Authors
Christian Torpe
Christian Torpe is one of Danish film’s leading screenwriters. He had his breakthrough with the Bodil-winning active euthanasia drama “Stille Hjerte”, which Bille August directed, and the two continued their collaboration on the critically acclaimed “Pagten” about Karen Blixen. He has won several international awards for his TV series “Rita”…
Read moreChristopher Adrian Jordan
Chris Jordan was born in 1947 and studied at both the Royal Academy of Music as well as New College of Speech and Drama in London and is a skilful actor, musician and composer. Jordan has been a prominent part of OIM (Odense International Music Theatre) having written most of…
Read moreChristopher Barnett
Christopher Barnett was born in Adélaïde in Australia. He is an author, poet, dramaturge and actor, who since 1976 has written no less than 25 plays and 6 books. Even for film 6 manuscripts have been delivered from his hand. In 1993 he moved to Nantes in France, where he…
Read moreChristopher Durang
Christopher Ferdinand Durang (b.1949) is an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. His work was especially popular in the 1980s.His work often deals critically with issues of child abuse, Roman Catholic dogma and culture, and homosexuality. His plays have been performed nationwide, including on Broadway…
Read moreChristopher Fry
Christopher Fry (1907 – 2005) was an English playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, notably The Lady’s Not for Burning, which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s.
Read moreChristopher Hampton
Christopher James Hampton (b. 1946) is an Academy Award-winning British playwright, screen writer and film director. He is best known for his play based on the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses and the film version Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and also more recently for writing the nominated screenplay for the film adaptation…
Read moreCindy Lou Johnson
Cindy Lou Johnson is an American director, producer and playwright, whose best known works include: Trusting Beatrice and Brilliant Traces.
Read moreClare Boothe Luce
Talented, wealthy, beautiful, and controversial, Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) is best remembered as a congresswoman, ambassador, playwright og socialite. Her most succesful work include THE WOMEN (1936), KISS THE BOYS GOODBYE (1938) and MARGIN FOR ERROR (1939).
Read moreClark Gesner
Clark Gesner (born March 27, 1938, in Augusta, Maine, died July 23, 2002, in downtown New York City)[1] was an American composer, songwriter, author, and actor. He is probably best known for composing You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, a musical adaptation of the Charles M. Schulz comic strip Peanuts.[2]…
Read moreClaus Flygare
Claus Flygare (born 1945) is a Danish director, screenwriter, and one of the country’s most prominent film and theater actors. In the 1970s, Flygare wrote lyrics for the socially critical rock group, Jomfru Ane Band. In 1983, he co-founded the Mammutteateret in Copenhagen, which became one of the most innovative…
Read moreClemens Legolas Telling MC Clemens
Clemens Legolas Telling (born 1979) is an award winning Danish rapper, playwright, lyricist and TV personality, who has released several acclaimed albums and written the text material for a growing number of sold out musical and chorographical works which have been performed worldwide. Før Broen (Before The Bridge) from 2009…
Read moreClement Scott Gilbert
Clement Scott (1841–1904) was an influential English theatre critic for the Daily Telegraph, and a playwright and travel writer, in the final decades of the 1800s. His style of criticism – acerbic, flowery, and (perhaps most importantly) carried out on the first night of productions, set the standard for theatre…
Read moreClifford Odets
Clifford Odets (1906-1963) was born in Philadelphia. After graduating from high school he became an actor and in 1931 joined the Group Theatre. Turning his attention from acting to playwriting, Odets soon came to be regarded as the most gifted of the American social-protest dramatists of the 1930s. His first…
Read moreCody Philip
CODY PHILIP (Lyrics) is a renowned lyricist, having written, among other songs, “Laughter In The Rain”, “Bad Blood”, “Solitaire”, “The Immigrant”, and “Love In The Shadows” – all with music by Neil Sedaka, as well as “Ring Ring” (written with Sedkaka, as well as Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, and Stig…
Read moreCole Porter
Cole Albert Porter (1891 – 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. His works include the musical comedies KISS ME, KATE, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN, DUBARRY WAS A LADY and ANYTHING GOES, as well as songs like “NIGHT AND DAY,” “I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU,” “WELL, DID YOU EVAh!”…
Read moreColette
Colette Marchand (b.1925) is a French dancer and actress. Marchand performed as a première ballerina on Broadway: Roland Petit’s Les Ballets de Paris (1949 & 1950) and Two on the Aisle (1951). Marchand was cast in the role of “Marie Charlet” for the British movie Moulin Rouge (1952), for which…
Read moreColin Escott
Colin Escott (Co-Author) Born in England, Colin Escott lives near Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of Good Rockin’ Tonight: Sun Records and the Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll, the first in-depth account of the Sun Records story. His book Hank Williams – The Biography has been adapted into the movie…
Read moreColin Higgins
Colin Higgins (1941 – 1988) was an American screenwriter, actor, director, and producer. He was best known for writing the screenplay for the 1971 film Harold and Maude.
