Authors

Belgian actress

Eve Merriam was born 19 July, 1916 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Eve Merriam attended Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania (A.B., 1937), University of Wisconsin, and Columbia University. Merriam has lived most of her adult life in New York City. In the 1940s she worked as a copywriter, network radio writer, and…

Evelyn Waugh (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966), was an English writer of novels, travel books and biographies. He was also a prolific journalist. His best-known works include his early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), his novel Brideshead Revisited (1945) and his trilogy…

Ewald Palmetshofer is an award winning Austrian playwright. He was born 1978 in Linz and studied theology and philosophy / psychology in Vienna.

FELICIA NEEDLEMAN (Co-creator and lyrics) is a 2006 winner of the prestigious Kleban Award for Most Promising Musical Theatre Librettist. She and co-lyricist/librettist, Laurence Holzman, have been collaborating on musicals for years. Their holiday musical, THAT TIME OF THE YEAR, premiered off-Broadway at the York Theatre in 2006. Their musical,…

French playwright. He studied law in Madrid before moving to Paris in 1954. His plays, which reflect his abhorrence of political repression, bourgeois complacency and war, are often abstract and savagely ironic, employing sadism or sacrilege to shock the senses. His best-known plays are THE ARCHITECT AND THE EMPEROR OF…

Finn Ludt (1918-1992) was a prominent Norwegian composer, pianist and music critic. Ludt wrote theatre music, ballets and romances and was known for his unusual productivity and for his popular children songs and ballads.

Finn Methling (born 1917) is a Danish writer and literary historian. He became one of the most prominent new Danish playwrights in the 1950’s with a huge production of dramatic works for radio, theatre, film and television – a production which increased over the following decades.

Finn Savery has studied with his father C.M. Savery and at the royal Danish Conservatory of Music (1953-60). He also attended courses in Darmstadt, New York and Boston. Finn Savery is loyally and undogmatically sensitive to different styles of music and his compositions occupy an area between Western European modernism,…

FITZ PATTON (Music) has composed scores and created sound designs in New York at The Lincoln Center Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theatre, The Atlantic Theater, Juilliard, Clubbed Thumb, The Flea, and Naked Angels, and regionally at New York Stage and Film, Dallas Theater Center, Philadelphia Theater…

Fitzgerald Kusz is a playwright and poet, born 1944 in Nuremberg. He has won seven literary prizes, has written eleven books and twenty plays, including Schweig, Bub! Nuremberg 1976; Burning Love, Stück, Constance 1984; Letzter Wille, Munich 1996.

Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian writer and essayist, known for his novels Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoyevsky’s literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of…

Flemming Enevold (born 1952) is a Danish actor, singer and director trained at the National Danish Theatre School in 1975 and later at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. He was the managing director of the Gladsaxe Theatre and at the Rialto Theatre – both in Copenhagen.

Flemming Jensen was born in 1948 and is a Danish actor, author, playwright and director. Originally he was a teacher and worked for many years in Greenland. He is known for a long row of performances, mostly in the humorous genre. He has written several short stories and novels just…

Fleming Lynge (1886 – 1970) was a Danish screenwriter. He wrote the scripts for 72 films between 1929 and 1959.

Flemming Nordenhof is a Danish playwright, director and theatre manager.

Floyd Mutrux (Original Concept, Director, and Co-Author of Million Dollar Quartet) apprenticed at the Alley Theatre in Houston and worked at Second City in Chicago; he attended Columbia University. He has conceived, written, directed, or produced 50 films, including Dusty and Sweets McGee; Freebie and the Bean; Aloha, Bobby and Rose;…

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was an English-American playwright and author. She is best known for her children’s stories, in particular Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885-6), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911). Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, near…

English tv, radio, and mystery writer, whose best known series character is Paul Temple and his wife Steve. Durbridge was the master of the cliffhanger and one of the most successful writers for television. Durbridge wrote Temple stories for BBC from 1938 to 1968. The character became hugely popular in…

French screenwriter and director Francis Veber first made his name penning a number of farcical comedies during the ’70s. The son of writers, Veber originally worked as a journalist, but soon dedicated himself solely to writing comedy sketches, stories, and plays. Veber had his first major success with his screenplay…

François Mauriac was born in Bordeaux. He studied literature at Bordeaux and Paris but soon became an independent writer. LES MAINSJOINTES (Clasped Hands), a collection of poems that appeared in 1909, aroused some interest, but it was not until the publication of LE BAISER AUX LEPREUX (1922) (A Kiss for…

Born March 30, 1946.

