A playwright , also called a dramatist and dramaturge , is a person who writes play theatre play s. The term is not a variant spelling of playwrite , but something quite distinct the word wikt wright wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder as in a wheelwright or cartwright . Hence the prefix and the suffix combine to indicate someone who has wrought words, themes, and other elements into a dramatic form, someone who crafts plays. The homophone with write is in this case entirely coincidental. Early playwrights and playwriting theory The earliest playwrights in Western literature with surviving works are the Ancient Greek s. These early plays were written for annual Athens Athenian competitions among playwrights ref Fraser, Neil. Theatre History Explained , The Cowood Press , 2004, page 11 ref held around the 5th century BC. Such notables as Aeschylus , Sophocles , Euripides , and Aristophanes established forms still relied on by their modern counterparts. For the Greeks, the playwright was poeisis the act of making plays. So the poet had a different connotation than it does today. Aristotle s Poetics In the 4th Century BC, Aristotle wrote his Poetics Aristotle Poetics , the first play writing manual. In this benchmark text, Aristotle establishes the principle ... of study by any playwright today. It provides the basis of the conflict driven play, a term we still ... a causal stream of discoveries and reversals. The term playwright appears to have been coined by Ben Jonson in his Epigram 49, To Playwright , ref http www.luminarium.org sevenlit jonson epigram49.htm ... the 17th century, dwelled upon the unities, of action, place, and time. This meant that the playwright ... tool, and can let the playwright know exactly how much a particular character is involved in the action ... References reflist External links wiktionary playwright Wikiversity Collaborative play writing http ... no Dramatiker ro Dramaturg simple Playwright sk Dramatik fi N ytelm kirjailija sv Dramatiker ta ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Saleem is a Palestinian American playwright, actor and dancer based in Los Angeles , California , United States . He was the recipient of a 1996 GLAAD Harvey Fierstein Award for Best Original Writing for his semi autobiographical play Salam Shalom A Tale Of Passion . As a dancer, Saleem developed his own style which incorporates belly dancing , Romani people gypsy movements, flamenco and jazz to produce what he calls free style belly dancing . External links http www.antiwar.com orig austin.php?articleid 1450 Palestinian Born Playwright Offers Insight and Hope for the Peace in the Middle East September 9, 2003 Article on Saleem by Michael Austin. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Saleem ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Saleem Category Palestinian actors Category Palestinian dramatists and playwrights Category American dramatists and playwrights Category Living people dance stub ... more details
Euphorion was an Athens Attic tragic playwright. He was the son of the Attic playwright Aeschylus . ref name opera cite book title Opera from the Greek studies in the poetics of appropriation author Ewans, M. chapter Medee Benoit Hoffman and Luigi Cherubini page 55 year 2007 publisher Ashgate Publishing isbn 9780754660996 ref In the Dionysia of 431 BCE, Euphorion won 1st prize, defeating both Sophocles who took 2nd prize and Euripides , who took 3rd prize with a tetralogy that includes the extant play Medea Euripides Medea . ref name opera ref cite book title The complete idiot s guide to classical mythology author Osborn, K. & Burges, D. page year 1998 publisher Penguin isbn 9780028623856 ref References reflist Category Ancient Greek poets Category 5th century BC people Category Ancient Greek dramatists and playwrights Category Ancient Athenians Category 5th century BC writers Category Tragic poets ... more details
Richard Huggett born 1929 is a playwright. Possibly his best known play is The First Night of Pygmalion . External links http www.doollee.com PlaywrightsH HuggettRichard.htm guide to his plays Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Huggett, Richard ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1929 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Huggett, Richard Category English dramatists and playwrights Category 1929 births Category Living people playwright stub ... more details
otherpersons Charles Smith Charles Smith is an African American African United States American playwright born in Chicago . Many of his Play theatre plays consider politics political and history historical themes from an African American perspective. He is playwright in residence for Indiana Repertory Theatre , which commissioned his plays Les Trois Dumas and Sister Carrie , after the novel by Terre Haute, Indiana born Theodore Dreiser . External links http www.csplays.com Homepage of Charles Smith Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Smith, Charles ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Smith, Charles Category Year of birth missing living people Category Living people Category People from Chicago, Illinois Category African American writers Category American dramatists and playwrights US playwright stub ... more details
