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Brian Clark
Brian Clark (b. 1932) is a British playwright and television writer, best known for his play ‘’Whose Life Is It Anyway?”, which he later adapted into a screenplay. Clark was born in Bristol, United Kingdom, the son of a blacksmith. He was educated at the Central School of Speech and…
Read moreBrian Friel
Brian Friel (b. 1929) is an Irish dramatist, theatre director and author. Friel began writing short stories for The New Yorker in 1959 and subsequently published two well-received collections: The Saucer of Larks (1962) and The Gold in the Sea (1966). He has written several plays including: “Philadelphia Here I…
Read moreBrian Way
Brian Francis Way (September 12, 1923 – February 23, 2006), established Theatre Centre in London, England, in 1953. The company originated the modern concept of theatre for children in an educational context. Brian Way was born in Sussex, England, in 1923. He was the prime mover in a group of…
Read moreBrian Yorkey
Brian Yorkey is an American playwright, lyricist and theatre director. He shared the 2009 Tony Award for Best Original Score with composer Tom Kitt and was nominated the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Next to Normal. A native of Issaquah, Washington, Yorkey graduated from Columbia University,…
Read moreBruce Gooch
During 1976 Bruce Gooch took an acting course at the University of Michigan and has since taken part in productions on Broadway and off-Broadway. At the same time he teaches and directs at The Delaware Academy in New York.. Apart from DIRT he has written a number of well-produced plays,…
Read moreBurt Bacharach
American composer. He began his career playing piano with jazz bands in the 1940s and then as a pianist and arranger for nightclub acts, notably with Marlene Dietrich in the 1950s. With the lyricist Hal David, Bacharach produced a number of popular songs from the late 1950s to the early…
Read moreC. E. Webber
Cecil Webber was a British television writer and playwright. He is best remembered for his contribution to the creation of the famous science-fiction series DOCTOR WHO while working as a staff writer for the BBC in the early 1960s. His published stage plays included BE GOOD, SWEET MAID (1957), OUT…
Read moreC. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), commonly called C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as “Jack”, was a novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, and Christian apologist born in Belfast, Ireland. He held academic positions at both Oxford University…
Read moreCaren Jeß
Caren Jeß is an award-winning German playwright. She was born in 1985 in Eckernförde and studied German philology and literary studies in Freiburg i.Br and Berlin.
Read moreCarlo Goldoni
Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (1707 – 1793) was a celebrated Venetian playwright and librettist, whom critics today rank among the European theatre’s greatest authors. His works, along with those of the modernist Luigi Pirandello, include some of Italy’s most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for…
Read moreCarlos Semprun Maura
Carlos Semprún Maura (23 November 1926, Madrid – 23 March 2009, Paris), was an author, playwright and journalist, mostly in French.
Read moreCarol Hall
Carol Hall is an American composer and lyricist, born in Abilene, Texas. Hall is best known for composing the music and lyrics for the Broadway stage musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1978, adapted as a film in 1982). Her other major works include the unsuccessful Broadway sequel thereto,…
Read moreCarole Bayer Sager
Carole Bayer Sager (born March 8, 1947) is an American lyricist, songwriter and singer best-known for writing the lyrics to many popular songs performed on Broadway and in Hollywood films. Sager wrote her first pop hit “A Groovy Kind Of Love” in 1966 while a student at the New York…
Read moreCarole Fréchette
CAROLE FRÉCHETTE (Canada) Carole Fréchette was born in Montreal in 1949. She graduated as an actress from École nationale du Canada and was thereafter employed at Théâtre des Cuisines, both as an actress as well as playwright, up until the early eighties. However, since 1993 she has focused only on…
Read moreCaroline Jørgensen
CAROLINE JØRGENSEN (b. 1982) is a Danish playwright and translator. She attended The Danish National School of Performing Arts Playwriters Programme from 2006-2010, but had her debut as a dramatist already in 2005 (COUNT ON ALICE) at Teater Katapult. In 2013 she received The Danish Playwrights’ Talent Award for BEHIND…
Read moreCarolyn Leigh
Carolyn Leigh (August 21, 1926 – November 19, 1983) was an American lyricist for Broadway, movies, and popular songs.Leigh, born in the Bronx, New York, graduated from Hunter College High School, Queens College and New York University, and worked as a copy writer for radio stations and advertising agencies. Her…
Read moreCarson McCullers
Carson McCullers made her literary debut at age 23 with the publication of THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER (1940). The story concerns the relationships among five people living in a small town in Georgia. All are damaged spirits, struggling to find meaning in their own lives, yet paralyzed by…
Read moreCarsten Friis
Carsten Friis, born in 1971, has over the past twenty years staged around 140 musicals, and made several promotional and educational films. Carsten is the artistic director and director of Hans Christian Andersen Festival Plays, and is also permanently assigned as a director at Frøbjerg Festspil , Musikteaterskolen, Vejle n…
Read moreCaryl Churchill
Caryl Churchill (1938) is an award-winning English playwright. She studied English literature at Oxford and is one of the most performed playwrights in British theater. Several of her texts have been published.
Read moreCate Ryan
In 2012 Ms. Ryan’s play, “THE PICTURE BOX”, was presented by The Negro Ensemble Company. The Black Theater Troupe in Phoenix, Arizona will be producing “THE PICTURE BOX” under the direction of Artistic Director, David Hemphil in their 2016-2017 season. Ms. Ryan’s plays: “THE SNOW ROOM”, “ALL SAINTS DAY” and…
Read moreCatherine Celesia Allen
Catherine Celesia Allen has written numerous of full-length plays and one-acts. In 1993 she won the Berverly Hills Award for The Essence of Being.