Born in 1928 in Paris, Françoise Dorin is the daughter of the chansonnier René Dorin. Following her literature studies, she began a career as an actress in her father’s shows at the Théâtre des Deux Anes then in a play with Michel Piccoli and Roger Hanin. After that she started…

Françoise Sagan (1935-2004) was a French novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, whose dispassionate portrayals of bored, amoral middle-class people have been translated into many languages. Sagan published her first novel, BONJOUR TRITESSE (1954), at the age of 19. It was a succes de scandale for its depiction of a young woman…

Frank Ulrich Marcus (1928-1996) was a Jewish German actor and playwright. Marcus and his family came to England as refugees in 1939. Until 1943 he attended Bunce Court School at Lenham, near Faversham in Kent, (a school founded by Anna Essinger, a German Jewish-Quaker who had started a private school…

Frank McGuinness was born 29 July 1953 in Buncrana, Donegal, Ireland. He attended the National University of Ireland, University College, in Dublin, receiving BA and M.Phil in medieval studies. He began writing poetry in 1974, and from 1977 until 1979 taught linguistics and drama at the University of Ulster, Corelaine,…

The musician, composer and producer – honoured with the “Goldene Europa” – vaunted as German Musical composer with “World Format” – has after more than 1,4 million sold tickes set new Impulses for European Musicals and revue with his works like “Elements”, “Hexen”, “Hänsel&Gretel” (Berlin Friedrichstadtpalast), “POE” (Saarbrücken, Munich), “Paradise…

Wedekind was born on July 24, 1864 and lived most of his adult life in Munich, though he had a brief period working in advertising, for the Maggi soup firm, in Switzerland in 1886. He had an affair with Frida Uhl who bore him a child. Having initially worked in…

Frank Wildhorn is an American composer. In 1999, Wildhorn became the first American composer in 22 years to have three shows running simultaneously on Broadway: JEKYLL & HYDE at the Plymouth Theatre, THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL at the Minskoff, and THE CIVIL WAR at the St. James Theatre. In the popular…

Czech-born poet, playwright, and novelist, whose central themes were religious faith, heroism, and human brotherhood. Werfel’s best-known works include THE FORTY DAYS OF MUSA DAGH (1933), and THE SONG OF BERNADETTE (1941). Werfel was educated in Prague. While still a gymnasium student, he met Franz Kafka and Max Brod –…

Fred Ebb (1928 – 2004) was an American musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera. Ebb was born in Manhattan to a Jewish family, the son of Anna Evelyn…

Fred Saidy (1907 -1982) was an American playwright and screenwriter. Born in Los Angeles, California, Saidy began his writing career in 1943 with the screenplay for the Red Skelton comedy I Dood It. The following year, he scripted both the Lucille Ball-Dick Powell feature film Meet the People and the…

FREDERICK FREYER (Music) is a co-moderator (with Patrick Cook) at the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop in New York, where Pat also serves as Artistic Coordinator. Their musical CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS was produced by Manhattan Theatre Club in 1999 (directed by Lynne Meadow) where it was nominated for an Outer…

Frederick Major Paull Knott (1916 — 2002) was an English playwright, best known for writing the London-based stage thriller Dial M for Murder, which was later filmed in Hollywood by Alfred Hitchcock. Knott was born in Hankow, China, to English missionaries. He was educated at Oundle School from 1929 to…

Frederick Loewe was and American musical composer. With the bookwriter Alan Jay Lerner he created musicals as BRIGADOON, PAINT YOU WAGON, MY FAIR LADY, GIGI and CAMELOT.

Swiss playwright and essayist who achieved prominence after World War II in Switzerland and Germany with his controversial plays, often linked to the theatre of the absurd. Dürrenmatt saw that pure tragic is impossible in this grotesque time, but “we can achieve the tragic out of comedy.” Dürrenmatt was influenced…

Fritz Hochwälder ( 1911-1986) also known as Fritz Hochwaelder, was an Austrian playwright. Known for his spare prose and strong moralist themes, Hochwälder won several literary awards, including the Austrian State Prize for Literature in 1966. Most of his plays were first played at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Hochwälder wrote…

Gabriel Arout (1909-1982) was a well-known Russian-born French playwright, who is known for his plays and films.