Authors

Dusty Hughes (b. 1947) is a British playwright and director, writing for both the theatre and television. His “Grrr” (1968) was first performed in Edinburgh. In 1980 Hughes won the London Theatre Critics Award for “Most Promising Playwright” for his play “Commitments” (1968).

Welsh poet and prose writer whose works are known for musical quality of the language, comic or visionary scenes and sensual images. Dylan Thomas was born in the seaport town Swansea, West Glamorgan. He received little formal education. His first book, dreamlike and sensuous 18 POEMS (1934), marked the appearance…

Edgar Yipsel Harburg (1896 – 1981), known as E.Y. Harburg or Yip Harburg, was an American popular song lyricist who worked with many well-known composers. He wrote the lyrics to the standards, “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”, “April in Paris”, and “It’s Only a Paper Moon”, as well as…

Ebbe Kløvedal Reich (1940 – 2005) was a Danish writer, who primarely wrote historic novels. He had a great influence in the public debate in Denmark from his debut in 1965 until his death.

Edward Graczyk (born 1941) is a playwright originally from the U.S. state of Ohio. He wrote several children’s plays early in his career, but became better known as the author of 1976’s Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. In 1982, Graczyk won the Best Screenplay…

“Ed Thomas is the most exciting playwright in Wales, and one of the most arresting in the UK.” The Guardian House of America was Ed Thomas’ first full length play. It’s success led to him forming theatre company Y Cwmni which later became Fiction Factory. From 1988 to 1998 he…

EDGAR ALLAN POE (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor, critic and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of the macabre, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and…

Edna O’Brian was born in Tuamgraney, County Clare. She was educated locally at Scarriff, and in Loughrea, County Galway and she went on to become a Licentiate of the Pharmaceutical College of Ireland. From the publication of her first book, THE COUNTRY GIRLS, O’Brien achieved a notoriety in Ireland by…

Producer and PR man Edward Chodorov started out as a stage manager on Broadway. He began writing screenplays and plays such as OH, MEN! OH, WOMEN! during the ’30s, and this led him to begin producing movies from the late ’30s through the early ’50s. His play KIND LADY was…

Edward “Ed” Kleban (1939 – 1987) was an American musical theatre composer and lyricist. A graduate of New York’s High School of Music & Art and Columbia University, Kleban wrote the lyrics for the Broadway hit A Chorus Line. He and composer Marvin Hamlisch won the 1976 Tony Award for…

Taylor grew up in Southend, Essex. He wrote and performed in the Cambridge University Footlights Revue of 1955 which played in London with great success. He was then invited to join the BBC as a writer-producer on a twelve-month contract. He accepted, and stayed for thirty-six years. Edward’s 3214 productions…

Egil Monn-Iversen (born 1928) is one of the most influential modern composers in Norway. He has had many important roles in Norwegian music, film, opera, television, comedy and theater.

Egon Wolff (b. 1926) is a Chilean playwright and author. He was born in Santiago, Chile and was educated in Chile and the United States. Wolff studied and graduated in chemical engineering from the Universidad Catolica de Chile (Catholic University of Santiago) and subsequently studied performing arts at Yale University…

EILEEN ATKINS has achieved success both as an actress and a writer. She has won all of the major British theatre awards and many more in New York, including three Tony nominations. Together with Jean Marsh, she co-created the internationally successful television series UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS and THE HOUSE OF ELIOT…

Eirik Fauske (b. 1982) is regarded as one of Norway’s most original young playwrights and his writings occupy the point of intersection between the personal, the political, the documentary and the poetic. He has written and produced several works for the stage, including Gullalðurir (The Golden Age) from 2009, Under…

Elaine May (b. 1932) is an American film director, screenwriter and actress. She achieved her greatest fame in the 1950s from her improvisational comedy routines in partnership with Mike Nichols. In 1950, May attended the University of Chicago and Playwrights Theatre in Chicago. In 1953, she became a member of…

Elfriede Jelinek (née 1946) is an Austrian novelist and playwright noted for her controversial works on gender relations, female sexuality, and popular culture. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004. Jelinek was educated in Vienna; a combination of her academic studies with a rigorous programme of musical…

Elias Lönnrot (April 9, 1802 – March 19, 1884) was a Finnish philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry. He is best known for composing the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic compiled from national folklore.

Elisabeth Hauptmann (1897-1973) was a German writer who worked with Bertolt Brecht. She got to know Brecht in 1922, the same year she came to Berlin. She began collaborating with him in 1924, and is listed as a co-author of The Threepenny Opera (1928). She is purposed to have composed…

Elith Poul Ponsaing Reumert (January 9, 1855 in Aalborg, Denmark – June 24, 1934 in Copenhagen) was a Danish actor and writer, married to Athalia Flammé, father of Poul Reumert. Reumert graduated and debuted 30 September 1876 as Marcel in “ARBEJDERLIV” at The Royal Theatre, whose directors , misled by…

Elizabeth Swados (born February 5, 1951) is an American writer, composer, musician, and theatre director. While some of her subject matter is humorous, such as her satirical look at Ronald Reagan, Rap Master Ronnie, and Doonesbury – both collaborations with Garry Trudeau – much of her work deals with dark…

