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A. R. Gurney

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…

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Aaron Leichter

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Abe Burrows

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,…

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Abelone Koppel

ABELONE KOPPEL (b. 1963) is a Danish actress, author and playwright with degrees from The Danish National School of Performing Arts and The National Film School of Denmark. As an actress she has performed at Betty Nansen Teatret, Det Ny Teater, Taastrup Teater og Rialto Teatret, to name a few.…

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Abi Morgan

Abi Morgan (1968) is a BAFTA and EMMA award-winning Welsh playwright and TV / film writer studying drama and literature at Exeter University and later taking a postgraduate writing course at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Her work has been performed at some of the most important British theaters and…

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Ad de Bont

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…

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Adam Long

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Adam Oehlenschläger

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Adam Price

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…

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Adam Rapp

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,…

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Adde Malmberg

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…

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Adolph Green

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.

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Adrian Mitchell

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…

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Adriano Shaplin

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Agatha Christie

Born on September 15, 1890, in Torquay, England, Agatha Christie published her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920, and went on to become one of the most famous writers in history. She sold billions of copies of her work, and was also a noted playwright and romance author.…

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Agnar Mykle

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.

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Agnès Jaoui

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…

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Agota Kristof

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Aischylos

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Åke Cato

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Åke Englund

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Aki Kaurismäki

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…

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Aksel Erhardsen

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.

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Al Blyth

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Al Dubin

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,…

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Alan Ayckbourn

English playwright and artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, England, from 1970. His abundant output, characterized by comic dialogue and teasing experiments in dramatic structure, includes RELATIVELY SPEAKING (1967), ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR (1973), THE NORMAN CONQUESTS (1974; a trilogy), JOKING APART (1979), INTIMATE EXCHANGES (1982), A WOMAN IN…

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Alan Ball

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…

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Alan Bennett

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…

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Alan Blaikley

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Alan Bleasdale

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.

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Alan Bowne

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.

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Alan Harris

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…

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Alan Jay Lerner

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.…

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Alan Menken

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…

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Alan Price

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…

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Alan Rickman

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Alan Seymour

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Alan Shearman

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.

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Alan Stevens Hewitt

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Alan Strachan

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Alan Zachary

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Alban Nikolai Herbst

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Albert Camus

Albert Camus was born by French parents in Algeria in 1913, but moved to France in 1940, where he became active in the French resistance. It was here that he met the philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre. Camus and Sartre became two of the most prominent writers developing modern existential philosophy and…

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Albert Hackett

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…

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Albert Husson

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Albert Wichmann

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…

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Alberto Bassetti

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Aldous Huxley

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…

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Alec Guinness

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Aleksa Okanovic

ALEKSA OKANOVIC (b. 1973) was born in Belgrade, but grew up in Denmark, where he graduated from The Danish National School of Playwriting in 2003. In the following years, he studied philosophy at the University of Copenhagen and subsequent studied at the film school in Prague. Already at the age…

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Aleksandr Ostrovskij

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.

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Aleksej Arbuzov

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…

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Alessandro Baricco

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Alexander Dinelaris

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…

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Alexander Knott

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Alexander Moberg

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Alexander Wrede Elung

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Alexandra Badea

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Alexandra Schmiedebach

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Alexandre Breffort

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Alexandre de la Patellière

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Alexandre Dumas, père

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Alexi Kaye Campbell

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Alexis Michalik

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Alfonso Paso

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Alfonso Sastre

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Alfred Gehri

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Alfred Grünwald

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…

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Alfred Hitchcock

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Alfred Uhry

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…

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Alfred Werner

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Alice Birch

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Alil Vardar

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Alistair Beaton

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.

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Allan Katz

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.…

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Allan Miller

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…

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Allan Mortensen

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Allan Turpin

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Allee Willis

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Allen Lewis Rickman

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Amanda Green

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Amanda Lasker-Berlin

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Amir Nizar Zuabi

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Anders Baggesen

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Anders Berglund

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.

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Anders Budde Christensen

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Anders Dohn

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Anders Jacobsson

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.

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Anders Koppel

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Anders Rønnow Klarlund

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.…

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Anders Thomas Jensen

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…

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André Birabeau

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André Gide

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André Gregory

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André Josset

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André Maheux

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André Obey

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.

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Andreas Boonstra

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Andreas Dalsgaard

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Andreas Garfield

Andreas Garfield (1976) is a Danish playwright, who achieved prominence with his debut play “Home Sweet Home,” which was a sensation in 2007 when it premiered at Teater Grob in Copenhagen, a well-known venue for experimental theater and new work. Since then, Teater Grob has toured the play around Denmark.…

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