Authors
Sören 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.
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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…
Read moreSteen Engberg Koerner
Steen Koerner (born 1968) started dancing electric boogie in 1982. Today, he is a prominent hip hop director, choreographer and dancer who has taken hip hop dance into mainstream theatre. He founded in 1987, with buddy and colleague Kenneth Fogel, the hip hop group Out of Control, quickly became active…
Read moreStefan Griebl Franzobel
Franzobel was born Franz Stefan Griebel in 1967 in the Upper Austrian Vöcklabruck. Following the Matura he went to Vienna in 1986 to study German Studies and History. During his studies, which he completed in 1994 with a Diplom, he studied painting and conceptual art intensively, and made his first…
Read moreStephen Belber
Stephen Belber was educated at Julliard as actor and playwright. He zoomed into the spotlight when he co-wrote as well as starred in The Tectonic Theatre Project THE LARAMIE PROJECT that played to full houses over several months Off-Broadway. Likewise, the play TAPE that was produced by The Actor’s Theatre…
Read moreStephen Clark
Stephen Clark’s play, STRIPPED won a Jefferson Award in Chicago 2003 (Circle Theatre). Other plays include TAKEAWAY (Lyric Hammersmith and national tour) and MAKING WAVES at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough. Stephen became involved with music theatre after studying with Stephen Sondheim at Oxford University in 1991. His first musical,…
Read moreStephen Jeffreys
Stephen Jeffreys is a British playwright. His plays include Like Dolls or Angels (1977) (Sunday Times Playwriting Award at the National Student Drama Festival); Carmen 1936 (Edinburgh Fringe Festival Fringe First in 1984); Valued Friends (1990, Hampstead Theatre); The Clink (1999); The Libertine (1994) – also a screenplay filmed with…
Read moreStephen Mallatratt
Scarborough-based Stephen forged a writing career later in life and was a regular scriptwriter for CORONATION STREET for much of the 1990’s. His excellently-crafted and witty scripts are greatly appreciated by Street fans. Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation of Susan Hill’s best selling novel WOMAN IN BLACK combined theatre and film noir.
Read moreStephen Schwartz
Stephen Schwartz was born in New York City on March 6, 1948. He studied piano and composition at the Juilliard School of Music while in high school and graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1968 with a B.F.A. in Drama. Upon coming back to live in New York City, he…
Read moreStephen Sinclair
Stephen Sinclair is a popular successful playwright, and a screenwriter and poet. He was born in Auckland and educated at Westlake BHS and Auckland and Victoria universities (BA in Maori studies 1979). He worked as a researcher for the Maori studies department for two years, and subsequently as a translator…
Read moreStephen Sondheim
American composer and lyricist, born in New York City. As a young man, he studied lyric writing with Oscar Hammerstein 2d, and early in his career he wrote lyrics for Leonard Bernstein’s WEST SIDE STORY (1957) and collaborated with Jule Styne in the writing of Gypsy (1959). Later he composed…
Read moreStephen Stahl
Stephen Stahl is an internationally renowned writer and director, Mr. Stahl received his early straining at the Hedgerow Theatre under Jasper Deeter and Rose Schulman, then moved to New York and studied with Lee Strasberg at the Actor’s Studio. Production and directorial credits include over 150 stage shows. The West…
Read moreStephen Trask
Stephen Trask is an award-winning musician and composer. He was the music director and house band member at the New York drag club Squeezebox, where he performed with stars like Debbie Harry, Lene Lovich and Joey Ramone, as well as various drag queens. Trask composed the music and lyrics for…
Read moreStephen Weiner
STEPHEN WEINER (Music) counts among his Off-Broadway and Regional credits: Manhattan Theater Club’s NEWYORKERS, Prospect Theater’s IRON CURTAIN, Village Theater’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN NEW JERSEY, SPITTIN’ IMAGE at the Forum Theater, “An Evening With Comden & Green” at Carnegie Hall hosted by Michael Feinstein, “The Music of Stephen…
Read moreSteven Berkoff
English dramatist and actor. He is known for his original satirical plays and his roles as film villains. His plays include EAST (1975), GREEK (1979), and WEST (1983). He formed the London Theatre Group in 1968 as a vehicle for his own productions, which have included his adaptations of Kafka’s…
Read moreSteven Sater
