Authors

Toby Schmitz (born 1977) is an Australian actor and playwright. He was born in Perth, Western Australia, attended Perth’s Scotch College and briefly studied law at the University of Western Australia. He graduated from the acting course at National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1999 and has performed many times…

Tom Dulack is an American award winning playwright whose work has appeared on Broadway, Off Broadway, in leading regional theatres around the country, and in countries all over the world. His first professional play, Solomon’s Child, was held over at the renowned Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven CT before…

Tom Flood (born 17 May 1955) is an Australian novelist, editor, manuscript assessor, songwriter and musician. Tom Flood was born in Sydney in New South Wales, the son of writer Dorothy Hewett and grew up in Western Australia. His novel Oceana Fine won the 1988 Australian/Vogel Literary Award and he…

Tom Kitt is an American composer, conductor, orchestrator and musician. For his score for the musical NEXT TO NORMAL, he was awar4ded the Tony Award as well as being nominated for a Drama Desk Award, and winning a 2008 Outer Critics Circle Award. He attended Columbia College, New York City,…

Tom Lanoye (b. 1958) is a Belgian author and playwright. He had his proper breakthrough in 1985 with the novel “A butcher’s son with glasses”, (Een slagerszoon et een brilletje), which positioned him as front-runner of a new anarchistic generation of Flemish writers. Later on Lanoye has grown out of…

Tom Stoppard was born “Tom Straussler” in Zlin, Czechoslovakia on July 3, 1937. His family moved to Singapore in 1939 to escape the Nazis. Then, shortly before the Japanese invasion of Singapore in 1941, young Tom fled to Darjeeling, India with his mother and brother. His father, however, Eugene Straussler,…

Writer/director of numerous television films including CHRISTMAS PRESENT, EXCHANGE OF FIRE, and a TV adaptation of Minette Walters’s book THE SCOLD’S BRIDLE. Tony is also a playwright (A BUYER’S MARKET) and lyricist (libretti for FLASHMOB and FLASHMOB 2).

Tony McNamara writes for theatre, film and television. He graduated from the Australian Film Television and Radio School with a BA in Film and Television writing in 1996. In 2002, he wrote and directed the feature film THE RAGE IN PLACID LAKE adapted from his stage play THE CAFÉ LATTE…

Torvald Lervad is a Danish writer and adapter.

Trevor Griffiths (b. 1935) is an English dramatist. Raised as a Roman Catholic, he attended Saint Bede’s College, before being accepted into Manchester University in 1952 to read English. After a brief involvement with professional football and a year in National Service, he became a teacher. He became chairman of…

Trevor Robert Nunn ( b. 1940) is an English theatre – and film director. He was educated from Downing College, Cambridge, where he began his stage career before becoming a trainee director at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry. In 1968 Nunn was appointed artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, a…

Born 31. July 1953 in Oslo, Norway Trond Brænne is author and actor. He has published several books for children and young people. Furthermore, he has written radio plays and lyrics for theatre plays. In 1993 he received the prize of the radio theatre called “The Blue Bird”.

Tudor Gates (1930-2007) was an English screenwriter. In the early 1950s Gates was involved in stage management and began writing scripts in his spare time. After his TV-success “The Gunvor”, he took on writing full time. He wrote several screenplays for Hammer Film productions and several TV series, including “The…

Tyler Coppin (f. 1956) er en amerikansk-australsk skuespiller, dramatiker og dialektunderviser for skuespillere i film, tv og teater

Ulla Jessen, born 1946, is a Danish actor, director and playwright. She studied rhetoric at the University of Copenhagen and later acting at Gladsaxe Theatre in Copenhagen. She is a well known face in Danish television, film and theatre.

Ulrich Hub was born 1963 in Tübingen and studied acting in Hamburg. He was an actor for five years before turning to directing and writing stage plays and children’s books in 1993. His stage play and children’s book AN DER ARCHE UM ACHT has become a modern classic of children’s…

Urs Widmer, born in Basel in 1938 but for many years now an inhabitant of Zurich, is without doubt one of the most significant and versatile talents currently at work in the field of contemporary German-language literature as well as one of the most successful. His sales are invariably in…

Ursula Krechel (b.1947) is a German writer. Krechel was born in Trier. From 1966 to 1972 she studied German studies, theatre, and art history at the University of Cologne. From 1969 to 1972, she worked as a drama advisor in Dortmund. After 1972, she lived in Frankfurt am Main for…

Irish-Indian playwright, born 1978. Ursula Rani Sarma studied at College Cork University where her first play TOUCHED was put up. Subsequently, it was received with great enthusiasm at the Edinburgh Festival. In 2001, Sarma staged her own play, BLUE at The Cork Opera House, and Josh Benathan then took it…

Václav Havel (1936-2011) was a Czech writer, playwright and politician. He had his breakthrough as a playwright in 1963 with the play GARDEN PARTY (ZAHRADÍ SLAVNOST). It was followed by MEMORANDUM (VYROZUMÊNI) from 1965, which is one of his most famous pieces. A central theme in his writing is the…

VALERIE VIGODA (Co-Author – Book, Music and Lyrics) is the founding member of GrooveLily. Originally from McLean, Virginia, Valerie is a classically-trained musician, honours graduate of Princeton University, and former Army lieutenant. She has toured the world with Cyndi Lauper (opening for Tina Turner and Cher), Joe Jackson and the…

Wassily Sigarew was born in 1977 in Werknjaja Salda near Swerdlowsk in the Urals. He studied biochemistry in Nischni Tagil, but applied for a place at the Nikojai Koljada’s course of scriptwriting at the Institute of Theatre in Jekaterinenburg. Sigarew was accepted and he turned out to be one of…

Vilhelm Topsøe (born 1944) is a Danish lawyer, novelist, playwright, biographer, journalist and politician.

Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941) was an English novelist, essayist, diarist, epistler, publisher, feminist, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of…

Vivian Ellis (1903 – 1996) was an English musical comedy composer best known for the song “Spread a Little Happiness” and the theme “Coronation Scot”.

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was a multilingual Russian-American novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made contributions to entomology and had an interest in chess problems. Nabokov’s “Lolita” (1955) is frequently cited…

William Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era, and reputedly, the highest paid author during the 1930s.