Authors
Ted Fetter
Theodore “Ted” Fetter (ca. 1907 – March 13, 1996) was a Broadway lyricist who contributed material to such revues as “THE SHOW IS ON” (1936) and “BILLY ROSE’S AQUACADE” (1939), but is best remembered for co-writing the song “TAKING A CHANCE ON LOVE,” introduced in the 1940 musical comedy CABIN…
Read moreTed Tally
Ted Tally is an American playwright and screenwriter, best known for the play Terra Nova and the screenplay for the film THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, which won him the Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Other scripts include WHITE PALACE and BEFORE AND AFTER THE OUTBREAK. After declining to write…
Read moreTennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911–February 25, 1983), better known by the pen name Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright and one of the prominent playwrights of the twentieth century. The name “Tennessee” was a name given to him by college friends because of his southern accent and…
Read moreTerence Clarke
After graduating from Sydney University with Honours I in Music, Terence Clarke taught Mathematics for a time. His career has swung between the poles of Music/Theatre and teaching. He composed the music to Nick Enright’s book and lyrics for three musicals: THE VENETIAN TWINS (based on Goldoni’s I due gemelli…
Read moreTerence Frisby
Terence Frisby (b. 1932) is a London-based playwright and novelist, best known as the author of the play There’s A Girl In My Soup. His other stage plays include The Subtopians (1964), The Bandwagon (1969), It’s All Right If I Do It (1977), Seaside Postcard (1978) Rough Justice (1994) Funny…
Read moreTerence Rattigan
Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan (1911 – 1977) was one of England’s most popular 20th century dramatists. His plays are generally situated within an upper-middle-class background. He is known for such works as The Winslow Boy, The Browning Version and Separate Tables, among many others. He was also a screenwriter, mainly…
Read moreTerrence McNally
Born in 1939, Terrence McNally would have his first play produced in 1964 at the age of 25. Although several early comedies such as Next (1969) and The Ritz (1975) won McNally quite a bit of praise, it was not until later in his career that he would become truly…
Read moreTerry Johnson
Terry Johnson (b. 1955) is a British dramatist and director working for stage, television and film. He is a Literary Associate at the Royal Court Theatre. At The Court he directed Dumb Show by Joe Penhall and opened his play Piano/Forte. Johnson’s stage work has been produced around the world.…
Read moreThe Heather Brothers
John, Lea and Neil Heather, better known as The Heather Brothers, have produced a string of hugely successful musicals, most notably the West End hit A SLICE OF SATURDAY NIGHT starring pop star Sonia and Dennis Waterman, which also toured Europe and Japan. Lust enjoyed a West End run and…
Read moreThe Tiger Lillies / Misery Guts Music
The Tiger Lillies are an obscure cult three-piece band, based in London. Formed in 1989, they have toured world-wide and won acclaim with their opera SHOCKHEADED PETER. Their surreal style has been described as darkly humorous, Brechtian, gypsy cabaret. They are also notorious for singing controversial songs involving bestiality, prostitution…
Read moreThea Dorn
Thea Dorn (pseudonym; Christiane Scherer, b. 1970), is a German writer of crime fiction and TV host. She lives and works in Berlin. Born in Offenbach, Hessen, Dorn was initially trained as a singer, and later studied philosophy and theatrical sciences in Frankfurt and Berlin. She graduated (Magistra) in philosophy…
Read moreTheo Toksvig-Stewart
Theo is a writer and actor who trained as an actor at Drama Centre London. His writing credits in training include an adaption of Brecht’s Threepenny Opera entitled An Opera from the East. Endless Second is Theo’s first professionally produced show and performed at Theatre503 in early 2019. Endless Second…
Read moreTherese Söderberg
Therese Söderberg (b. 1975) is a Swedish playwright, dramaturge and director. She is educated as a playwright from the Nordic writing academy Biskops-Arnö and later on from The Academy of drama in Stockholm. Throughout a number of years she has been working freelance as a dramaturge, writer and director for…
Read moreTheresia Walser
Theresia Walser (b. 1967) is a German playwright and daughter of the writer and debater Martin Walser. From 1990-94 she studied at the University of Theatre and Music in Bern, Switzerland, afterwards she joined the actors ensemble at Junges Theatre in Göttingen. In 1996 she wrote her first play Das…
Read moreThomas Bendixen
Thomas Bendixen (b. 1966) is a Danish dancer, actor, adapter and director. Bendixen is educated from The Danish Theatre Academy in 1997 and has worked in his various positions for Denmark’s biggest theatres.
Read moreThomas Bredsdorff
Thomas Bredsdorff (born 1937) is an award winning Danish author and journalist. For many years he worked for the daily newspaper, Politiken as a literary critic. From 1978-2004 he was professor in Nordic literature at the University of Copenhagen.