Steven Sater is an American poet, playwright, lyricist, television writer, and screenwriter. Born in Evansville, Indiana, Sater attended Washington University in St. Louis as an undergraduate. After completing his graduate program, Sater took a position with a New York literary agent, but continued to write plays on the side. Soon…
Read moreStewart Parker
James Stewart Parker (1941 – 1988) was a Northern Irish poet and playwright. He was born in Sydenham, Belfast, of a Protestant working class family. While still in his teens, he contracted bone cancer and had a leg amputated. He studied for an MA in Poetic Drama at Queen’s University,…
Read moreSue Townsend
Sue Townsend is the creator of Britain’s best loved and bestselling diarist, Adrian Mole. She was born in Leicester in 1946, is married and has four children and five grandchildren and still lives in Leicester. In 1978 she joined a Writers Group at the Phoenix Art Centre in Leicester and…
Read moreSune Vibæk Svanekier
Sune Svanekier (b. 1967) is a Danish writer, actor and director trained at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (1995). Together with Peter Spies and Thomas Høg he created and co-wrote the smash hit musical “Atlantis” (which he has directed on many occasions, for instance the original production in…
Read moreSusan Cooper
Susan Cooper has been writing for over 30 years. In this time she has written numerous newspaper articles, books for children and adults, screenplays for TV, the cinema and a Broadway play. As a writer she is hard to classify, what is universally accepted is that she is a writer…
Read moreSusan Dilallo
SUSAN DILALLO (Book and Lyrics) is a recipient of the coveted Kleban Foundation Award, given annually to “the most promising librettist in musical theatre,” as well as a 2008 Jonathan Larson Award. She wrote book and lyrics to an original comedy, ONCE UPON A TIME IN NEW JERSEY, which won…
Read moreSusan Sontag
Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was an American essayist, writer, left-winged intellectual and activist.
Read moreSuzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks (b. 1964) is head of department at Cal Arts manuscript course and has written several works of drama, which spring from sociological problems in the Afro-American universe. Her characters are often placed in situations of symbols or allegories, where humour is mixed with tragedy. THE SINNER’S PLACE (1985),…
Read moreSuzanne Brøgger
Suzanne Brøgger grew up in Sri Lanka and Thailand and studied Russian at the University of Copenhagen. She worked as an actress, journalist, and war correspondent before writing her first novel in 1973. Brøgger’s work often explores the nature of love, family, and relationships. In addition to plays, her work…
Read moreSvein Gundersen
Svein Gundersen (born 15 May 1949 in Fredrikstad) is a Norwegian musician, composer and record producer. He has played with Aunt Mary, and produced records for Alex, Jan Groth, The Pussycats, Trond Granlund, Jørn Hoel and Sissel Kyrkjebø, and made ??music for 11 of Wam & Vennerøds films. As a…
Read moreSven Clausen
Sven Clausen (1893 – 1961) was a Danish playwright and lawyer. His dramatic work is largely confined to the 1920s and includes historical dramas, expressionistic dream plays and satirical comedies.
Read moreSven Holm
Sven Holm (b. 1940) is an acclaimed Danish author and playwright. He is educated from the University of Copenhagen and had his literary debut in 1961 with the collection of short stories titled ‘Den store fjende’. From the mid 1960’s Holm has first and foremost lived by his authorship and…
Read moreSverre Udnæs
Sverre Udnæs (1939 – 1982) was a prominent Norwegian director and writer. He did 19 productions for the television; 11 for the stage; 6 for the radio theatre and did 2 feature films.
Read moreSylvester Levay
Sylvester Levay began his musical studies at the age of eight. Upon his arrival in Munich in 1972, he met his writing partner, Michael Kunze, with whom he has created many successful theatrical works. From 1980 to 2000 he lived in Hollywood and concentrated on composing film music. He currently…
Read moreTamsin Oglesby
Tamsin Oglesby has worked as a Theatre Director and Assistant Director at the Royal Court Theatre, The Royal National Theatre and Studio and numerous fringe venues. She set up Hostage Theatre Productions at the Old Red Lion and was nominated for the 1988 Young Director’s Award and the Charrington Fringe…
Read moreTed (Edward A.) Whitehead
Ted (Edward Anthony) Whitehead (b.1933) is one of Brittan’s greatest living playwrights. His plays include: The Foursome (produced 1971), Alpha Beta (produced 1972), The Punishment (televised 1973), The Sea Anchor (produced 1974), Old Flames (produced 1975) , Mecca (produced 1977), The Man Who Fell In Love With His Wife –…
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