Authors
Toril Solvang
Toril Solvang-Kayiambakis is a playwright, dramaturge, and director. She is known for many adaptations of novels, essays, and graphic novels for the stage. For example, she has worked with works by Vigdis Hjort, Endre Lund Eriksen, Beate Grimsrud, Astrid Lindgren, Olaug Nilssen, Janne Teller, etc. She has received the Heddaprisen…
Read moreTorvald Lervad
Torvald Lervad is a Danish writer and adapter.
Read moreToshiki Okada
TOSHIKI OKADA (b. in Yokohama in 1973) is a Japanese stage director and author, considered one of the leading voices of the artists of his gen¬eration. In 1997 he formed the theatre company Chelfitsch. Since then he has written and directed all the company’s productions, practicing a distinctive methodology for…
Read moreTracy Letts
Tracy Letts (b.1965) is an American playwright and actor who received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play “August: Osage County”. Letts was raised in Durant, Oklahoma and graduated from Durant High School in the early 1980s. He moved to Dallas, where he waited tables and worked in…
Read moreTrevor Griffiths
Trevor Griffiths (b. 1935) is an English dramatist. Raised as a Roman Catholic, he attended Saint Bede’s College, before being accepted into Manchester University in 1952 to read English. After a brief involvement with professional football and a year in National Service, he became a teacher. He became chairman of…
Read moreTrevor Nunn
Trevor Robert Nunn ( b. 1940) is an English theatre – and film director. He was educated from Downing College, Cambridge, where he began his stage career before becoming a trainee director at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry. In 1968 Nunn was appointed artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, a…
Read moreTrond Brænne
Born 31. July 1953 in Oslo, Norway Trond Brænne is author and actor. He has published several books for children and young people. Furthermore, he has written radio plays and lyrics for theatre plays. In 1993 he received the prize of the radio theatre called “The Blue Bird”.
Read moreTudor Gates
Tudor Gates (1930-2007) was an English screenwriter. In the early 1950s Gates was involved in stage management and began writing scripts in his spare time. After his TV-success “The Gunvor”, he took on writing full time. He wrote several screenplays for Hammer Film productions and several TV series, including “The…
Read moreTyler Coppin
Tyler Coppin (f. 1956) er en amerikansk-australsk skuespiller, dramatiker og dialektunderviser for skuespillere i film, tv og teater
Read moreUlla Jessen
Ulla Jessen, born 1946, is a Danish actor, director and playwright. She studied rhetoric at the University of Copenhagen and later acting at Gladsaxe Theatre in Copenhagen. She is a well known face in Danish television, film and theatre.
Read moreUlrich Hub
Ulrich Hub was born 1963 in Tübingen and studied acting in Hamburg. He was an actor for five years before turning to directing and writing stage plays and children’s books in 1993. His stage play and children’s book AN DER ARCHE UM ACHT has become a modern classic of children’s…
Read moreUrs Widmer
Urs Widmer, born in Basel in 1938 but for many years now an inhabitant of Zurich, is without doubt one of the most significant and versatile talents currently at work in the field of contemporary German-language literature as well as one of the most successful. His sales are invariably in…
Read moreUrsula Krechel
Ursula Krechel (b.1947) is a German writer. Krechel was born in Trier. From 1966 to 1972 she studied German studies, theatre, and art history at the University of Cologne. From 1969 to 1972, she worked as a drama advisor in Dortmund. After 1972, she lived in Frankfurt am Main for…
Read moreUrsula Rani Sarma
Irish-Indian playwright, born 1978. Ursula Rani Sarma studied at College Cork University where her first play TOUCHED was put up. Subsequently, it was received with great enthusiasm at the Edinburgh Festival. In 2001, Sarma staged her own play, BLUE at The Cork Opera House, and Josh Benathan then took it…
Read moreVáclav Havel
Václav Havel (1936-2011) was a Czech writer, playwright and politician. He had his breakthrough as a playwright in 1963 with the play GARDEN PARTY (ZAHRADÍ SLAVNOST). It was followed by MEMORANDUM (VYROZUMÊNI) from 1965, which is one of his most famous pieces. A central theme in his writing is the…
Read moreValerie Vigoda
VALERIE VIGODA (Co-Author – Book, Music and Lyrics) is the founding member of GrooveLily. Originally from McLean, Virginia, Valerie is a classically-trained musician, honours graduate of Princeton University, and former Army lieutenant. She has toured the world with Cyndi Lauper (opening for Tina Turner and Cher), Joe Jackson and the…
Read moreVassilij Sigarev
Wassily Sigarew was born in 1977 in Werknjaja Salda near Swerdlowsk in the Urals. He studied biochemistry in Nischni Tagil, but applied for a place at the Nikojai Koljada’s course of scriptwriting at the Institute of Theatre in Jekaterinenburg. Sigarew was accepted and he turned out to be one of…
Read moreVilhelm Topsøe
Vilhelm Topsøe (born 1944) is a Danish lawyer, novelist, playwright, biographer, journalist and politician.
