Authors

DAVID EVANS (Music and Co-bookwriter) received a Drama Desk Nomination for his score for Off-Broadway’s BIRDS OF PARADISE (written with Winnie Holzman and directed by Arthur Laurents). He has written nine musicals for Theatreworks USA and two musicals for TADA. His show, CHILDREN’S LETTERS TO GOD (Lyrics: Douglas Cohen, Book:…

David Fishelson is the founder and artistic director of The Manhattan Ensemble Theater. He has made stage adaptations of two of Dostoevsky’s novels; THE KARAMAZOV BROTHERS and THE IDIOT as well as of Kafka’s THE CASTLE that was nominated by The 2002 Outer Critics Circle for Best Off-Broadway Play and…

David Hirson was born in New York City and was educated at Yale and Oxford. His plays have been produced on Broadway and internationally, receiving nominations for multiple Tony and Drama Desk Awards, and winning numerous honors including the John Gassner Award of the Outer Critics Circle, the New York…

David King was a graduate of Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium. He worked professionally for 30 years as a Music Theatre Director/Accompanist/Composer. As a musical director he has worked on some seventy productions including long running seasons of GUYS AND DOLLS, CATS, FORTY SECOND STREET, and SHOWBOAT. As a composer he has…

DAVID KISOR (Lyrics) is a composer, performer, musical director and teacher, and received his Master’s Degree in music composition from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. He has long been associated with the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati where he has composed the scores and written the lyrics to several…

David Mercer was born 27 June, 1928 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England. He was educated at King’s College, Newcastle upon Tyne. (B.A. with honors, Durham University, 1953). He lived in Paris from 1953-54 and was a supply teacher. Mercer worked as a teacher, at Barrett Street Technical College from 1955-59. From…

David Malcolm Storey (b. 1933) is an English playwright, screenwriter, award winning novelist and a former professional Rugby League player. Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, and educated at QEGS Wakefield and at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, his plays include: The Restoration of Arnold Middleton, The Farm, The Changing…

David Thompson is an American writer and playwright. He currently resides in Millburn, New Jersey. His credits include And The World Goes ‘Round, The Look of Love, Thou Shalt Not, Steel Pier, and the 1996 Broadway revival of Chicago, to which he contributed a new book. Thompson was nominated for…

Writer-producer David W. Rintels, has worked in a variety of dramatic television forms, including series, made-for-television movies, and miniseries. He began his television career in the early 1960s writing episodes for the critically acclaimed CBS courtroom drama series The Defenders. He continued his series involvement writing episodes for Slattery’s People…

David Williamson is Australia’s best known and most widely performed playwright.   Some of his 56 produced plays over the last 50 years include The Coming Of The Stork, The Removalists, Don’s Party, The Club, Travelling North, Money & Friends, Dead White Males, The Jack Manning Trilogy, Up For Grabs,…

David Wiltse is an American playwright. He is the winner of a Drama Desk Award for “Most Promising Playwright” for his first produced play, SUGGS, which was done at Lincoln Center. His second play was the comedy, DOUBLES, which ran for the l985-86 season on Broadway. Four other plays, A…

David Yazbek is an American musician, composer, and lyricist. After attending Brown University, he got a job writing for David Letterman’s late night television show. He won an Emmy as part of Letterman’s writing team in 1986, but quit to pursue his love of music. From 1987 to 1989 he…

David Zippel is an American Tony Award-winning Musical theatre lyricist. Credits include: CITY OF ANGELS (1989): original musical with book by Larry Gelbart and music by Cy Coleman. Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Score, Best Book, Best Actor (James Naughton Best Featured Actress (Randy Graff), and Best Set Design…

Dea Loher (b. 1964) is a German playwright. After highschool she studied German language and literature at The Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and finished her studies with a master in arts (M.A.). Afterwards she moved to Berlin, where she works as a successful playwright. She has received a row…

Playwright, novelist and poet Deborah Levy was born in 1959 in South Africa. She moved to Britain with her family and studied theatre at Dartington College of Arts. She was a Creative Arts Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, between 1989 and 1991. She is a regular contributor of articles and…

Dejan Dukovski (1969) playwright and screenwriter, born in Skopje, Macedonia. He has written many plays and film and televison screenplays. Best known for his Powder Keg (1994) produced over 20 times in the United States, Japan, and Europe. Without exception, all of his plays have been a huge successes: Siljan…

Dennis Christopher George Potter (1935–1994) was an English dramatist, best known for The Singing Detective. His widely acclaimed television dramas mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social. He was particularly fond of using themes and images from popular culture.

