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George Gershwin
George Gershwin (1898-1937) was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin’s compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works, including more than a dozen Broadway shows, in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin.…
Read moreGeorge Haimsohn
George Haimsohn (1926-2003) who co-wrote the book and lyrics for ”Dames at Sea,” a musical that has leavened summer stock and college repertories ever since its Off Broadway debut in 1968. He was born in St. Louis and served in the Navy in World War II. He graduated from the…
Read moreGeorge Orwell
George Orwell was the pseudonym of the English writer Eric Arthur Blair. Blair was born on June 25, 1903 in Mothari, Bengal to Richard Walmesley Blair, a Government of India employee in the Opium Department, and Ida Mabel Limouzin. In 1904, Ida moved with Eric and his older sister Marjorie…
Read moreGeorge S. Kaufman
George Simon Kaufman (November 16, 1889 – June 2, 1961) was an American playwright, theatre director and producer, humorist, and drama critic. In addition to comedies and political satire, he wrote several musicals, notably for the Marx Brothers. One play and one musical that he wrote won the Pulitzer Prize…
Read moreGeorges Bernanos
Bernanos, Georges, 1888 – 1948, French novelist and polemicist. Profoundly Catholic, Bernanos attacked modern materialism and advocated a moral and ethical order based on the teachings of the Church. His novels THE STAR OF SATAN and THE DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST are powerful accounts of intense spiritual struggle and…
Read moreGerald Alessandrini
GERALD ALESSANDRINI (Creator and Writer) is the recipient of the 2001 Drama Desk Award for Best Musical Revue for FORBIDDEN BROADWAY. He is best known for writing and directing all the editions of FORBIDDEN BROADWAY and FORBIDDEN HOLLYWOOD, in New York, Los Angeles, London and around the world. Gerard was…
Read moreGerald Jay Markoe
GERALD JAY MARKOE (Music) is a classically trained musician with a wide variety of experience in music for theatre, Popular music, world music and music for Yoga and meditation. His formal training was at the Juilliard and Manhattan Schools of Music (Bachelors and Masters degrees). His scores for off-off and…
Read moreGérald Sibleyras
Gérald Sibleyras is a renowned French playwright born in 1961 in Paris. His plays have been performed throughout the world. Le Vent des Peupliers. The play premiered at the Théâtre Montparnasse in Paris (2003) and received four Molières nominations (Best Play, Best Comedy, Best Actor and Best Author). Tom Stoppard…
Read moreGérard Lauzier
Gérard Lauzier (1932 – 2008) was a French comics author and movie director, best known as one of the leading authors in the more adult-oriented French comics scene of the 1970s and 1980s. In later years, he became a film director, sometimes with movies based on his comics or on…
Read moreGerome Ragni
Gerome Bernard Ragni (1935-1991) was an American actor, singer and songwriter, best known as the co-author of the groundbreaking 1960s American tribal love-rock musical Hair.
Read moreGerz Feigenberg
Gerz Feigenberg was born in 1956 in Copenhagen. In 1969 he moved to Israel with his family and they returned in 1971. In 1976 he graduated from his studies of Drama at university followed by a three year period from 1978 – 1981 when he trained as an actor at…
Read moreGesine Danckwart
Gesine Danckwart was born in Elmshorn and grew up in the countryside near Lübeck, and then worked in various capacities at theatres in Vienna, Mülheim, and Berlin. She set up a place for alternative theatre in the Moabit district of Berlin. Work on her own pieces developed out of directing…
Read moreGianina Carbunariu
Gianina Carbunariu (b. 1977) is a Rumanian playwright and director. Since her debut in 2003 with “Stop the tempo” she has received national and international acclaim and has directed in Rumania, Poland, Germany, Ireland, Bulgaria and France etc. After finishing her studies at the University of Bucharest she launched the…
Read moreGilbert Wakefield
Gilbert Wakefield (1756 – 1801), scholar and controversialist, born at Nottingham, educated at Cambridge. He was a strong defender of the French Revolution, and was imprisoned for two years for writing a seditious pamphlet. He published editions of various classical writers, and among his theological writings are EARLY CHRISTIAN WRITERS…
Read moreGiles Cooper
Giles Stannus Cooper (1918 – 1966) was a prolific radio dramatist, writing over sixty scripts for BBC radio and later television. He was awarded an OBE for “services to broadcasting” in 1960. A dozen years after his death at only 48 the Giles Cooper Awards for radio drama were instituted…
Read moreGilla Cremer
Gilla Cremer is a German actress, dramatist and producer. She was first trained by Eugenio Barba at Odin Teatret’s ISTA; International School of Theatre Anthropology followed by Günther Einbrodt from the Tabori Group and lastly by the Argentinean director, Augusto Fernandez. In 1982, together with a group of artists, she…
Read moreGina Gionfriddo