Read moreThomas Jonigk
Thomas Jonigk was born in Eckernförde, 1966. He studied new German literature and theatre in Berlin and has since 1991 written plays and novels. Furthermore he has directed on Volksbühne in Berlin and on Schauspielhaus, Vienna, where he was theatre manager from 1997-99. In 1995 he won the first prize…
Read moreThomas Koppel
Thomas Koppel (April 27, 1944 – February 25, 2006) was a versatile Danish classical music and avant-garde popular composer and musician. His father, Herman David Koppel (1908-1998), a composer and pianist of Jewish origin, fled the Nazis with his family in 1943. Thomas was born in a refugee camp in…
Read moreThomas Malling
Thomas Malling (born 1946) is a Danish director and playwright trained at the National Danish Theatre School in 1974. He’s work is often inspired by the commedia dell’arte tradition. He has written several plays which have been staged at many of the leading Nordic theatres. Furthermore, Malling has written Viking…
Read moreThomas Meehan
Thomas Meehan won the 2001 Tony Award for co-writing the book for THE PRODUCERS. He received his first Tony Award in 1977 for writing the book of ANNIE, which was his first Broadway show, and has since written books for the musicals I REMEMBER MAMA, AINT’ BROADWAY GRAND and ANNIE…
Read moreThomas Poul Bjørn Høg
Thomas Høg (born in 1966) is an experienced musical- and songwriter. Besides Atlantis he is the co- or mainwriter of: Von Scholten (Folketeatret and tour, 2010), Lyset over Skagen (Skagen Hallen and tour, 2007), Egtved Pigen (Vejle Musikteater and tour, 2000), Peter Sabroe – Man skulle dø en sommerdag (tour,…
Read moreThomas Stearns Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri on 26 September 1888. He was educated at Harvard, at the Sorbonne in Paris and at Merton College, Oxford. He settled in England in 1915 and taught briefly at two schools before joining Lloyds Bank in the City of London in…
Read moreThomas Sundström
Thomas Sundström is a Swedish director, writer and composer. He has made several musicals and music plays and is also working in Stockholm as a freelance director and drama coach. Furthermore he writes music for films and television series.
Read moreThomas Vinterberg
Thomas Vinterberg (1969) is an award winning Danish film director and playwright. He graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 1993. Together with Lars von Trier, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen and Kristian Levring, he is one of the four original Dogme brothers. His international breakthrough “The Celebration” (1998), the first…
Read moreThomas Wolfe
(1900–38). American novelist, born in Asheville, N.C. An important 20th-century American novelist, Wolfe wrote four mammoth novels, which, while highly autobiographical, present a sweeping picture of American life. Wolfe’s works compose a picture, left somewhat incomplete by his premature death. They describe the life of a youth from the rural…
Read moreThorvaldur Thorsteinsson
Thorvaldur Thorsteinsson was born in 1960 in Akureyri, Iceland and died 2013 in Antwerp, Belgium. He studied Icelandic and literary history at the University of Iceland, before he was accepted at the school of handicraft in Reykjavik in 1983. He finished his artistic education in 1989 at the Jan van…
Read moreTim Acito
TIM ACITO (Book, Music, and Lyrics) received his MFA from Yale and has been nominated for three Drama Desk Awards. His next musical, THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE, based on the novel by Gloria Naylor, premiered at Arena Stage in Washington D.C. in their 2007-2008 season.
Read moreTim Firth
Tim Firth first came to the attention of theatregoers with the worldwide hit comedy NEVILLE’S ISLAND, and to television viewers with the 1994 series ALL QUIET ON THE PRESTON FRONT. On stage he went on to win the Olivier for his musical OUR HOUSE, and on television to win awards…
Read moreTim Gooding
Tim Gooding is a playwright, screenwriter, and songwriter/musician.His theatre productions include the musical plays King Of Country and Rock-Ola, the comedies Tentshow Pagliacci and The Astounding Optimissimos, and a new translation of Moliere’s The Miser. The Sydney Theatre Company production of his Drums Along The Diamantina starred a young Mel…
Read moreTim Rice
TIM RICE was born in 1944. He began songwriting in 1965 in which year the first song he wrote “That’s My Story” (tune as well as words) was recorded by a rock group called The Nightshift whose career never recovered. That same year he met fellow budding songwriter Andrew Lloyd…
Read moreTina Kruse Andersen
Tina Kruse was born in 1961 in Copenhagen and graduated from college in 1978. She trained as an actress at Odense Theatre 1987 to 1991. In addition to her work as an actress, she has also written a number of plays and revues.
Read moreToby Schmitz
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…
Read moreTom Dulack
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…
Read moreTom Flood
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…
Read moreTom Kitt
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,…
Read moreTom Lanoye
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…
Read moreTom Stoppard
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,…
Read moreTony Bicât
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).
Read moreTony McNamara
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…
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