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A. R. Gurney (Albert Ramsdell Gurney Jr.) (b. 1930) is an American playwright and novelist. The playwright is known for works including Love Letters, The Cocktail Hour, and The Dining Room. He was born in Buffalo, New York, and as a graduate of St. Paul’s School (Concord, New Hampshire), he…

Songwriter, composer, writer, panelist, director, singer and pianist. He began his writing career as a script writer for “Duffy’s Taven” on radio, and later, the Rudy Vallee programme. He wrote the Broadway librettos for “GUYS AND DOLLS”, received a Tony award and a New York Drama Critics award in 1951,…

Abi Morgan was born i 1968 in Cardiff, Wales and is one of Britten’s most promising young playwrights. She has written several books for tv and film as well as several plays: SLEEPING AROUND (1998) together with Mark Ravenhill, SKINNED (1998), FAST FOOD (1999), SPLENDOUR (2000), TINY DYNAMITE (2001) and…

Ad de Bont was born on 9 May 1949. In 1972 he graduated as a drama teacher and went on to study at the Cabaret Academy in Amsterdam. In 1975, after spending a few years in the classroom, he began working as an actor, director and writer for young people’s…

Adam Price (born 1967) is a Danish scriptwriter, playwright and food critic. He studied law at The University of Copenhagen between 1986-1990. He has written several satire and drama series for the television and was editor in chief at TV 2’s drama department between 2001-2005. He has written a number…

Adam Rapp is a novelist, filmmaker, playwright and director. In 2006, he was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his play Red Light Winter. His other plays include Bingo with the Indians, Kindness, American Sligo, Nocturne, Blackbird, Stone Cold Dead Serious, Finer Noble Gases, Essential Self Defense, Trueblinka,…

ADDE MALMBERG (born in Lund, 1955) is one of the most beloved and experienced stand-up-comedians of Sweden. A founding member of the ‘Stand Up Comedy Klub’ (SUCK) in Stockholm in 1988 he was instrumental in introducing the very concept of stand-up comedy in Sweden. In the following years he became…

Adolph Green (1914 – 2002) was an American lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved movie musicals: ”Singin’ in the Rain”, Say, Darling”, ”The Will Rogers Follies”, ”Applause”, ”Do Re Mi” and many more.

Adrian Mitchell was born in London and studied at Oxford University where he passed most of his time learning to write poems. After leaving University, Adrian spent several years as a journalist and his great claim to fame is that he was the first reporter on a national paper to…

Agnar Mykle (1915-1994) was a Norwegian author and one of the steadiest stylists in modern Norwegian writing with a combination of lyrical prose and a realism rich in words.

Agnès Jaoui (b. 1964) is a French screenwriter, film director, actress and singer of Tunisian Jewish descent. She frequently works in collaboration with her husband Jean-Pierre Bacri. Her screenplays include: Smoking/No Smoking (1993), Cuisine et dépendances (1993), Un air de famille (1996), On connaît la chanson (1997), The Taste of…

Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (b. 1957) is a Finish film director. He had his debut in 1981 and attracted a lot of attention with his disrespectful screen version of the Dostoyevsky novel “Crime and Punishment “(1983). In the following years he has directed a number of films and is known for…

Aksel Erhardsen (born 1927) en a popular Danish actor and director trained at Odense Theatre School 1953 – 1955. He has worked at all major Danish theatres as well playing in several films and television productions.

In tandem with composer Harry Warren, lyricist Al Dubin enjoyed a remarkable run of hits throughout the 1930s, authoring standards like “We’re in the Money,” “I Only Have Eyes for You,” and “Lullaby of Broadway.” Alexander Dubin was born June 10, 1891, in Zurich, Switzerland, but raised primarily in Philadelphia,…

Alan Ball grew up in Marietta, Georgia. He studied theatre at Florida State University focusing mostly on acting and scriptwriting. After his graduation, he moved to New York where he began working as art director on several trade magazines. In addition, his play FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS was…

English dramatist and screenwriter. His works treat, with macabre, gruesome comedy, such subjects as class, senility, illness, and death. They include the series of monologues for television TALKING HEADS (1987) and TALKING HEADS II (1998), and the play THE MADNESS OF GEORGE III (1991), made into the critically acclaimed film…

Alan Bleasdale (b. 1946) is an English television dramatist, best known for writing several social realist drama serials based on the lives of ordinary people.

Alan Bowne (1945-1989) was an American playwright and author. He was a member of the New Dramatists. He wrote a number of plays including Beirut, Forty-Deuce, Sharon and Billy, and The Beany and Cecil Show, many of which are available from Broadway Play Publishing Inc.

Alan Harris is a Welsh playwright. His work has been staged across the globe from London to Washington and Tokyo. In 2011 he set up Liveartshow, a company specialising in new theatre with music. The company staged MANGA SISTER, a contemporary dance opera, at The Yard, London and the same…

Alan Jay Lerner (1918 – 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world’s most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film. He won three Tony Awards and three Academy Awards, among other honors.…

Alan Menken (b. 1949) is an American musical theatre and film composer and pianist.Menken is best known for his numerous scores for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, most notably, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Pocahontas, all of which won him at least one Academy…

Alan Price (b. 1942) is a British musician, best known as the original keyboardist for the English band The Animals. He is also known for his solo work. Price is a self-taught musician and was a founding member of the Tyneside group The Alan Price Rhythm and Blues Combo, which…

Alan Shearman is an American actor, writer, director and playwright. His plays include Footlight Frenzy, Bullshot Crummond, El Grande Coca-Cola and The Scandalous Adventures of Sir Toby Trollope.