The Swedish actress, director and playwright, Ellen Nyman, is born in 1971 and educated from The Acting School at Aarhus Theatre in 1997. She has worked in both Denmark and Sweden and starred in more than 30 plays, a row of films, television and performances. Furthermore she has established her…

Elmer Blaney Harris (1878 – 1966) was an American author, dramatist, and playwright. He was born in Chicago,Illinois, the youngest of eight children. He moved with his family to Oakland, California, after his father’s broom factory burned to the ground. After high school, he attended the University of California, Berkeley,…

Elsa Beskow (1874 – 1953) was a Swedish author and illustrator of children’s books. Beskow is the most well known of all Swedish children’s book artists and her books are continually reprinted. Many of her books are classics. Beskow also illustrated ABC books and songbooks for Swedish schools. Beskow studied…

Emil Reesen (1887 – 1964) was a Danish cundoctor and composer perhaps most famous for the popoular operetta Farinelli (1942).

George Emlyn Williams (1905 – 1987) was a Welsh dramatist and actor. He was born into a Welsh-speaking, working-class family in Mostyn, Flintshire, Wales, but won a scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford. In 1927, he joined a repertory company and began his stage career. By 1930, he had branched out…

Ephraim Kishon (1924 – 2005) was an Israeli writer, satirist, dramatist, screenwriter and film director. His plays include: Reputation precedes him (1953), Ha-Ketubbah (1953), Take the plug out (1968), Oh, oh, Juliet (1972) and Salah Shabati the musical (1988.)

On the New York stage, ERIC BOGOSIAN has attained singular achievement. In the last twenty years, Bogosian has authored five full-length plays and created six full-length solos. For these, he has received three OBIE awards and a Drama Desk Award. In 2004 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to continue…

Eric Chappell was a successful writer, both on TV and in the theatre. A 1976 play WE’RE STRANGERS HERE became the sitcom smash Duty Free, and Eric’s other contributions to great British comedy include ONLY WHEN I LAUGH, HOME TO ROOST, THE BOUNDER and FIDDLER’S THREE. “I always write the…

ERIC IDLE (Book, lyrics, and music) Writer and actor in the legendary “Monty Python” TV series and movies. He has appeared on stage in drag singing rude songs at Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl as well as performing in two highly successful tours, Eric Idle Exploits Monty Python (2000)…

Erik Balling (1924 – 2005) was a Danish film director. His career began in 1946 when he started working at Nordisk Film in Copenhagen. He is best known for his internationally acclaimed film series, “The Olsen Gang” (Olsen Banden) and the TV-series “Matador” (“Monopoly”) and “Huset på Christianshavn” (“The House…

Erik Bent Svendlund (1931-2010) was a trained actor from the schools of Aarhus Theatre and The Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. Journalist from 1957-67, author and translator, actor and director at Odense theatre from 1967-1977, as well as deputy head from 1972-1977 – with a series of notable productions. From 1977…

ERIK JACKSON (Book) has written four Off Broadway plays. The comedy CHARLIE! (1995) was very successful at New York’s P.S. 122 and the HERE Theater. His comic thriller TELL-TALE (1997) premiered at P.S. 122 then transferred to the Cherry Lane Theater. It received a GLADD nomination as best play of…

Screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson is a professor of dramatic writing at Duke University and a monthly sex columnist for Razor magazine. Some of her internationally produced plays include HURRICANE, THE TRAIL OF HER INNER THIGH, and CROSS-DRESSING IN THE DEPRESSION. Along with Lillian Ann Slugocki, she co-wrote THE EROTICA PROJECT.…

Erlend Loe (born May 24, 1969 in Trondheim) is a Norwegian novelist. He worked at a psychiatric clinic, and was later a freelance journalist for Norwegian newspaper Adresseavisen. Loe now lives and works in Oslo where in 1998 he cofounded Screenwriters Oslo – an office community for screenwriters. In 1993…

Erling Jepsen (born 1956) is one of the most performed Danish playwrights. He debuted in 1977 with the award winning radio play BISQUIT WITH KNIFE AND FORK and has since written an impressive line of works for the radio, television and the theatre. His often hilarious plays often is about…

For many years Erling Bo Møllehave has worked as a scriptwriter for commercials and revues. Furthermore he has worked with theatre and produced many songs sung at parties. Møllehave has had a 25 year long career as a teacher.

Ernest Vajda (1886-1954, Woodland Hills, California; birth name Ern? Vajda) was a Hungarian actor, playwright and novelist, but is more famous today for his screenplays. He co-wrote the screenplay for the film Smilin’ Through (1932), based on the hit play by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin. Vajda also wrote the…

Danish actor and playwright (b. 1923 – d. 2011). Having achieved his university matriculation certificate he went on to teacher training college, but pursued studies in drawing and finally in 1946 gained entrance to the Theatre School at Odense. From 1947-50 he acted several times and this is how he…

Esther Vilar, born Esther Margareta Katzen (b. 1935 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a German-Argentinian writer. She trained and practised as a medical doctor before establishing herself as an author. She is best known for her 1971 book The Manipulated Man and its various follow-ups, which argue that, contrary to…