Authors

Vivian Ellis (1903 – 1996) was an English musical comedy composer best known for the song “Spread a Little Happiness” and the theme “Coronation Scot”.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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,…

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…

William Saroyan was an internationally renowned Armenian-American writer, playwright and humanitarian. His fame, and his most enduring achievements as a writer, date from the 1930’s. He dazzled, entertained and uplifted millions, with hundreds of short stories, plays, novels, memoirs and essays; they continue to charm and touch us today. Saroyan’s…

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a…

Willis Hall (1929 – 2005) was an English playwright and radio and television writer who drew on his working class Leeds roots in much of his material. His most famous creation was probably BILLY LIAR (1960), co-written with life-long friend and collaborator Keith Waterhouse. However, his rise to fame came…

Wolfgang Kudrnofsky, born in Vienna in 1927, has degrees in psychology and anthropology. Since 1950 he has written several plays, novels and travel books. In addition, he is most keen on photography and film exhibits, at home and abroad.

American motion-picture director, screenwriter, actor, and author, best known for his bittersweet comic films containing elements of parody, slapstick, and the absurd. He is also known as a sympathetic director for women, writing strong and well-defined characters for them. Much of Allen’s comic material derives from his urban Jewish middle-class…

Mr. Udoff is a playwright and screenwriter. The NY Times said of his A GUN PLAY, directed by Paul Weidner, which premiered at The Hartford Stage Company: “Mr. Udoff is a discovery. It is clear he has a comic vision, verbal facility and a contemporary consciousness.” He has twice been…

Yukio Mishima was the pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka (1925– 1970), a Japanese author, poet and playwright, also remembered for his ritual suicide by seppuku. Mishima was a disciplined and versatile writer. He wrote not only novels, popular serial novellas, short stories and literary essays, but also highly acclaimed plays…

Belgium playwright

Yves Henri Michel Navarre, French novelist and playwright, was born 24 September 1940 in Condom, Gascony, France. He earned degrees in Spanish, English, and modern literature from the Universite de Lille III in 1961 and 1964 and attended Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales du Nord in 1964. He began submitting…