About David Young, the Canadian playwright other David Youngs David Young disambiguation David Samuel D Arcy Young born 17 July 1946 Oakville, Ontario is a Canada Canadian playwright , novelist , and screenwriter . ref http www.chbooks.com biographies david young ref Born in Oakville, Ontario Oakville , Ontario , Young studied at the University of Western Ontario . He is the author of seven plays, two novels and several screenplays and teleplays. Two of his plays, Inexpressible Island and Glenn , have been nominated for multiple Canadian drama awards. The play, Fire play Fire , received four Dora Mavor Moore Awards as well as the Chalmers Toronto Drama Bench Award. Young is a founding director of the Writers Trust of Canada , and a trustee of the Griffin Poetry Prize Griffin Prize for Excellence in Poetry . Plays Love Is Strange 1985 , a theatrical study of the life and times of Robert Kieling, the star struck farmer from Saskatchewan who has spent his adult life in mental institutions because he believes he and singer Anne Murray are in love. Fire play Fire 1986 , a political Musical theatre musical inspired by cousins Jimmy Swaggart and Jerry Lee Lewis , co written with Paul Ledoux. The play received four Dora Mavor Moore Awards as well as the Chalmers Toronto Drama Bench Award. Glenn 1992 , a theatrical portrait of pianist Glenn Gould . Inexpressible Island 1997 , a play about six men marooned in an ice cave in Antarctica . An Enemy of the People 2001 , an adaptation of Henrik ... ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Canadian playwright DATE OF BIRTH 17 July 1946 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Young, David Category 1946 births Young, David Canadian playwright Category Living people Young, David Canadian playwright Category Canadian novelists Young, David Canadian playwright Category Canadian dramatists and playwrights Young, David Canadian playwright Category University of Western Ontario alumni Young, David Canadian playwright Category People from ... more details
Russell Ellis Hunter 1929 1996 was a writer, playwright, and composer based in Denver, Colorado . He was best known for writing the story for the movie The Changeling film The Changeling . External links imdb name id 0403028 name Russell Hunter Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Hunter, Russell ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1929 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1996 PLACE OF DEATH Denver, Colorado DEFAULTSORT Hunter, Russell Category 1929 births Category 1996 deaths Category American dramatists and playwrights Category American composers playwright stub ... more details
Refimprove date August 2011 Notability date August 2011 Ryan Craig is a United Kingdom British playwright , notable for works including The Holy Rosenbergs 2011 . References http unitedagents.co.uk ryan craig http www.thejc.com arts theatre 20508 ryan craig owns i have write about jews http www.thejc.com arts theatre 46359 exposed stage british jews divisions over israel Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Craig, Ryan ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION British playwright DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Craig, Ryan Category Living people Category British Jews Category British dramatists and playwrights UK writer stub de Ryan Craig Dramatiker ... more details
About the American playwright the English playwright and screenwriter Brian Clark writer BLP sources date December 2009 Brian Burgess Clark is a full time playwright and playwright teacher. He is director of the Perry Mansfield School of Arts theater program in Steamboat Springs, Colorado . He was the wikt bicentennial bicentennial playwright for Worthington, Ohio in the summer of 2003. ref http www.worthington.org bicentennial events playwrightbio.cfm Worthington Bicentennial. The Sciotto Company Drama Playwright Bio ref Playwright career Early career Clark was engrossed in theater since high school as a student in Worthington, OH. He acted throughout high school, and in 12th grade he wrote his own play, No More Green Beans , a children s Musical theatre musical . Joel Haney, the school s choral music teacher assisted with the music and enlisted the school s drama teacher, Bronwynn Hopton to Theatrical producer produce the play. Later career Clark graduated from the University of Hawaii . Bronwynn Hopton recruited him to write the Worthington, Ohio, bicentennial play for the summer of 2003. In 2001 and 2002, he wrote The Scioto Company , named after the company started by James Kilbourne and the 99 founding settlers of Worthington, Ohio. He studied many historical documents and centered the play on Kilbourne s family life. Awards and nominations Clark won the 1996 William Inge Theater Festival New Voice in American Theatre Award . The Touch play The Touch won the 1999 Vermont Playwrights Award and the 1999 National Association of Speech and Dramatic Arts Best Play Award. Purple Hearts play Purple Hearts won the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award for Playwrighting and a Special Services Achievement Award from the United States Army . Pets , Part of the Family nominated for a 2000 Emmy Award Emmy . Ivory Alphabet won the 2000 Julie Harris Award. References Reflist External links http www.worthington.org bicentennial index.cfm Worthington Bicentennial Celebration Persondata Metadata ... more details
