the University of Bonn, and Princeton, he has taught…
Read moreRobert Thomas
Robert Thomas (1930-1989) was a French playwright. At the age of fourteen, Robert Thomas discovered a passion for contemporary theatre. He left home just before taking his baccalaureat, going to Paris so he could write and act in comedies there. He paid for his theatre course with his salary as…
Read moreRobin Glendinning
Robin Glendinning was born in Belfast. He taught English and History at Omagh Academy and RBAI. He was a founder member and election candidate for the Alliance Party in Northern Ireland and worked as a full-time party organizer for several years in the 1970s. He has written plays for stage,…
Read moreRobin Hawdon
Robin Hawdon’s comedies are amongst the most frequently produced around the world. His name is perhaps better known abroad than in his native Great Britain. At any one moment there are likely to be a dozen or so productions of various titles, old and new, running in various countries and…
Read moreRobin Maugham
Robin Maugham was an author of short stories, novels, non-fiction, plays, and screenplays. He was an officer in World War II and a barrister-at-law. His success was not without struggle. In the preface to his first autobiography, ESCAPE FROM THE SHADOWS, Maugham describes the three shadows of his life: his…
Read moreRobyn Archer
Robyn Archer is a singer, writer, director, artistic director, and public advocate of the arts. We remember her from her stage successes such as A STAR IS TORN and TONIGHT LOLA BLAU: some know her only as one of the world’s foremost exponents of German cabaret songs. She is known…
Read moreRodney Ackland
Rodney Ackland was born in 1908 in Westcliffe-on-Sea, Essex and studied at London’s Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art. He started his theatrical career as an actor in THE LOWER DEPTHS (1924). His career as a writer began when his play, IMPROPER PEOPLE, was produced at the Arts…
Read moreRoger McDougall
Roger MacDougall (1910 – 1993) began writing the occasional screenplay in the late 30s, working both alone and in collaboration with others. Most of his plays were produced during the 50s. As a screenwriter, his best-known films are The Man in the White Suit (for which he received a 1952…
Read moreRoger Parsley
Roger took a teaching degree at Exeter University, and afterRoger Parsley Playwright serving as Head of Drama and Head of English for a few years at Secondary level, he trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. He then became a Drama Adviser in Essex, being based…
Read moreRoger Peña
Roger Peña, born in Barcelona in 1959, is a playwright and director. His work ranges over all genres. His first play, ABSOLUTE POWER (a political thriller about corruption), was presented during 2012-2013-2014 in Barcelona, Madrid and on tour all over Spain, with an enormous success and great reviews. He has…
Read moreRoger Vitrac
(1899-1952) Poet and playwright, born in Pinsac, SWC France. He displayed a grating humour in his plays, of which the masterpiece remains VICTOR OU LES ENFANTS AU POUVOIR (1928), which opened the way to the new theatre.
Read moreRoland Dubillard
Dubillard (b. 1923) is a French playwright. Together with Obaldia, Weingarten and Vauthier, he belonged to the second wave of Absurdist writers, who sought to renew the language of theatre by verbal experiments. His plays bear the influence of his earlier career as an actor performing cabaret sketches and as…
Read moreRoland Topor
Much-loved in Europe but little-known in the United States, iconoclastic Roland Topor utilized different media in which to share his absurdist and often disturbing view of the world. An illustrator, graphic designer, author, playwright, filmmaker, song writer, actor, and creator of innovative television programming, he was at his best when…
Read moreRolf Heim
Rolf Heim was born in Switzerland in 1961 and took a degree in acting during 1984-198 in Sweden. Later on (1989-1992), he extended his education by taking a course in directing at The School of Stage Arts, Theatre Cantabile in Denmark. He has staged several plays and operas at many…
Read moreRon Blair
Ron Blair was educated at Christian Brother’s College, Lewisham. He first became involved with theatre during his student years at Sydney University, particularly through the Sydney University Dramatic Society (SUDS). After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts Blair worked for several years as an advertising copywriter before joining the ABC…
Read moreRona Munro
Rona Munro (born 7 September 1959, Aberdeen) is a Scottish writer. She has written plays for theatre, radio, and television.Her most recent credits include the theatre play Iron which has received many productions worldwide. In 2006 the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith presented Munro’s adaptation of Richard Adams’ classic book, Watership Down.…
Read moreRonald Duncan
Ronald Duncan (1914-1982) was a British playwright and poet whose plays express the contrast between traditional religious faith and the materialism and scepticism of modern times.
Read moreRonald Millar
Sir Ronald Graeme Millar (1919-1998) was an English actor, speechwriter and playwright. He made his first appearance on the stage in 1940, and was seen in a number of productions before devoting himself entirely to playwriting. His works includes: Murder from Memory (1942), The Other Side (1946), Frieda (1946), Champagne…
Read moreRonald Ribman
Ronald Burt Ribman (b. 1932) is an American author, poet and playwright. Ribman’s poetry first appeared in literary magazines as The Beloit Poetry Journal and The Colorado Quarterly. Ribman’s first commercial publication was an article, co-authored with his father, in the April 1964 issue of Harper’s Magazine, titled “The Poor…
Read moreRoy Smiles
Roy Smiles (b. 1966) is a British playwright and singer-songwriter from West London. He is also an occasional actor. Smiles is the author of twenty four produced stage plays. He has had plays staged in the UK, US, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Israel and Sweden. As an actor he…
Read moreRupert Holmes
RUPERT HOLMES (Book, Additional Lyrics) Broadway: THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD (Tony Awards to Holmes for book, music and lyrics, Tony to EDWIN DROOD for Best Musical; identical honours New York Drama Desk; Outer Critics Circle, Best Musical), ACCOMPLICE (Edgar Award, Mystery Writers of America), SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, SAY GOODNIGHT, GRACIE…
Read moreRussel Crouse
Russel Crouse was born in Findlay, Ohio, in 1893 and died in 1966. In 1933, Crouse wrote his first Broadway show, collaborating with Corey Ford on the musical comedy HOLD YOUR HORSES. From 1934 on, he wrote only with Lindsay. The Lindsay & Crouse partnership stands today as the longest…
Read moreRuth Berlau
Ruth Berlau (1906-1974) was a Danish actress, director, photographer and playwright. She was member of the Danish communist party for a period of time and was known for her close corporation with Brecht. She was the founder of Bertolt-Brecht-Archiv in Berlin.
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