Read moreColleen McCullough
Colleen McCullough was born in Australia. A neuropathologist, she established the department of neurophysiology at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney before working as a researcher and teacher at Yale Medical School for ten years. Her writing career began with the publication of Tim, followed by The Thorn Birds,…
Read moreConor McPherson
Conor McPherson was born in Dublin in 1970. His plays include RUM AND VODKA, THE GOOD THIEF, ST NICHOLAS, THE WEIR, A DUBLIN CAROL, and THIS LIME TREE BOWER. These are published as THIS LIME TREE BOWER (London, Nick Hern Books, 1996), ST. NICHOLAS and THE WEIR (Dublin, New Island…
Read moreCornelia Otis Skinner
Skinner, Cornelia Otis (1901-1979) American author and actress Cornelia Otis Skinner was renowned as a sublime comic talent and gifted character actress. After attending Bryn Mawr College and studying acting at the Sorbonne, she appeared in the dramatic play BLOOD AND SAND on Broadway in 1921. She appeared in five…
Read moreCraig Bohmler
CRAIG BOHMLER (b. 1956) is a composer/pianist/conductor whose works have been widely performed in North America and Europe. He is primarily a composer for musicals. Bohmler has seven musicals and three operas to his credit as well as numerous choral works and songs. GUNMETAL BLUES (Wentworth and Adler) was presented…
Read moreCraig Lucas
Craig Lucas (born on April 30, 1951 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, musical actor, and film director. He is currently Associate Artistic Director at the Intiman Theatre in Seattle. As a newborn Lucas was found abandoned in a car in Atlanta. Lucas was adopted when…
Read moreCy Coleman
Jazz pianist and prolific composer who wrote dozens of Broadway show tunes and scored several Hollywood films. His most memorable songs include “Witchcraft” and “The Best Is Yet to Come.”
Read moreD. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Richards Lawrence (1885 –1930) was an English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, human sexuality and instinct. Lawrence’s opinions earned…
Read moreD. L. Coburn
D.L. Coburn (b. 1938) is an American playwright; best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Gin Game, in which two senior citizens, a man and a woman, play a series of games of gin rummy, revealing different aspects of their personalities, all the while. The play also won several…
Read moreDacia Maraini
Dacia Maraini (b.1936) is an Italian writer. She is the daughter of Sicilian Princess Topazia Alliata di Salaparuta, an artist and art dealer, and of Fosco Maraini, a Florentine ethnologist and mountaineer of mixed Ticinese, English and Polish background who wrote in particular on Tibet and Japan. Maraini’s work focuses…
Read moreDale Wasserman
Dale Wasserman has served the theatre for over 50 years. In earlier days he roamed America as a hobo, riding freight trains and thereby avoiding any formal education whatsoever. At nineteen he gravitated into the theatre where he cut his teeth on every conceivable job – stage manager, lighting designer,…
Read moreDan Goggin
Dan Goggin is an American writer, composer, and lyricist for musical theatre. Goggin began his career as a singer in the Broadway production of Luther. He then toured for five years as a member of the folksinging duo, The Saxons, before writing the music for and appearing in the off-Broadway…
Read moreDan Schlosser
Dan Schlosser (b. 1956) is a Danish actor and writer. He wrote his first revue text at the age of fourteen and since then, he has written a number of both big and small plays for instance the rock musical BE-BOP-A-LULA.