Albert Maurice Hackett (1900 – 1995) was an American dramatist and screenwriter most noted for his collaborations with his partner and wife Frances Goodrich. Not long after marrying Frances Goodrich, the couple went to Hollywood in the late 1920s to write the screenplay for their stage success Up Pops the…

Albert Wichmann is a director, actor, producer and manager as well as sponsor and fund-raiser in cultural and business matters. Albert Wichmann is educated at the Aarhus Teater’s school, Denmark 1970/71 and Statens Teaterskole 1972/73. From 1971 – 72 he worked as an actor at Det Danske Teater. He has…

Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 – 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963. Best known for his novels…

Aleksandr Nikolaevitj Ostrovskij (1823-1886) was a Russian playwright. He is considered to be a pioneer within Russian theatre and wrote more than 40 plays between 1850-1885.

Born in Moscow in May 26, 1908. His father was Russian and his mother Greek. His first contact with theatre was in 1922, when he was hired as an extra at the Marinski Theatre of St. Petersburg. He developed his skills in a theatre studio (1924) and the following year…

ALEXANDER DINELARIS (Additional Book and Lyrics) was nominated for two Drama Desk Awards in 2003 for his work on the book and lyrics for the Off-Brodway hit, ZANNA, DON’T! His critically acclaimed play THE CHAOS THEORIES played to sold out audiences, and was a top pick of the 2004 New…

Alfred Grünwald (1884-1951) was an Austrian author, librettist, and lyricist. Some of his better-known works were written in conjunction with the composers Franz Lehár, Emmerich Kalman, Oscar Straus, Paul Abraham, and Robert Stolz. Alfred Grünwald worked for a theatrical agency before turning to libretto writing. A number of Grünwald’s librettos…

Alfred Fox Uhry (born December 3, 1936) is an American playwright best known for the play and screenplay of DRIVING MISS DAISY. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Uhry graduated from Brown University. Uhry’s early work for the stage was as a lyricist and librettist for a number of musicals, including AMERICA’S…

Alistair Beaton (b. 1947) is a Scottish left wing political satirist, journalist, radio presenter, novelist and television writer. At one point in his career he was also a speechwriter for Gordon Brown. Born in Glasgow, Beaton was educated at the Universities of Edinburgh, Moscow and Bochum.

Allan Katz, born in Chicago, is a writer, producer, actor, and director. He began his writing career as an advertising copywriter. In 1970 he created the original award-winning campaign for the popcorn snack Screaming Yellow Zonkers which was the first major product to be packaged in a predominantly black box.…

Allan Miller has produced 32 productions, including A WOMAN OF INDEPENDENT MEANS, FOUND A PEANUTS, A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE, THE VOICE OF THE PRAIRIE. He has directed 16 productions including ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN, THE FOX, IN THE SWEET BYE EN BUY, JACQUES BREL…

Anders Berglund (born 1948 in Stockholm) is a Swedish composer, cunductor, pianist and musician. In the mid 70’s he was a member of the band Blue Swede. He has arranged and written the music for several films and musicals.

Anders Jacobson (b. 1963) is a Swedish writer, who has written youth novels and TV-series together with his cousin Sören Olsson. Furthermore the two cousins have written pop music together in their band Hemliga byrån.

Anders Rønnow Klarlund (b. 1971) is a Danish film director. Klarlund made his debut with his experimental film The Eighteens (1996) and in 1999 followed the occult thriller Possessed. In 2004 Klarlund directed the well- reviewed puppet-film Strings, which by others led to his receipt of the Citizen Kane Award.…

Anders Thomas Jensen (b. 1972) was already interested in film in his early teen-years. In grammar school he met and teamed up with Tomas Villum Jensen and from 1996-1998 he wrote three short films: Ernst and the light, Wolfgang and Election Night, which all were nominated for an Oscar, the…

André Obey was a French dramatist. He was born 8 May 1892 in Douai. Between 1931 and 1933 he wrote four plays for the Théâtre de Vieux-Colombier, winning the Brieux prize for LA BATAILLE DE LA MARNE in 1931. He died 14 April 1975.

Andrew Bovell was born at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia and currently lives in Soth Australia. His SWGIE award-winning play SPEAKING IN TONGUES (1996) has been seen throughout Australia as well as in Europe and the US and Bovell adapted it for the screen as LANTANA (2001). Both the play and screenplay…

Andrew Hannan comes from Plymouth, England. From 1977 to 1980, he studied music at the Oxford University and has lived since 1983 as a freelance composer, arranger, pianist, musical director and songwriter in Berlin. He worked in Berlin at the Neukölln Opera (“Bizet Lounge – Die Perlen Fischer”, “Cox +…

Andrew Lloyd Webber is the composer of The Likes of Us, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, By Jeeves, Evita, Variations and Tell Me on a Sunday later combined as Song & Dance, Cats, Starlight Express, The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, Whistle…