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.

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 ).

Playwright and theatre director, Ratan Thiyam, stage his production based on the poem as closing production of 4th Bharat Rang Mahotsav in 2002.

Playwright Eric Coble's 2004 stage adaptation was broadcast on 16 November 2007 on WCPN 90. 3 FM in Cleveland.

Playwright Matthew Hancock is the author of several stage adaptations, including Window, based on the short story by Haruki Murakami, and The Body Artist, taken from the novella by Don DeLillo.

* 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.

" 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.

In 2003, North Carolina Playwright Keith Smith wrote a one act musical play entitled " My Name is Johnny Appleseed ", which is presented to school children to show that the true story of John Chapman is just as interesting as the mythical figure, who is shrouded in legend.

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.

* 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 Max Sparber's play The Older Gentleman set in rural Nebraska in the early ' 60s, includes a scene in which college students are shown Boys Beware in class.

In 1973, Tesich won the Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Playwright for the play Baba Goya, which is also known under the title Nourish the Beast.

" 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, an African-American ghetto.

Playwright Tom Stoppard used this phrase as the title of a 1981 farce, On the Razzle, which he adapted from an earlier play by Johann Nestroy.

Awards include an Emmy nomination, the American Alliance for Theatre and Education Distinguished Play Award for Best Adaptation, the AT & T Onstage Award, National Theatre Conference Playwriting Award, an NEA Playwright in Residence Grant, the AATE Distinguished Play Award for Best Adaptation, two TCG Extended Collaboration Grants, Aristophanes Award for Best Off-Broadway Comedy, First Place in the Southwest Festival of New Plays, Heideman Finalist for Actors Theatre Louisville, Best of the CATCO Shorts Festival, the Cleveland Arts Prize, a Cuyahoga Arts and Culture Creative Workforce Fellowship, and four Ohio Arts Individual Excellence Awards.

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.

Martin and Tichenor's second book, " Reduced Shakespeare: The Attention Impaired Reader's Guide to the World's Best Playwright ( abridged )" was published by Hyperion in 2006.

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

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

Diary of a Mad Playwright: Perilous Adventures on the Road with Mary Martin and Carol Channing, about production of the play " Legends " ( Dutton )

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

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

* The Playwright ( with Daren White, 2010 )

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.

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

Playwright John Guare became interested in Hampton's story through his friendship with two of his duped hosts — Osborn and Inger Elliott, who were outraged to find " David Poitier " in bed with another man the morning after they let him into their home.

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 Green, however, was not happy with the more hopeful, upbeat ending that the Group had imposed on his brooding work.

* Playwright Jean Giraudoux combined tragedy, humor and fantasy in Intermezzo ( 1937 ), where a timid ghost revolutionizes a small town, and Ondine ( 1939 ) about a water sprite who falls in love with a mortal.

National Public Radio called Mee the " Public-Domain Playwright " in 2000 and credited him with touching " a raw cultural nerve " by making his work freely available.

Playwright George Bernard Shaw was impressed with his acting, casting him in the first production of Man and Superman, and subsequently in five more of his plays.

Each year VSA sponsors many notable programs such as the " International Young Soloists Program ," " Playwright Discovery " program, Call for Children's art, internships across the nation for students with disabilities.

Playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan was also descended from this family, while othor reputable Virginian's from the nineteenth century were Thomas Fitzpatrick a noted London physician, and entrepreneur Joseph Rathborne the son of local mill owner Henry Talbot Rathborne, Joseph went to America and created the world's biggest lumber mill with the Rathborne Cypress Lumber Company in Louisiana.

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.

She is an Emerging Voice with the California Indian Storytellers Association and a mentor for the Native Voices Youth Playwright Project.

In 1955, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll gained first prize in the Playwright Advisory Board Competition with Oriel Gray ’ s The Torrents and was subsequently presented by the Union Theatre.

* Nourish the Beast, also performed under the title Baba Goya, Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Playwright, 1973

He also published a book on his work Playwright at Work just after World War II.

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

The Georgia Straight's, Colin Thomas wrote, Playwright Thompson also manipulates our relationship to the material by letting us laugh.

Playwright Jonathan Harvey also taught there.