Read moreDaniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann (b. 1975) is a German author and playwright. He has both German and Austrian citizenship. His novel Die Vermessung der Welt (in English Measuring of the World) from 2005 is the best-selling German-language novel since Patrick Süskinds Das Parfum (1985) and according to the New York Times the…
Read moreDaniel Wedel
Daniel Wedel (born 1965) is a Danish director trained at the Danish National School of Theatre between 1991 – 1995. He has worked a lot with documentary fiction in the radio media but also at theatres.
Read moreDanny Apolinar
Danny Apolinar, a native of Brooklyn, worked as a freelance graphic artist in the 1950’s. Later, he composed cabaret songs and frequently performed as a singer and pianist, first at the Duplex in Greenwich Village in 1960 and later — alone or with the Danny Apolinar Trio — in cabarets…
Read moreDante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was an Italian writer and politician. Dante is considered to be among the greatest authors in the European literature; Homer, Shakespeare, and Goethe. His main work “The Devine comedy” is an epic poetry about a journey through the land of dead.
Read moreDaphne du Maurier
English novelist, biographer, and playwright, who published romantic suspense novels, mostly set on the coast of Cornwall. Du Maurier is best known for REBECCA (1938), filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940. Orson Welles’s radio adaptation from 1938 also paved way for the success. The novel has been characterized as the…
Read moreDario Fo
A popular and controversial playwright, actor and director, Dario Fo has earned international acclaim for his political satires and farces. Often considered the rightful heir of Aristophanes, Fo has led the field in political satire in Europe for over thirty years. The main targets of his ideologically inspired attacks have…
Read moreDave Freeman
Dave Freeman was born in London in 1922. He worked as a stage electrician until the outbreak of war when he joined the Royal Navy for seven years. He then joined the London Metropolitan police until recalled to the Navy in 1951 for the Korean War. After leaving the Navy…
Read moreDavid Allen
David Allen (b. 1936) is an Australian playwright. He is notable for his play Cheapside, which has been shown at the Warehouse Theatre and the White Barn Theatre. Other plays include Gone with Hardy. Allen was educated at Liverpool University and gained an honours degree in English Language and Literature.
Read moreDavid Almond
DAVID ALMOND (b. 1951) is a British author of children’s and young adults’ literature. He has won the prestigious biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award and at the 70th anniversary of the British Carnegie Medal, SKELLIG (1998) was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works, selected by a panel…
Read moreDavid Edgar
David Edgar (b. 1948) is a British playwright and author, who has had more than sixty of his plays published and performed on stage, radio and television around the world, making him one of the most prolific dramatists of the post-1960s generation in Great Britain. He was resident playwright at…
Read moreDavid Evans
DAVID EVANS (Music and Co-bookwriter) received a Drama Desk Nomination for his score for Off-Broadway’s BIRDS OF PARADISE (written with Winnie Holzman and directed by Arthur Laurents). He has written nine musicals for Theatreworks USA and two musicals for TADA. His show, CHILDREN’S LETTERS TO GOD (Lyrics: Douglas Cohen, Book:…
Read moreDavid Fishelson
David Fishelson is the founder and artistic director of The Manhattan Ensemble Theater. He has made stage adaptations of two of Dostoevsky’s novels; THE KARAMAZOV BROTHERS and THE IDIOT as well as of Kafka’s THE CASTLE that was nominated by The 2002 Outer Critics Circle for Best Off-Broadway Play and…
Read moreDavid Greig
David Greig (1969), Scottish playwright and theater director. He studied English and drama at the University of Bristol and has been staged at several of the most important British theaters. Many of his texts have been published.
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