Authors

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),…

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…

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.

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…

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.

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…

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…

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 –…

Theodore “Ted” Fetter (ca. 1907 – March 13, 1996) was a Broadway lyricist who contributed material to such revues as “THE SHOW IS ON” (1936) and “BILLY ROSE’S AQUACADE” (1939), but is best remembered for co-writing the song “TAKING A CHANCE ON LOVE,” introduced in the 1940 musical comedy CABIN…

Ted Tally is an American playwright and screenwriter, best known for the play Terra Nova and the screenplay for the film THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, which won him the Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Other scripts include WHITE PALACE and BEFORE AND AFTER THE OUTBREAK. After declining to write…

After graduating from Sydney University with Honours I in Music, Terence Clarke taught Mathematics for a time. His career has swung between the poles of Music/Theatre and teaching. He composed the music to Nick Enright’s book and lyrics for three musicals: THE VENETIAN TWINS (based on Goldoni’s I due gemelli…

Terence Frisby (b. 1932) is a London-based playwright and novelist, best known as the author of the play There’s A Girl In My Soup. His other stage plays include The Subtopians (1964), The Bandwagon (1969), It’s All Right If I Do It (1977), Seaside Postcard (1978) Rough Justice (1994) Funny…

Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan (1911 – 1977) was one of England’s most popular 20th century dramatists. His plays are generally situated within an upper-middle-class background. He is known for such works as The Winslow Boy, The Browning Version and Separate Tables, among many others. He was also a screenwriter, mainly…

Born in 1939, Terrence McNally would have his first play produced in 1964 at the age of 25. Although several early comedies such as Next (1969) and The Ritz (1975) won McNally quite a bit of praise, it was not until later in his career that he would become truly…

Terry Johnson (b. 1955) is a British dramatist and director working for stage, television and film. He is a Literary Associate at the Royal Court Theatre. At The Court he directed Dumb Show by Joe Penhall and opened his play Piano/Forte. Johnson’s stage work has been produced around the world.…

John, Lea and Neil Heather, better known as The Heather Brothers, have produced a string of hugely successful musicals, most notably the West End hit A SLICE OF SATURDAY NIGHT starring pop star Sonia and Dennis Waterman, which also toured Europe and Japan. Lust enjoyed a West End run and…

The Tiger Lillies are an obscure cult three-piece band, based in London. Formed in 1989, they have toured world-wide and won acclaim with their opera SHOCKHEADED PETER. Their surreal style has been described as darkly humorous, Brechtian, gypsy cabaret. They are also notorious for singing controversial songs involving bestiality, prostitution…

Thea Dorn (pseudonym; Christiane Scherer, b. 1970), is a German writer of crime fiction and TV host. She lives and works in Berlin. Born in Offenbach, Hessen, Dorn was initially trained as a singer, and later studied philosophy and theatrical sciences in Frankfurt and Berlin. She graduated (Magistra) in philosophy…

Theresia Walser (b. 1967) is a German playwright and daughter of the writer and debater Martin Walser. From 1990-94 she studied at the University of Theatre and Music in Bern, Switzerland, afterwards she joined the actors ensemble at Junges Theatre in Göttingen. In 1996 she wrote her first play Das…

Thomas Bendixen (b. 1966) is a Danish dancer, actor, adapter and director. Bendixen is educated from The Danish Theatre Academy in 1997 and has worked in his various positions for Denmark’s biggest theatres.

Thomas Bredsdorff (born 1937) is an award winning Danish author and journalist. For many years he worked for the daily newspaper, Politiken as a literary critic. From 1978-2004 he was professor in Nordic literature at the University of Copenhagen.

Thomas Jonigk was born in Eckernförde, 1966. He studied new German literature and theatre in Berlin and has since 1991 written plays and novels. Furthermore he has directed on Volksbühne in Berlin and on Schauspielhaus, Vienna, where he was theatre manager from 1997-99. In 1995 he won the first prize…

Thomas Koppel (April 27, 1944 – February 25, 2006) was a versatile Danish classical music and avant-garde popular composer and musician. His father, Herman David Koppel (1908-1998), a composer and pianist of Jewish origin, fled the Nazis with his family in 1943. Thomas was born in a refugee camp in…

Thomas Malling (born 1946) is a Danish director and playwright trained at the National Danish Theatre School in 1974. He’s work is often inspired by the commedia dell’arte tradition. He has written several plays which have been staged at many of the leading Nordic theatres. Furthermore, Malling has written Viking…

Thomas Meehan won the 2001 Tony Award for co-writing the book for THE PRODUCERS. He received his first Tony Award in 1977 for writing the book of ANNIE, which was his first Broadway show, and has since written books for the musicals I REMEMBER MAMA, AINT’ BROADWAY GRAND and ANNIE…

Thomas Høg (born in 1966) is an experienced musical- and songwriter. Besides Atlantis he is the co- or mainwriter of: Von Scholten (Folketeatret and tour, 2010), Lyset over Skagen (Skagen Hallen and tour, 2007), Egtved Pigen (Vejle Musikteater and tour, 2000), Peter Sabroe – Man skulle dø en sommerdag (tour,…

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri on 26 September 1888. He was educated at Harvard, at the Sorbonne in Paris and at Merton College, Oxford. He settled in England in 1915 and taught briefly at two schools before joining Lloyds Bank in the City of London in…

Thomas Sundström is a Swedish director, writer and composer. He has made several musicals and music plays and is also working in Stockholm as a freelance director and drama coach. Furthermore he writes music for films and television series.

(1900–38). American novelist, born in Asheville, N.C. An important 20th-century American novelist, Wolfe wrote four mammoth novels, which, while highly autobiographical, present a sweeping picture of American life. Wolfe’s works compose a picture, left somewhat incomplete by his premature death. They describe the life of a youth from the rural…

Thorvaldur Thorsteinsson was born in 1960 in Akureyri, Iceland and died 2013 in Antwerp, Belgium. He studied Icelandic and literary history at the University of Iceland, before he was accepted at the school of handicraft in Reykjavik in 1983. He finished his artistic education in 1989 at the Jan van…

TIM ACITO (Book, Music, and Lyrics) received his MFA from Yale and has been nominated for three Drama Desk Awards. His next musical, THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE, based on the novel by Gloria Naylor, premiered at Arena Stage in Washington D.C. in their 2007-2008 season.

Tim Firth first came to the attention of theatregoers with the worldwide hit comedy NEVILLE’S ISLAND, and to television viewers with the 1994 series ALL QUIET ON THE PRESTON FRONT. On stage he went on to win the Olivier for his musical OUR HOUSE, and on television to win awards…

Tim Gooding is a playwright, screenwriter, and songwriter/musician.His theatre productions include the musical plays King Of Country and Rock-Ola, the comedies Tentshow Pagliacci and The Astounding Optimissimos, and a new translation of Moliere’s The Miser. The Sydney Theatre Company production of his Drums Along The Diamantina starred a young Mel…

TIM RICE was born in 1944. He began songwriting in 1965 in which year the first song he wrote “That’s My Story” (tune as well as words) was recorded by a rock group called The Nightshift whose career never recovered. That same year he met fellow budding songwriter Andrew Lloyd…

Tina Kruse was born in 1961 in Copenhagen and graduated from college in 1978. She trained as an actress at Odense Theatre 1987 to 1991. In addition to her work as an actress, she has also written a number of plays and revues.