Derek Benfield trained for the theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where he won the Gertrude Lawrence Award for his performance in FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS. Since playing Frank Skinner in “Timeslip”, Derek’s face has become a very popular one from his many appearances on television including his role…

Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930) is a poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was in the vanguard of the post-colonial school of English language writing. Born in Castries, St. Lucia, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. He is best known for his epic poem…

Born in Birmingham, Di Trevis was educated at Waverley Grammar School and the University of Sussex where she read Social Anthropology. She worked for several years as an actress first at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow and after at the National Theatre. In 1981 she became a director. She has…

Diane Samuels (b. 1960) is a British author and playwright. Samuels studied history at Sidney Sussex College at the University of Cambridge and then studied for a PGCE in drama at Goldsmiths, University of London. She worked as a drama teacher in inner London secondary schools for five years and…

Didier Van Cauwelaert (born July 29, 1960) is a French author. In 1994 his novel Un Aller simple won the Prix Goncourt.

Ditte Marie Bjerg (b. 1960) is a Danish stage director and curator. In 1992 she was educated as director from the the Royal Theatre Academy and has staged plays all over the country for instance at: Caféteateret, The Royal Theatre, Århus Theatre, Ålborg Theatre etc.

Dominic Cooke was born in 1966. He was associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where his productions have included THE MALCONTENT and CYMBELINE. Prior to that, he was Associate Director at the Royal Court Theatre for four years, where he directed seven productions, including Vasilly Sigarev’s PLASTICINE and Michael…

Donald Driver was born in Portland, Oregon and received his formal education at Pomona College in southern California. His first Broadway play, the American version of MARAT DE SADE won him unanious recognition by the New York criticts. He was also nominated for a Tony Award for this production.He has…

Donald H. Harron, (b.1924) is a Canadian comedian, actor, director, journalist, author and composer. Harron is best known for the character Charlie Farquharson, a personality he first portrayed in 1952 on the CBC series The Big Revue and used as part of the cast of the U.S. country music television…

Donald Howarth (b. 1931) is a playwright and theatre director. After training at Esme Church’s Northern Theatre School in Bradford, he worked in various repertory theatres around England before writing his first play, Sugar in the Morning, which was selected by George Devine for performance at the Royal Court Theatre…

Born in Brooklyn in 1954, Donald Margulies grew up in Trump Village, a Coney Island housing project built by Donald Trump’s father. Margulies was exposed early to the theatre. His father, a wallpaper salesman, played show tunes on the family hi-fi and, despite a limited income, often took his children…

Mrs Lessing was writing plays in Southern Rhodesia long before she ever saw a play on the stage – and has been writing them ever since. Of the twenty of so she has done most have become dated, but she still stand by five of them. Her first serious production…

Dorothy Fields (July 15, 1905 – March 28, 1974) was an American librettist and lyricist. She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films. Along with Ann Ronell, Dana Suesse, Bernice Petkere, and Kay Swift, she was one of the first successful Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood female songwriters.

DOROTHY HEWETT (21 May 1923 – 25 Aug 2002), born in Perth, achieved distinction as a playwright, poet and novelist. Her stage works include The Chapel Perilous, Mrs Porter and the Angels, Bon-Bons and Roses for Dolly, The Golden Oldies, Pandora’s Cross, The Man from Mukinupin, Golden Valley, The Fields…

DUNCAN SHEIK was awarded the 2007 Tony Awards for “Best Orchestration” and “Best Original Score” and a 2008 Grammy Award for “Best Musical Show Album” for his Broadway hit, SPRING AWAKENING. Sheik and his collaborator on SPRING AWAKENING, playwright, Steven Sater, spent last summer developing NERO (Another Golden Rome), at…