Ben Ellis is a playwright from Gippsland in Australia , now based in London . His significant works include Post Felicity 2001 , Falling Petals 2002 , a stage adaptation of Franz Kafka s The Metamorphosis 2005 , and more recently Poet No. 7 2006 and The Final Shot Theatre 503 Theatre503 , 2007 , both premiering in London. The Final Shot , about the television broadcast of a man s death, featured Susannah York . His latest play, http www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk transition archive 2010 thecaptive.php The Captive explores the folklore surrounding the supposed capture of a white woman by aboriginal people in East Gippsland. Ellis short play about the death of activist Rachel Corrie , Blindingly obvious facts , was featured in the 2007 Melbourne Top 30 season of the Short and Sweet short play competition. Awards Ellis was awarded the inaugural Malcolm Robertson Prize and the Patrick White Playwrights Award for Post Felicity the latter in 2000, before the play was produced, ref cite web url http www.sydneytheatre.com.au content.asp?cID 36 title Patrick White Awards publisher Sydney Theatre Company accessdate 2008 01 04 ref under the title Who Are You, Mr James? . He was also the recipient of the Wal Cherry Play of the Year Award in 2002 for Falling Petals . External links http parachuteofaplaywright.blogspot.com Parachute of a Playwright Ellis blog http www.currency.com.au search.aspx?type author&author Ben Ellis Ellis plays at Currency Press References references Persondata NAME Ellis, Ben ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Australia n playwright DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH Australia DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Ellis, Ben Category Year of birth missing living people Category Australian dramatists and playwrights Category Australian expatriates in the United Kingdom Category Living people Australia writer stub Playwright stub ... more details
BLP sources date October 2011 Michael Wynne is an English people English playwright born in Birkenhead on 3 August 1972 Citation needed date October 2011 . While reading a Politics degree in London, he entered a competition for new, young writers by the Royal Court Theatre . He won with his first play The Knocky an multi award winning comedy citation needed date October 2011 , set on a Birkenhead council estate. ref name Echo It was produced at the Royal Court in 1995 and subsequently performed at Liverpool s Everyman Theatre in 1997. In 2010, Wynne won the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy for The Priory play The Priory . ref name Echo Plays include 1995 The Knocky The Royal Court Theatre 1997 Too Cold For Snow The Prada Foundation 1999 Sell Out Frantic Assembly 2000 The Boy Who Left Home Lyric Theatre Hammersmith Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith 2002 The People Are Friendly The Royal Court Theatre 2005 Dirty Wonderland Frantic Assembly 2009 Tits Teeth Soho Theatre 2009 The Priory The Royal Court Theatre 2010 Rough Cuts The Royal Court Theatre References Reflist refs ref name Echo Cite news url http www.liverpoolecho.co.uk liverpool news local news 2010 03 23 birkenhead playwright michael wynne wins best new comedy at the olivier awards 100252 26088004 title Birkenhead playwright Michael Wynne wins best new comedy at the Olivier Awards newspaper Liverpool Echo publisher Trinity Mirror North West & North Wales date 2010 03 23 ref Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wynne, Michael ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Playwright DATE OF BIRTH 3 August 1972 PLACE OF BIRTH Birkenhead , England DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wynne, Michael Category British dramatists and playwrights Category 1972 births Category Living people Category People from Birkenhead ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Robert Dunlap 1766 1839 was an American artist, historian and playwright. He was born in Perth Amboy New Jersey on 1 February 1766. In his lifetime he wrote more than 60 plays. The majority of his plays were adaptations or translations from French or German works, although some were original several were based on American themes and had American characters. He was the first of a long line of dramatists of the American theater. Among his earliest works were The Father 1789 Andre 1798 The Stranger 1798 False Shame 1799 The Virgin of the Sun 1800 He continued produce plays until 1828. External links http www.wayneturney.20m.com dunlapwilliam.htm Robert Dunlap Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Dunlap, Robert ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1766 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1839 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Dunlap, Robert Category 1766 births Category 1839 deaths US playwright stub ... more details
About the playwright others John Herbert disambiguation John Herbert 13 October 1926 22 June 2001 was a Canada Canadian playwright. Best known for Fortune and Men s Eyes , he wrote 24 plays, six of which were published. External links imdb name name John Herbert id 0378572 http www.litencyc.com php speople.php?rec true&UID 5246 Literary Encyclopedia entry http www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com index.cfm?PgNm TCE&Params A1ARTA0001062 John Herbert entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Herbert, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 13 October 1926 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 22 June 2001 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Herbert, John Category 1926 births Category 2001 deaths Category Canadian dramatists and playwrights Category Gay writers Category LGBT writers from Canada Canada writer stub ... more details
