Authors
Samuel Adamson
Samuel Adamson was Pearson Television Writer in Residence at the Bush Theatre, London, in 1997/8 and taught Dramatic Writing at Duke University, North Carolina, in 2000. His plays include CLOCKS AND WHISTLES (Bush Theatre, London), GRACE NOTE (Peter Hall Company/Old Vic Theatre, London), DRINK, DANCE, LAUGH AND LIE (Bush/Channel 4),…
Read moreSamuel Beckett
Beckett was the first of the absurdists to win international fame. His works have been translated into over twenty languages, and in 1969 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1945 he began his most prolific period as a writer. In the five years that followed, he wrote…
Read moreSamuel Spewach
Samuel Spewack (1899 – 1971) was born in the Ukraine. He attended Stuyvesant High School in New York City and then received his degree from Columbia College. His wife-to-be, Bella Spewak, worked as a journalist for socialist and pacifist newspapers such as The New York Call. Her work drew attention…
Read moreSamuel Taylor
Samuel Taylor (1912–2000) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He was best known for writing the play SABRINA FAIR in 1953 and co-writing its successful film adaptation SABRINA the following year. In 1955, he won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay. His early…
Read moreSandy Rustin
SANDY RUSTIN is an actress and award-winning playwright named by American Theatre Magazine as one of the “Most-Produced Playwrights of the ’22-’23 season.” Her stage adaptation of the film CLUE is one of the most-produced plays in the U.S., with over 3,000 productions worldwide. Her original comedy, THE COTTAGE, premiered…
Read moreSandy Wilson
Sandy Wilson (born May 19, 1924) is a British composer and lyricist, best known for his musical, THE BOY FRIEND (1954). Wilson was born in Sale, England, and was educated at Harrow School and Oriel College, Oxford. Most of his work for the stage was material for revues, such as…
Read moreSarah Daniels
British playwright. She started her playwriting career at the Royal Court, London. She had responded to a call from the London listings magazine, Time Out, for readers to send in plays, but the play that she sent in was rejected. However, she was given some encouragement and she wrote a…
Read moreSarah Kane
Sarah Kane (1971 – 1999) was an English playwright. Her plays deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture — both physical and psychological — and death. They are characterized by a poetic intensity, pared-down language, exploration of theatrical form and, in her earlier work, the use of…
Read moreSarah Phelps
Sarah Phelps is a British television, radio, film and freelance playwright who was working for the Royal Shakespeare Company when she took part in a BBC initiative to find new writers. She then wrote for the World Service Soap opera Westway before joining the BBC1 soap opera EastEnders in 2002.…
Read moreSarah Schlesinger
SARAH SCHLESINGER (Lyrics and Co-bookwriter) co-wrote, with composer Mike Reid, the musical adaptation of THE BALLAD OF LITTLE JO, which opened to rave reviews at the Bridewell Theatre in London. The team also created DIFFERENT FIELDS, a contemporary opera about football commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera Guild and Opera Memphis.…
Read moreScott McPherson
Scott McPherson, the gay author of this award winning play MARVIN’S ROOM died of complications resulting from AIDS on Nov.7, 1992. While MARVIN’S ROOM is not specifically about AIDS, it presents a picture of a care giving community which is very appropriate for AIDS victims, their families, and loved ones.…
Read moreScott Wentworth
Scott Wentworth has garnered critical acclaim in two countries for his acting and directing, and is now making a multinational reputation for himself as a playwright. His latest play, ENTER THE GUARDSMAN (co-written with Marion Adler and Craig Bohmler), won Denmark’s 1996 Musical of the Year, one of the highest-paying…
Read moreSean Mathias
Sean Matthias is perhaps best known as a director and for his relationship with Ian McKellen. He wrote A PRAYER FOR WINGS in the 1980s, when it was hailed as the work of a major new Welsh playwriting talent. It won plaudits and prizes at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1985.…
Read moreSean O’Casey
No discussion of Irish drama is complete without Sean O’Casey’s almost photographically real pictures of Irish tenement life. The late Professor J.W. Cunliffe of Columbia University went so far as to say that O’Casey was “the greatest discovery since World War I, not only of the Abbey Theater but of…
Read moreSebastian
Sebastian, alias Knud Christensen (1949), is one of Denmark’s most popular artists. During the 30 years of working as an active musician, Sebastian has been behind a line of impressive music productions including albums, soundtracks and musicals. More than 2 million people have seen the official performances of his musicals…
Read moreSelina Fillinger
