A playwright , also known as a dramatist , is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama . These works are usually written to be performed in front of a live audience by actors. They may also be closet drama s or literary works written using dramatic forms but not meant for performance. 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 ..., the playwright was poeisis the act of making plays. So the poet had a different connotation than it does ... 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 ..., place, and time. This meant that the playwright had to construct the play so that its virtual time ... structural tool, and can let the playwright know exactly how much a particular character ... to the Dramatists Guild , the playwright has the final say on a production. Since the play remains the property of the playwright, no changes may be made without authorization. In films, by contrast ... in the same manner as the playwright. However, in cases where the playwright wants to have a work ... some consultation with the playwright. Nevertheless, in re productions of an already staged work, any script changes or alterations need the approval of the playwright. See also List of playwrights Play ... Based Approach to Playwriting Routledge 2001 . External links wiktionary playwright Wikiversity Collaborative ... for emerging writers , Snodger, an Award winning Australian playwright offers advice Category Dramatists ... ro Dramaturg ru simple Playwright sk Dramatik fi N ytelm kirjailija sv Dramatiker tr Oyun ... 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. DEFAULTSORT Saleem Category Palestinian actors Category Palestinian dramatists and playwrights Category American dramatists and playwrights Category Living people dance stub ... 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 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
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 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Hunter, Russell Category 1929 births Category 1996 deaths Category American dramatists and playwrights Category American composers 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 Ibsen s play. Clout 2001 , a comedy about men, sex and power. No Great Mischief 2004 , an adaptation ... 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
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
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 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 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
Ben Brown is a British playwright. When interviewed about The Promise 2010 play The Promise , his 2010 play about the 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 Sources references http www.orangetreetheatre.co.uk The Promise DEFAULTSORT Brown, Ben UK playwright stub category British dramatists and playwrights category Living people ... more details
for the Any Dream Will Do contestant Ben James Ellis Ben Ellis is an award winning 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, 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
notability Biographies date November 2010 File Timothy Daly 1a.jpg thumb 200px Timothy Daly is an Australia n playwright whose considerable body of work includes the play that launched the career of Cate Blanchett ref http www.imdb.com name nm0000949 otherworks ref when she was awarded the Rosemount Newcomer Award , ref Cite web url http www.filmreference.com Actors and Actresses Ba Bo Blanchett Cate.html title Cate Blanchett Actors and Actresses Films as Actress , Publications publisher Filmreference.com date accessdate 2010 06 03 ref Sydney Theatre Critics Circle , for Kafka Dances , 1993. Other plays written by Timothy Daly include Beach play 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 , 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 2010 06 03 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 Australiacouncil.gov.au date 2003 11 13 accessdate 2010 06 03 ref ref Cite web url http www.filmreference.com Actors and Actresses Ba Bo Blanchett Cate.html ixzz0gF5bZcer title Cate Blanchett Actors and Actresses Films as Actress , Publications publisher Filmreference.com date accessdate 2010 06 03 ref References Reflist External links Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Daly, Timothy ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Da ... more details
Elaine Murphy is an award winning ref http www.gunanua.com little gem wins best of fringe at edinburgh 2009 Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award ref Irish playwright. Her play Little Gem won the Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award in 2009 and has been in continuous production since 2008. Reflist DEFAULTSORT Murphy, Elaine Category Irish dramatists and playwrights Category Living people Category People from County Dublin ... 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
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
Tom Griffin is a playwright . The Boys Next Door play The Boys Next Door is his most successful work. His other plays include Amateurs , Einstein and The Polar Bear , Pasta , and Mrs. Sedgewick s Head . References http www.doollee.com PlaywrightsG griffin tom.html doollee.com, the Playwrights Database http www.cvnc.org reviews 2005 012005 BoysNext.html The Boys Next Door Review DEFAULTSORT Griffin, Tom theat bio stub Category American dramatists and playwrights Category Year of birth missing living people Category Living people Category Place of birth missing living people ... more details
For other persons named Tony Marchant, see Tony Marchant disambiguation Tony Marchant born 11 July 1959, East End of London East London is a United Kingdom British playwright and television dramatist. In 1982 he won the London Critics Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright for The Lucky Ones and Raspberry . In 1999 he won the British Academy Television Awards Dennis Potter Award for services to television. His television work includes the acclaimed Holding On 1997 , Never, Never , starring John Simm and Take Me Home TV series Take Me Home . He has also written the comedy film Different for Girls . He appeared on University Challenge BBC Two in a special actors versus writers episode in January 2006. In 2007 he wrote an ITV series, Whistleblowers , for ITV. And an award winning single film, The Mark of Cain film Mark of Cain for C4. In 2008, David Tennant starred in a BBC1 single film, Recovery TV drama Recovery , in which Marchant explored the aftermath of brain injury on a man s life and family. He is currently writing Garrow s Law for BBC1 and a BBC film The Dig film The Dig . Marchant has inspired a new generation of writers, most notably, Danny Brocklehurst and Jed Mercurio , who both cite him as an inspiration. He was featured in the writers section of the Broadcast magazine Broadcast magazine Hot 100 2006. He lives in London . External links http media.guardian.co.uk site story 0,14173,1670582,00.html Are you sitting uncomfortably , by Danny Brocklehurst, The Guardian , December 19, 2005. http www.imdb.com name nm0545454 Tony Marchant at the Internet Movie Database http www.guardian.co.uk culture 2010 jan 11 tony marchant screenwriter playwright Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Marchant, Tony ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1959 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Marchant, Tony Category 1959 births Category British television writers Category Living people UK writer stub fr Tony Marchant ... more details