John Willard November 28, 1885, San Francisco, California August 30, 1942, Los Angeles, California was an United States American playwright . His most famous work is The Cat and the Canary play The Cat and the Canary 1922 , a play that was made into the influential silent film of the The Cat and the Canary 1927 film same name in 1927. External links imdb name 0929616 John Willard I at the Internet Movie Database . Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Willard, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION American playwright DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1885 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1942 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Willard, John Category 1885 births Category 1942 deaths Category American dramatists and playwrights Category People from San Francisco, California US dramatist stub eo John Willard dramisto ... more details
Timothy Daly is an Australian playwright whose body of work includes the play that launched the career of Cate Blanchett ref http www.imdb.com name nm0000949 otherworks Cate Blanchett Other works at IMDb.com ref when she was awarded the Rosemount Newcomer Award and the Sydney Theatre Critics Circle for Kafka Dances in 1993. ref Cite web url http www.filmreference.com Actors and Actresses Ba Bo Blanchett Cate.html title Blanchett, Cate profile publisher Filmreference.com date accessdate 3 June 2010 ref Other plays written by Daly include BEACH 2006 , a quintessential Australian play, the story of a beach from sunrise to sunset, a smorgasbord of beach events in Australia s cultural memory ranging from Captain Arthur Phillip , through Gallipoli to Harold Holt and beyond as far as Asylum seeker s. His first play, The Don s Last Innings 1982 , is a modernist examination of a woman coerced into a lifetime of indulging her husband s fantasies of the Australian national game, cricket . ref Cite web url http www.doollee.com PlaywrightsD daly timothy.html title Timothy Daly complete guide to the Playwright, Plays, Theatres, Agent publisher Doollee.com date accessdate 3 June 2010 ref ref Cite web url http www.australiacouncil.gov.au research arts marketing audience development timothy daly playwright title Timothy Daly Playwright Australia Council for the Arts publisher Australia Council for the Arts date 13 November 2003 accessdate 3 June 2010 ref Daly wrote the libretto for Alan John s 2011 opera How to Kill your Husband and other handy household hints based on Kathy Lette s 2007 book of the same name the opera premiered at the Victorian Opera , conducted by Richard Gill conductor Richard Gill . ref http www.victorianopera.com.au www html 561 how to kill your husband.asp How to Kill your Husband and other handy household hints at the Victorian Opera ref References Reflist External ... DESCRIPTION Australian playwright DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT ... more details
about the lawyer and playwright the piano player and teacher Eleanor Wong musician Eleanor Wong is a writer and playwright in Singapore . Her plays have been produced in Singapore and regionally. She is best known for Invitation to Treat , her trilogy of plays centred around the experiences of the character Ellen Toh, a lesbian lawyer in Singapore. This comprised the plays Mergers and Accusations , Wills and Secession and Jointly and Severably . Wong also provided communications consultancy and held several top management portfolios within the television production arena. She has anchored a television current affairs show After Hours . Wong is also a trained lawyer and has worked as a prosecutor and an international finance lawyer. She is currently Director of the Legal Skills Programme at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law Law Faculty at the National University of Singapore . Wong won the Best Oralist Championship Round at the prestigious 1985 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition , where she was a member of the victorious NUS moot team.deadlink ref cite web title s 1985 Jessup Competition url http www.foj.org archives 1985.shtml accessdate 2008 01 19 s ref Plays Jackson on a Jaunt Block Sale Mergers and Accusations 1995 Wills and Secession 1996 Jointly and Severably The Campaign to Confer the Public Star on JBJ 2006, revised 2007 References & notes reflist External links http www.nus.edu.sg occ pressrel prcontent.php?id 020304c Bio details, National University of Singapore Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wong ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Singapore playwright DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wong Category Singaporean dramatists and playwrights Category Singaporean lawyers Category Singaporean people of Chinese descent Category Anglo Chinese School alumni Category National University of Singapore alumni Category Living people Singapore bio stub ... more details