Read moreCecil P. Taylor
Taylor was unique in being equally at ease writing for the RSC and the West End or local theatre such as the Newcastle-based Live Theatre Co. He died aged 52 in 1981, leaving a phenomenal legacy of more than 70 plays written in little more than 20 years.
Read moreCharlene Redick
Charlene Redick is an American playwright, painter and author. She has written twelve novels, five volumes of poetry, five volumes of short stories, four screenplays, four musicals, two volumes of essays, three children’s stories and twenty-five stage plays including the successful play Autumn Elegy. Her plays have been produced all…
Read moreCharles Dickens
English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens’s works are characterized by attacks on social evils, injustice, and hypocrisy. Dickens’s good, bad, and comic characters, such as the cruel miser Scrooge, the aspiring novelist David Copperfield, or the trusting and innocent Mr. Pickwick, have fascinated generations of…
Read moreCharles Hart
Charles Hart (b.1961) is a British lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for writing the lyrics to, and contributing to the book of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s phenomenally successful stage musical The Phantom of the Opera, which has since been produced as a film. He also co-wrote (with Don…
Read moreCharles M. Schultz
CHARLES M. SCHULZ is the most widely syndicated cartoonist in history, with his work appearing in over 2,300 newspapers. He has published more than 1,400 books, won Peabody and Emmy awards, and is responsible for the most-produced musical in the American theatre, entitled YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN. Charles…
Read moreCharles MacArthur
Charles Gordon MacArthur (1895-1956) was an American playwright and screenwriter. The son of a Baptist minister, he is best known for his plays with Ben Hecht, Ladies and Gentlemen (filmed as Perfect Strangers), Twentieth Century and the frequently filmed The Front Page, which was based in part on MacArthur’s experiences…
Read moreCharles Strouse
Charles Strouse (b. 1928) is a three-time Tony Award-winning American composer and lyricist. Strouse’s first Broadway musical was the 1960 hit Bye Bye Birdie, with lyrics by Lee Adams, who would become his long time collaborator. Strouse won his first Tony Award for best score for this musical, which is…
Read moreCharles Wood
Charles Wood (June 15, 1866–July 12, 1926) was an Irish composer and teacher. Born in Armagh, in present-day Northern Ireland, he studied at the Royal College of Music and University of Cambridge, where he later taught harmony and counterpoint, becoming professor of music in 1924. Like his better-known colleague, Charles…
Read moreCharlie Smalls
Charlie Smalls (October 25, 1943 – August 27, 1987) was an African-American composer and songwriter, best known for writing the music for the 1975 Broadway musical The Wiz. He wrote a song for John Cassavetes’s 1968 film Faces called “Never Felt Like This Before”. He also wrote the score for…
Read moreChris Goode
Chris Goode is a writer, director, performer and sound designer, who has been described as ‘one of the most exciting talents working in Britain today’ (Guardian) and ‘an extremely highly regarded alternative theatre maker’ (Caroline McGinn, Time Out). His work has included two Fringe First award-winning shows: Neutrino (with Unlimited…
Read moreChris Thorpe
Chris Thorpe was a founder member of Unlimited Theatre and still works and tours with the company. He is also an Artistic Associate of live art/theatre company Third Angel as well as working closely with, among others, Forest Fringe, Slung Low, Chris Goode, RashDash, Belarus Free Theatre and Portuguese company…
Read moreChrister Kihlman
Christer Kihlman (f. 1930) is a radikal Finish-Swedish author and literature critic. In 1951 Kihlman had his debut as a poet, but in 1951 he continued as a prosaist after the publication of his well-reviewed novel Se upp salige! Since the end of the 1980’s Christer Kihlman’s production has been…
Read moreChristian Berg
Christian Berg, was born in 1966 in Bad Oeynhausen. From 1984 to 1987, Christian Berg visited successfully an actor’s school in Hamburg. His first own production in 1988, was “Pinocchio – The Musical “, an experience which had a major influence on his future career. In the 90s, his two…
Read moreChristian Dahlberg
Christian Dahlberg is educated as a conductor from the Royal Danish Academy of Music in 1986 and has worked as a conductor, bandmaster and musician for instance as a keyboard player for the British rock singer James Thomas. In 2006 Dahlberg received the appreciation scholarship for his remarkable productivity.
Read moreChristian Lange
Christian Lange (born 1950) is a Danish actor, playwright, adaptor, theatrical director and producer. His work has been produced internationally.
Read moreChristian Lollike
Christian Lollike (born 1973) is an award winning Danish playwright, director and theatre manager educated from The Danish National School of Playwriting at Aarhus Theatre in 2001. Since his debut in 2002, he has marked himself as one of the most significant voices in new Nordic playwriting. In a form…
Read moreChristian Ranke
Christian Ranke is a writer, singer, actor and graphic designer. He has translated several musicals, such as EVITA (Rice/Lloyd Webber), THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK (Dempsey/Rowe), PETER PAN – A MUSICAL ADVENTURE (Stiles/Drewe), NÄRMARE KANTEN (Palm/Rydman/Schaub) and THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY (Hill/ Bartram). He has also co-translated musicals such as WEST…
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