SELINA FILLINGER (b. 1994), American playwright and actress, who graduated from Northwestern University’s Acting Sequence and Playwriting Module in 2016. During her studies, she has won several awards for her playwriting and with her professional debut, FACELESS from 2016, she has made it clear, that she is a dramatist to…
Read moreSerge Lama
Serge Lama (b. in Bordeaux on 11 February 1943) is a French singer and songwriter. He was born in Bordeaux. His most famous song is Je Suis Malade, written with Alice Dona. It has been performed by a number of artists including Lara Fabian and Dalida. In 1971, Lama represented…
Read moreSergi Belbel
Sergi Belbel i Coslado born 1963 is a Catalan-Spanish playwright, and as of 2005 the director of the Teatre Nacional de Cataluny. Born in Terrassa, Belbel’s first play was Calidoscopios Y FAROS DE HOY in 1986. He became well known with his play CARICIES in 1992. One year later he…
Read moreShaun Davey
Shaun Davey is one of Ireland’s leading professional composers. In UK Theatre he has been composer to many Royal Shakespeare Company productions, including THE TEMPEST, KING LEAR, A WINTERS TALE and PERICLES, and in the USA his music for JAMES JOYCE’S THE DEAD was nominated for a Tony Award. Other…
Read moreShelagh Delaney
1939–, English playwright, b. Salford, Lancashire. Her first play, written when she was only 17, was A TASTE OF HONEY (1958), about a young working-class girl who refuses to conform to her dreary surroundings. It was a critical and popular success and was made into a film. After her second…
Read moreShimon Wincelberg
Shimon Wincelberg (1924 – 2004) was an American television writer and Broadway playwright. Born in Kiel, Germany, he wrote for many 1960s and 1970s television shows including Naked City, Mannix, Police Woman, Star Trek (“The Galileo Seven” and “Dagger of the Mind”), Gunsmoke, Have Gun — Will Travel, The Paper…
Read moreSibylle Berg
Sibylle Berg is a German writer and playwright. She was a puppeteer before she left Weimar for West Germany in 1984. She studied for a short time at the artist’s school Scuola Dimitri in Tessin and eventually worked in a number of jobs. In 1984 she started her career in…
Read moreSigurd Barrett
Sigurd Barrett was born 1967,has MSc Phil in Musicology from the University of Aarhus, debuted as a professional musician at age 12. Have formed 3 bands and played more than 3000 concerts in 17 countries, including as an entertainer with The Sigurd Barrett Piano Show for the adult audience. He…
Read moreSigurdur Pálsson
Born 30. 7. 1948 at Skinnastadur, Iceland. Died 19. 9. 2017. Drama and literature studies in, Sorbonne, Paris, obtaining maîtrise and D.E.A. Diploma in cinema from C.L.C.F. He worked mainly as a writer and translator and also as University professor. Fifteen books of poetry were published between 1975 to 2012.…
Read moreSimon Bent
Simon Bent was educated as an actor at The University of Essex and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has written a number of plays. In 1996 he reached an artistic peak with GOLDHAWK ROAD. The play SUGAR SUGAR was staged at The Bush Theatre during 1998…
Read moreSimon Mendes da Costa
Simon Mendes da Costa worked for several years as a computer programmer before he started training as an actor at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. The comedy TABLE FOR ONE is his first play.
Read moreSir Ronald Harwood
Ronald Harwood (b. 1934) is an author, playwright and screenwriter. He is most noted for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for The Dresser (for which he was nominated for an Oscar) and The Pianist, for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best…
Read moreSnoo Wilson
Snoo Wilson (born Andrew James Wilson August 2, 1948) is a dramatist and theater director. Wilson began to attract attention with his plays Pignight, (1971) a nightmarish fantasy about a mentally disturbed WW II soldier, who while on a Lincolnshire pig farm, believes that pigs are about to take over…
Read moreSören Olsson
Sören Olsson (b. 1964) is a Swedish writer, who has written youth novels and TV-series together with his cousin Anders Jacobson. Furthermore the two cousins have written pop music together in their band Hemliga byrån.
Read moreSøren Dahl
Søren Dahl is educated as a music teacher from the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music in 1984, afterwards he has studied musical and film composition in London. Dahl is behind a numerous of music compositions and events around the Danish theatres and has furthermore written music for TV and film…
Read moreSpiro Scimone
Spiro Scimone (b. 1964) is an Italian author and actor born in Messina, who in 1994 founded the theatrical company Scimone Sframeli together with actor/director Francesco Sframeli. In the same year he wrote his first play Nunzio in Messina dialect, which won the award “New Writers” and the Gold Medal…
Read moreStaffan Götestam
Staffan Götestam is an actor, director, producer and playwright and the person behind more than 50 theatre- and musical productions. The part as Jonatan in the movie The Brothers Lionheart made him famous both in Sweden and abroad and lead to a long term cooperation with Astrid Lindgren and productions…
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