Multiple issues refimprove December 2011 sections December 2011 This article is about the Scottish playwright. For other people named Tom McGrath, see Thomas McGrath . Tom McGrath born 23 October 1940 in Rutherglen , Glasgow , died 29 April 2009 ref http www.guardian.co.uk books 2009 may 01 obituary tom mcgrath poet The Guardian obituary ref was a Scotland Scottish playwright and jazz pianist. During the mid 1960s he was associated with the emerging UK underground culture, participating in Alexander Trocchi s Project Sigma , ref Edinburgh Review 70, 1985 ref working as features editor of Peace News , and becoming founding editor of the International Times . During the early 1970s he worked with Billy Connolly on The Great Northern Welly Boot Show . From 1974 to 1977 he was director of the Third Eye Centre named after the influence of Sri Chinmoy , an arts centre on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. During this time, he wrote the popular play Laurel and Hardy play Laurel and Hardy . In 1977 he worked with Jimmy Boyle artist Jimmy Boyle then recently released from the Special Unit at HM Prison Barlinnie Barlinnie jail on the play The Hardman . McGrath s autobiographical 1979 play The Innocent play The Innocent relates his drug use and addiction during the counter culture 1960s. In 1986 he wrote the script for a short film commissioned by COSLA and produced by Glasgow Film and Video Workshop. The film was written as a comedy drama and toured Scotland on a bus after being shown at the Edinburgh Film Festival. References reflist External links http scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com review.cfm?id 405802005 Scotland on Sunday article from April 2005 UK underground Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Macgrath, Tom ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 23 October 1940 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 29 April 2009 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Macgrath, Tom Category ... Scottish dramatists and playwrights UK playwright stub Scotland writer stub it Tom McGrath nl ... more details
Dominic Allen born 2 November 1986, Stafford , England is a British theatre actor and playwright, and one of four company directors of the theatre collective Belt Up Theatre . ref http www.britishtheatre.com profile BeltUpTheatre Belt Up Theatre s Profile on British Theatre website ref He was educated at the University of York between 2006 and 2009 in Linguistics and English Literature . Stage plays Odyssey 2010 after Homer . Lorca is Dead 2010 at York Theatre Royal , telling the story of Federico Garcia Lorca as told by the Surrealists of the Paris Group. The Trial 2009 after Kafka The Oresteia 2009 after Aeschylus with James Wilkes theatre James Wilkes ref http www.britishtheatreguide.info reviews oresteia rev.htm British Theatre Guide Review of The Oresteia ref Morbid Curiosity 2008 Profile of a Lunatic 2001 References Reflist External links http www.doollee.com PlaywrightsA allen dominic j.html Doollee guide to Playwright and Plays http www.guardian.co.uk culture 2009 aug 10 the trial fringe review Lyn Gardner s review of The Trial , The Guardian , 10 August 2009 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Allen, Dominic ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION British stage actor, dramatist and playwright DATE OF BIRTH 2 November 1986 PLACE OF BIRTH Stafford, Staffordshire, England, UK DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Allen, Dominic Category Living people Category British theatre directors Category British dramatists and playwrights Category 1986 births Category Alumni of the University of York Category People from Stafford ... more details
Portal LGBT Mark Savage born September 19, ???? is an American playwright, songwriter, and theatre director. He specializes in Gay Musical Theatre and is associated with the Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles. His coming out musical The Ballad Of Little Mikey premiered in 1994 and has had productions in a dozen US cities. He wrote a song for Naked Boys Singing , an Off Broadway Musical Review that has run for 6 years. He curated a reading series called Queering the Classics, which in 2001 spawned Pinafore , a gay adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan s HMS Pinafore . Pinafore won Best Musical at the LA Weekly LA Weekly Theatre Awards and Best Production at the 2003 New York International Fringe Festival and the Original cast recording was released by Belva Records. External links http www.celebrationtheatre.com Celebration Theatre http www.amazon.com gp product B000000N5T The Ballad Of Little Mikey http www.nakedboyssinging.com Naked Boys Singing http www.amazon.com gp product B000063TKR Pinafore Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Savage, Mark ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Savage, Mark Category American dramatists and playwrights Category American songwriters Category American musical theatre directors Category Year of birth missing living people Category Living people US playwright stub ... more details
Refimprove date August 2009 Edith Carter was an England English stage actor and playwright, who was active in the 1920s 30s. She was also the aunt of the mystery and detective novel author Emery Bonett and the sister in law of author and playwright Winifred Carter author Winifred Carter . Plays Treasures in Heaven 1912 Lass o Laughter cowritten with Nan Marriott Watson 1922 &ndash Queen s Theatre Educating a Husband 1923 &ndash Southend Rep Theatre Certified Imam 1924 &ndash Theatre Royal, Castleford Uncle Hiram Here cowritten with Florence Bates 1925 &ndash Q Theatre The Lovely Liar 1927 The Two Mrs. Camerons. A play in three acts cowritten with Winifred Carter &ndash Q Theatre, London and Townley Street Sunday School by the CS Players, January 1945 published 1936 1937 US Wanted a Wife. A Play in Three Acts cowritten with Winifred Carter &ndash Q Theatre, London published 1936 1937 US possibly originally published 1922 or 1926 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Carter, Edith ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Carter, Edith Category English stage actors Category English dramatists and playwrights Category Year of birth missing Category Year of death missing England writer stub ... more details