Read moreVirginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941) was an English novelist, essayist, diarist, epistler, publisher, feminist, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of…
Read moreVivian Ellis
Vivian Ellis (1903 – 1996) was an English musical comedy composer best known for the song “Spread a Little Happiness” and the theme “Coronation Scot”.
Read moreVivian Nielsen
VIVIAN NIELSEN (born 1962) graduated from the theatre school of Aarhus Theatre in 1987 as an actress. She has performed at many Danish theatres, and she quickly became known as a versatile actress. Later, she trained as a director with Ralf Långbacka and as a screenwriter with Dara Mark. Today…
Read moreVladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was a multilingual Russian-American novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made contributions to entomology and had an interest in chess problems. Nabokov’s “Lolita” (1955) is frequently cited…
Read moreW. Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era, and reputedly, the highest paid author during the 1930s.
Read moreWallace Shawn
An endearing character player of film and TV also noted for his work as a serious and provocative playwright, Wallace Shawn made his acting debut on stage in his own translation of Machiavelli’s THE MANDRAKE in 1977. He made a brief but indelible first impression on screen two years later,…
Read moreWarren Casey
Composer Warren Casey is half of the team that created the music for the enduring Broadway hit musical GREASE. The production became a popular film in 1978 and starred John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.
Read moreWarren Coleman
Warren is a writer, director and actor who graduated from the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1979. Writing for film, theatre, television, radio and print Warren has seen much success.
Read moreWendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein (1950 – 2006) was an award-winning American playwright. She was the recipient of the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Wasserstein was born in Brooklyn, New York.Wasserstein’s first production of note was UNCOMMON WOMEN AND OTHERS (her graduate thesis at Yale). A full…
Read moreWerner Schwab
Werner Schwab (1958 -1994) was an Austrian playwright and visual artist. From 1978 to 1982 he studied sculpture at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna. During the 1980s he worked as a sculptor and woodcutter. Schwab’s first play Die Präsidentinnen was produced at the Theater im Künstlerhaus in Vienna…
Read moreWetle Holtan
Wetle Holtan (1970-2015) was a Norwegian writer who debuted with the collection of poems “The Autumn is an Excuse” in 1996. Holtan won the Ibsen Prize in 2003 for the play THOSE WHO LIVE. His works have been translated into English, French, Russian, Portuguese, Hungarian and Romanian.
Read moreWilfried Happel
Wilfried Happel (b. 1965) is a German Playwright, dramaturgist and theatre director resided in Köln and Berlin. Happel is educated in German language and philosophy and worked as a director assistant through a number of years for Jürgen Kruse, Brigitte Landes and Gustavo Frigerio among others. In 1994 he had…
Read moreWill Eno
Will Eno (B. 1965) is an American playwright based in Brooklyn, New York. His plays include Tragedy: a tragedy, The Flu Season, King: a problem play, Thom Pain (based on nothing), Middletown, Oh, the Humanity and other good intentions and an adaptation of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt titled Gnit. Although his…
Read moreWilliam F. Brown
Brown’s first Broadway credit was THE GIRL IN THE FREUDIAN SLIP opened in 1967. It starred Alan Young and Marjorie Lord. He contributed to New Faces of 1968. He also wrote the book for the off-Broadway musical HOW TO STEAL AN ELECTION which starred Clifton Davis. Brown also had sketches…
Read moreWilliam Finn
William Alan Finn (b. 1952, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American composer and lyricist, especially of musicals. William Finn grew up in Natick, Massachusetts with his parents and siblings, Michael and Nancy. He majored in music at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He lives with his life partner in New York…
Read moreWilliam Inge
Born on May 3, 1913, in Independence, Kansas, William Motter Inge was the youngest of five children. He would get his first taste of the theatre at an early age. The local boy scout troupe, of which Inge was a member, held its weekly meetings in a Civic Center which…
Read moreWilliam M. Hoffman
William M. Hoffman (b. 1939) is an American playwright, editor and educator. Born in New York City, Hoffman’s earliest works either were mounted in small, experimental off-off-Broadway theaters in New York City or remain unproduced. It was not until 1985 that he achieved critical acclaim and public recognition when the…
Read moreWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly VANITY FAIRr, a panoramic portrait of English society.
Read moreWilliam March
William March (1893–1954) was an American author and a highly decorated US Marine, called “the unrecognized genius of our time.” His novels intertwine his own personal torment with the conflicts spawned by unresolved class, family, sexual, and racial matters. March often presents characters who, through no fault of their own,…
Read moreWilliam Mastrosimone
William Mastrosimone made his debut with THE WOOLGATHERER in 1981 which later won the L.A. Drama Critics Award for Best Play of 1982. His plays have received numerous awards, including a 1992 Golden Globe Award, A New York Outer Critics Circle Award for the play EXTREMITIES, and a 1998 Roxanne…
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