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 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 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Macgrath, Tom Category 1940 births Category 2009 deaths Category People from Glasgow Category Scottish jazz musicians Category Scottish dramatists and playwrights UK playwright stub Scotland writer stub nl Tom McGrath ... more details
Other persons William Gibson Image William Gibson playwright .jpg thumb William Gibson 1964 William Gibson November 13, 1914 November 25, 2008 was an United States American playwright and novelist . He graduated from the City College of New York in 1938. He was of Irish people Irish , French people French , Germans German , Dutch people Dutch and Russians Russian ancestry. ref http www.guardian.co.uk stage 2009 feb 11 obituary william gibson playwright ObituaryWilliam GibsonLate blooming writer best known for his play The Miracle Worker ref Gibson s most famous play is The Miracle Worker play The Miracle Worker 1959 , the story of Helen Keller s childhood education, which won him the Tony Award for Best Play after he adapted it from his original 1957 telefilm script. ref name nyt obit David Carr. http www.nytimes.com 2008 11 28 theater 28gibs.html? r 1&scp 5&sq William 20Gibson&st cse William Gibson, playwright, dies at 94, The New York Times , November 27, 2008, page A34. ref ref name reuters http www.reuters.com article peopleNews idUSTRE4AR66520081128 Miracle Worker playwright William Gibson dies, November 28, 2008. ref He adapted the work again for the 1962 in film 1962 The Miracle Worker film film version , receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay the same actresses who previously had won Tony Award s for their performances in the stage version, Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke , received Academy Awards for the film version as well. ref name nyt obit Arthur Penn directed both the stage and film versions. His Broadway debut had been with Two for the Seesaw in 1958, a critically acclaimed two character play which starred Henry Fonda and, in her own Broadway debut, Anne Bancroft. It was directed by Arthur Penn . Gibson published a chronicle of the vicissitudes ... iobdb William Gibson http artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com 2008 11 27 miracle worker playwright dies ?hp Miracle Worker Playwright Dies , The New York Times ArtsBeat blog, November 27, 2008 Persondata Metadata ... more details
For the other person with the same name whose occupations included screenwriter, see Eugene Walter Eugene Walter 1921 1998 Infobox person name Eugene Walter birth date Birth date 1874 11 27 death date Death date and age 1941 09 26 1874 11 27 birth place Cleveland death place Hollywood spouse Charlotte Walker actress Charlotte Walker Eugene Walter November 27, 1874 d. September 26, 1941 was a playwright. Biography He was born on November 27, 1874 in Cleveland . He was married to actress Charlotte Walker actress Charlotte Walker , but the marriage ended in divorce sometime before 1930, when he secretly married Mary Kissel in Mexico. She was a New York artists model. ref cite news first last authorlink coauthors title Playwright and Mary Kissel Were Married in April, a Month After His Interlocutory Divorce. url http select.nytimes.com gst abstract.html?res FB0914FA355E1B728DDDA80A94D1405B808FF1D3 quote Examination of Mexican marriage records at Mexicali, Lower California, today confirmed Los Angeles reports that Eugene Walter, playwright, married Mary Kissel, New York artists model, on April 26. work New York Times date September 21, 1930 accessdate 2009 02 02 ref He died on September 26, 1941 in Hollywood . ref cite news first last authorlink coauthors title Eugene Walter, Dramatist, Dies url http pqasb.pqarchiver.com latimes access 413911311.html?dids 413911311 413911311&FMT CITE&FMTS CITE AI&date Sep 27 2C 1941&author &pub Los Angeles Times&desc Eugene Walter 2C Dramatist 2C Dies&pqatl google quote Author of Paid in Full and Many Other Plays Succumbs in Hollywood work Los Angeles Times date September 27, 1941 accessdate 2009 02 02 ref References reflist External links Portal Biography IMDb name 0910021 Eugene Walter ibdb 5470 Eugene Walter Find a Grave 3762049 Eugene Walter Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Walter, Eugene ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1874 PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1941 PL ... more details
Infobox Writer name Roy Williams image See infobox image policy for guidelines imagesize caption birthdate birth date and age 1968 01 05 birthplace Fulham , London deathdate deathplace nationality spouse children occupation Playwright period influences influenced awards website portaldisp y Roy Samuel Williams , Order of the British Empire OBE born 1968 is an award winning England English playwright ref Playwright Profile http www.doollee.com PlaywrightsW williams roy.html ref . Williams has many awards including the George Devine Award for Lift Off , the 2001 Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright for his play Clubland , the 2002 BAFTA Award for Best Schools Drama for Offside and 2004 South Bank Show Arts Council Decibel Award. Most recently his play Sucker Punch was nominated for the Evening Standard Award for BEst New Play and the Olivier Award for Best New Play 2011. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE in the 2008 Birthday Honours ref http www.londontheatre.co.uk londontheatre news ju8 queensbirthdayhonourslist333162.htm ref . Early life Williams was born and brought up in London , Notting Hill , the youngest of four siblings in a single parent home with his mother working as a nurse after his father moved to United States America . Williams decided to work in theatre after being tutored by the writer Don Kinch when he was failing in school and attending some of his rehearsals in a black theatrical company Kinch ran. After leaving school at 18 he did various jobs including working in McDonalds and in a props warehouse. He was 25 when he took a theatre writing degree at Rose Bruford College and has worked ever since in writing ref Early Life, The Guardian http www.guardian.co.uk stage 2008 feb 10 theatre1 ref Work His plays include Sucker Punch play Sucker Punch 2010 Royal Court Theatre downstairs ref Sucker Punch http www.royalcourttheatre.com whats on sucker punch ref Baby Girl 2007 , National Theatre part of the Connec ... 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 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
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