Other persons Colin Morris Colin Morris disambiguation Colin Morris Colin Morris 4 February 1916 31 March 1996 was a List of British playwrights British playwright , screenwriter and actor. His best known work was the filmscript for Reluctant Heroes 1951 . As an actor he appeared in the 1957 film The Silken Affair . Reluctant Heroes was originally a play, published in 1951 by the English Theatre Guild . Other plays of Morris s include Woman at large English Theatre Guild, 1950 The Terrible Crime of Mr Bat children s drama Samuel French, 1950 Don t Bank On It Missing, Believed Married English Theatre Guild, 1951 Italian Love Story English Theatre Guild, 1955 This Marriage Business English Theatre Guild, 1956 Published screenplays include Quiet Revolution documentary drama External links http www.allmovie.com artist colin morris 179738 Brief biography http www.doollee.com PlaywrightsM morris colin.html Entry for Morris in the Doolee theatrical database Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Morris, Colin ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 4 February 1916 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 31 March 1996 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Morris, Colin Category British dramatists and playwrights Category British screenwriters Category 1916 births Category 1996 deaths UK playwright stub ... more details
for the American chef Julia Child Infobox writer for more information see Template Infobox writer doc name Julia Childs image birth name Julia Kay Childs birth date Birth date 1962 03 6 df y birth place St. Albans , United Kingdom occupation Playwright, Director nationality United Kingdom British period 2007 Present awards Winner African performance 2009, Joint second place African performance 2010 see Template Infobox writer Julia Childs born 1962 in St. Albans is a British playwright who has won first and second place awards internationally. Her debut play Home Sweet Soweto Home won first prize in the BBC African Performance competition. Professor Wole Soyinka awarded Childs joint second place in African Performance 2010 with The Coffin Factory. ref http www.bbc.co.uk worldservice programmes 2010 07 100708 african performance 2010 the winners.shtml BBC African Performance 2010 winners ref Both plays were produced by BBC and broadcast on the BBC World Service. References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Childs, Julia ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 6 March 1962 PLACE OF BIRTH St. Albans , United Kingdom DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Childs, Julia Category Living people Category 1962 births theatre stub england stub ... more details
Ben Brown is a British playwright. When interviewed about The Promise 2010 play The Promise , his 2010 play about the Balfour Declaration of 1917 Balfour Declaration , he said that he had grown up in North London with a non observant Jewish father. ref http www.thisislocallondon.co.uk leisure 5002952.Playwright creates historical drama out of a political crisis ref Works Larkin With Women , 2000 a portrait of Philip Larkin and his love lives which won the TMA Awards TMA Best New Play award that year All Things Considered , 1996 a black comedy about philosophy and suicide. The Promise 2010 play The Promise 2010 , about the Balfour Declaration Three Days in May , 2011 a drama concentrating on Winston Churchill s darkest hours in the early parts of the Second World War. Sources references http www.orangetreetheatre.co.uk The Promise Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Brown, Ben ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Brown, Ben Category British dramatists and playwrights Category Living people UK playwright stub ... more details
unreferenced date December 2011 Lin Chen was a playwright and one of the important early pioneers of Singapore theatre. Chen was born in Singapore in 1919, his Alma mater General term alma maters were Tao Nan Primary School and The Chinese High School Singapore The Chinese High School . Chen worked in the comics and wood carving industries from 1937 until he joined World Bookshop in the 1950s. After his retirement in 1980, he joined the People s Association as an instructor for drama groups. Chen s theatrical training was accumulated from years of experience. He joined an amateur drama group soon after his high school graduation and he formed one with a few friends during the war. Writing short stories and essays under different pseudonyms, he also wrote scripts for local radio stations and Rediffusion. In addition, he participated actively in directing and writing for the theatres. From its inception in 1955, Chen was the resident playwright for the Singapore Arts Theatre and directed 162 dramas from 1954 to 1991. His work The Woman Who Broke the Mirror was included in the local secondary school curriculum. Lin Chen was awarded the Cultural Medallion in 1982. He died on 29 August 2004. Category Singaporean artists ... more details
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