Playwright Patrick Marber, whose early collaborations with Coogan included The Day Today and being the principal writer of both radio and TV versions of Knowing Me, Knowing You ... with Alan Partridge, has also been working on the script, but the pair put their plans on hold following the London bombings, for fear the screenplay would appear in bad taste.

* Alan Jay Lerner ** ( 1918-1986 ) Composer, Playwright (** He was cremated here and his ashes given to family.

Playwright Alan Bennett was particularly repulsed by Witchfinder.

* Mark Alan Bedell, Playwright, Director, Stunt Coordinator, Fight Director

* Playwright Charles Bennett was born in Shoreham-by-sea in 1899.

Playwright Tom Stoppard made a public denunciation, and Brian Sewell ( art critic of the Evening Standard ) has consistently been hostile, as has David Lee, the editor of Jackdaw.

* Playwright Judy Upton was born in Shoreham-by-Sea in 1966 and has written several plays associated with Brighton Beach.

Playwright Shirley Gee has written two fictional dramatisations of Snell's life: a radio play, Against the Wind ( 1988 ) and a stage play, Warrior ( 1989 ).

He has written many critical books, including A Century of Hero-Worship, The Playwright as Thinker, Bernard Shaw, What Is Theatre ?, The Life of the Drama, Theatre of War, Brecht Commentaries, and Thinking About the Playwright.

Playwright Greenberg has stated that one of the compulsions for creating a baseball play was his complete immersion into the sport in 1999 after following the New York Yankees ' ( then -) record 114-win season the previous year, beginning with David Wells ' perfect game.

Playwright David Lan has been the theatre's artistic director since 2000.

The theatre company strives to be integral part of the cultural life of the city, and has sought to develop new writing through its biennial Corcadorca Playwright Award, and by commissioning new work from more established writers (" Disco Pigs ", Enda Walsh, and " Bruen's Twist ", Eamonn Sweeney ).

Bogart has won two Best Director Obie Awards, one for No Plays No Poetry But Philosophical Reflections Practical Instructions Provocative Opinions and Pointers From a Noted Critic and Playwright ( 1988 ) based on the theories of Bertolt Brecht and the other for Paula Vogel ’ s The Baltimore Waltz ( 1990 ).

Ridley has won both the Evening Standards Most Promising Newcomer to British Film and Most Promising Playwright Awards.

* Playwright / Composer Lionel Bart lived the latter part of his life in an apartment on Churchfield Road, citing the area as the closest thing he could find to the community feel of the East London " of old ".

* Playwright August Wilson lived in Hazelwood as a teenager

Playwright, writer and theatre critic Paul Griffiths also lived and worked here.

Sloane tied for first in the Variety Critics ' Poll for " Best New Play " and Orton came second for " Most Promising Playwright.

* 1593 – Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.

Playwright Jane Taylor, responsible for the acclaimed Ubu and the Truth Commission, found fault with the Commission's lopsided influence:

The term playwright appears to have been coined by Ben Jonson in his Epigram 49, To Playwright, as an insult, to suggest a mere tradesman fashioning works for the theatre.

* American Playwright Tennessee Williams's older sister Rose received a lobotomy which left her incapacitated for life ; the episode is said to have inspired characters and motifs in certain of his works.

* Jane Wagner – Playwright and actress who wrote The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

Playwright Tennessee Williams became an admirer of her acting and wrote The Rose Tattoo specifically for her to star in, a role for which she received her first Oscar in 1955.

Janice Johnston directed the same play for In Good Company at the Aeolian Hall in October 2006 and in November 2006 “ Country ” travelled to Jakarta, Indonesia to the Women Playwright ’ s International conference.

Her play Comfort me with Apples won the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright award in 2005, and was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award.

Playwright and lyricist David Lindsay-Abaire won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Rabbit Hole.

* In the film Star Trek Generations, the villain Tolian Soran quotes from Schwartz's poem, “ Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day ”, telling Captain Jean-Luc Picard, “ They say time is the fire in which we burn .” Playwright Philip Ridley uses the same line as one of the epigraphs for his 2012 play Shivered.

Playwright Àngel Guimerà was even nominated a record 21 times for the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he never won, due to controversy about the political significance of the gesture.

In 1980 Hughes won the London Theatre Critics Award for ' Most Promising Playwright ' for his play Commitments.

Playwright A. Stein who in his Last Parade play used several of Vysotsky ’ s songs, was chastised by a Ministry of Culture official for " providing a tribune for this anti-Soviet scum ".

Playwright, Westminster Parliament member, and son of Thomas, Richard Brinsley Sheridan was born on this street at number 12 in 1751 ; Brinsley Sheridan's works include The Critics and A School for Scandal.

I decided to make that weekend all about studying my body issues ”— and went on to include another frequently cited reaction: “ I ’ ve always used Mich as a place to charge my batteries for the rest of the year, planning my life around being there in August and learning my lessons, both fun and hard .” Playwright Carolyn Gage would later give voice to another key appeal motivating campers to return: “ At Michfest, she can experience a degree of safety that is not available to any woman any time anywhere except at the festival.

*" Mountain Language " at HaroldPinter. org – The Official Website for the International Playwright Harold Pinter.

* 1895 – Playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of " committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons " and sentenced to serve two years in prison.

Playwright Beth Henley, who had been encouraged by friends four years earlier to put her script into production, would later win a Pulitzer Prize for the play, the first of several successful efforts.

He became known as " The Playboy Playwright " and specialized in comedies and farces, some of them with material considered risqué at the time.

Playwright Tennessee Williams said of its actors: " They act from the inside out.

Playwright Alfred Uhry collaborated with Martha Clarke on " Angel Reapers " and used Shaker texts as source material.

" Playwright Arthur Miller commented that Muni " was pursued by a fear of failure.

Playwright Shaun Duggan's stage drama William, Alex Broun's one-man show Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths, Douglas Coupland's 1998 novel Girlfriend in a Coma, Andrew Collins ' autobiography Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Mark Spitz's novel How Soon is Never ?, the pop band Shakespear's Sister, the defunct art-punk group Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the Polish filmmaker Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's short fictional film about two Polish fans of The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs, are all inspired by or named after songs or albums by The Smiths.

In 2007, he produced the play, Shakespeare's Will by Canadian Playwright Vern Thiessen.

* Arthur C. Sidman Playwright and vaudevillian.

Playwright Charles MacArthur, co-author of the play The Front Page was a former City Press reporter ; several of the characters in the play were based on City Press personalities, notably the skittish managing editor Larry Mulay.

* Playwright Erik Jackson acquired King's consent to stage a non-musical spoof, which premiered Off-Broadway in 2006 with female impersonator Keith Levy ( also known as Sherry Vine ) in the lead role.

* Stanley Weintraub ( ed. l ), The Playwright and the Pirate, Bernard Shaw and Frank Harris: A Correspondence.

In 2010 The Playwright, a collaboration with Daren White, was published.

" Playwright August Wilson used the term " ghetto " in Ma Rainey ’ s Black Bottom ( 1984 ) and Fences ( 1987 ), both of which draw upon the author ’ s experience growing up in the Hill district of Pittsburgh, a black ghetto.

Playwright Martin McDonagh and his brother, writer / director John Michael McDonagh, live in Camberwell.

" Playwright Terrence McNally, a gay man, received death threats when it was played in the United States.

Actress / Playwright / lyricist Gretchen Kiger-Cryer, mother of actor Jon Cryer, was born and raised in Dunreith.

* Anthony E. Gallo – Playwright.