Gina Gionfriddo (b. 1969) is an American playwright and television writer. For her writing she has received an Obie Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She graduated from Barnard College and also completed Brown University’s MFA playwriting program where…
Read moreGloria Bruni
Gloria Bruni was born in Oschersleben, in Bode, East Germany, and currently lives in Hamburg. While studying as a singer Bruni also played the violin in the “Camerata Accademica” and in the Salzburger Mozarteum Sommer-Akademie-Orchester, touring to the Carnegie Hall New York, and the Kennedy Centre Washington. As composer/soprano she…
Read moreGore Vidal
Birthplace: West Point, New York Gore Vidal made a name for himself right after World War II with his first few novels, especially WILLIWAW (1946) and THE CITY AND THE PILLAR (1948). Since then he has become one of America’s foremost celebrity authors, famous for his prose, his intelligence and…
Read moreGrace Barnes
GRACE BARNES (Book) comes from Scotland and her plays include: LAVENDAR BLUE (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), ANGELS’ WINGS (Oran Mor, Glasgow), adaptations of TRUMPET by Jackie Kay (Drill Hall, London and Scottish tour), and R L Stevenson’s TREASURE ISLAND (Pitlochry Festival Theatre). Other work includes: WAVE ME GOODBYE (Theatre Workshop, Edinburgh),…
Read moreGraham Swannell
He has written extensively for radio and co-authored Diamond Behind My Eyes with his wife in 1997. His first play was a musical about the Ipswich Town Football club in 1974. After A State of Affairs (1985) he wrote The Light of Day (1987), Marrakech (1989), The Border (1990) and…
Read moreGreg Cullen
Greg Cullen is a British playwright, director and actor. From 1979-83 Cullen worked variously as an actor, director and writer with The East End Theatre Group, Harlow Theatre Van, Chats Palace Community Arts Centre Hackney and The Grove Theatre Hammersmith. In the following year he was appointed writer in residence…
Read moreGudmundur Steinsson
Guðmundur Steinsson (April 19, 1925 – July 15, 1996) was one of the primary playwrights in Iceland in the 20th century. He was born in Eyrarbakka (South of Iceland) and became a student in 1946. The next decade he spent abroad, studying and traveling, and later he worked as a…
Read moreGudrun Helgadottir
Gudrun Helgadottir (born 1935) is an award winning Icelandic novelist, playwright and politician.
Read moreGunilla Thorgren
Gunilla Margareta Thorgren (born 1943) is a Swedish journalist, playwright and politician.
Read moreGustav Ernst
Gustav Ernst (b. 1944) is an Austrian playwright, novelist and screenwriter. He has also founded and edited two literary journals, Wespennest and kolik. Ernst was born in Vienna, where he read Philosophy, Psychology and History at the University of Vienna. He lives in Leopoldstadt. His plays include: Ein irrer Haß…
Read moreGustav Wied
Very few Danish writers as Gustav Wied have been convincing as both prose writer and dramatist. Novel and short story writer Wied portrayed dazzling and satirical the Danish provinces with its eccentrics and dreamers and gave us the immortal characters such as customs officer Knagsted, senior teacher Clausen and the…
Read moreGuy Bolton
American playwright and librettist perhaps best known for his witty and articulate librettos, on which he collaborated with such notables as P.G. Wodehouse, George Middleton, and Fred Thompson. In collaboration with P.G. Wodehouse and others, he wrote dozens of scripts scored by composers such as Jerome Kern (OH BOY! 1917),…
Read moreH. C. Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen was born April the 2nd 1805, and died August 4th 1875. He was born into poverty in Odense, Denmark, and went to Copenhagen and the age of 14, hoping to establish a theatrical career. He joined the choir at The Danish Royal Theatre. Subsequently, he was to…
Read moreHåkon Berge
Håkon Berge (born April 22, 1954 in Stavanger) is a Norwegian composer, conductor, arranger and music administrator, residing in Kristiansand. He was educated at the Oslo Music Conservatory and at the Norwegian School of Music. Berge has contributed to productions at Rogaland Theatre, Den Nationale Scene and the National Theatre…
Read moreHal David
“Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head”, “This Guy’s in Love With You”, and “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again”, are just three of the hits in a string of standards written by Academy Award-winning lyricist Hal David. “Raindrops”, which was in the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, garnered…
Read moreHal Hackady
Hal Hackady is an American lyricist, librettist, and screenwriter.Hackady’s theatrical career began with the 1955 Broadway revue ALMOST CRAZY starring Kay Medford, for which he wrote sketches and lyrics. Additional Broadway credits include MINNIE’S BOYS, GOODTIME CHARLEY, AMBASSADOR and TEDDY & ALICE. In 1975, Hackady wrote the lyrics for SNOOPY…
Read moreHans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen (April 2, 1805, in Odense – August 4, 1875 at rest in Copenhagen) was a Danish poet and author who is world famous for his fairy tales. He was known for his bouquets and paper clips, and is believed to have invented the merged Danish Christmas heart…
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